9.00 Opening Address From Conference Chair

9.10 Structuring Contracts In The Right Way To Ensure Minimal Costs To Your Hospital

• Outlining the need to work closely with your procurement department to maximise waste management cost savings
• Engaging contractors: knowing what they want in order to maximise your ability to save or be provided incentives
• Discussing the longevity of the contacts entered into: how long and with who?

Gregg Butler
Manager, Environment and Waste
ROYAL BRISBANE HOSPITAL

9.45 Understanding Cytotoxic Waste: Best Practice Handling Methodologies

• Aligning your health facility with best practice Cytotoxic Waste Management and Disposal.
• Reviewing your procedures: How can we manage the associated cost without compromising safety.
• Understanding the risk from an Organisations perspective- Transport and Responsible Disposal of Cytotoxic Waste

Perc Rowlands
Manager General Services
Peter Mac Cancer Centre

10.20 Engaging Your Contractors With A Solid Business Plan To Reduce Waste Management Costs: The Proactive Approach

• Recognising the need to be proactive in contractor negotiations: the first step to cost minimisation for your waste management strategies
• Assessing your hospitals strengths and catering for these in contractual negotiations
• Detailing the golden rule of hospital waste management: Treating waste as a commodity
• Gaining buy-in from each contract you enter into: do you engage environmental, procurement, medical and operational staff?

Brendan McGoven
Environmental Services Manager
WESLEY HOSPITAL

11.25 CASE STUDY: ROYAL DARWIN HOSPITAL - Outlining The Difficulties Of Tropic Hospital Waste Control

• Stepping through the differences of tropical waste management in 100% humidity
• Selecting the correct treatment procedures for the different types of waste: how do these differ from more southern hospitals?
• Reviewing the current waste management practices and identifying areas of improvement: what is inhibiting these initiatives from being rolled out now and what can be done to assist implement change?

Norm Hooton
Waste Manager
ROYAL DARWIN HOSPITAL

12.00 Engaging Suppliers To Reduce Volume Of Waste Coming Onto The Facility

• Recognising the need: minimising the waste your contractors bring onto the premises
• Devising a plan to reduce waste: how can your suppliers assist?
• Aligning your whole of hospital strategy with your key suppliers: working closely with your procurement department
• Reviewing your supplier selection criteria: ensuring procurement strategies and contracts cater for the costs incurred by the hospitals waste management strategies

Raelene Robinson
Waste Management Support Service Coordinator
THE QUEEN ELIZABETH HOSPITAL

12.35 Alternatives In The Future Of Clinical Waste Management

• Highlighting the pro’s and con’s of no incineration
• Devising a plan to move towards zero harmful immisions: What can you do?
• Reviewing your waste management strategies: Reducing your waste output

Greg Thompson
General Manager Sales & International Business Development
MEDIVAC LTD

2.10 PROCUREMENT POWER PANEL: Discussing How Procurement Of Services Can Assist Facilitate Best Practice At The Coal Face

• Describing the complexity of making the procurement decision: how to balance cost with service offered
• Compiling the necessary information needed to align your waste contract with your area / company objectives
• Implementing and managing contractual obligations across various sights: what is needed to maximise service to the individual hospitals

2.45 Discussing The Essentials Of Waste Management In Healthcare

• Educating your staff in avoiding the risks associated with handling and management of clinical and related waste.
• Advanced Resource Recovery from Hospital Waste: maximising your total waste management solution: a short case study
• Collecting and processing food organics from health facilities into saleable products

Simon Gardner Lee
General Manager, Marketing & Strategy
SITA ENVIRONMENTAL SOLUTIONS

3.05 CASE STUDY: Finding More Space To Maximise Recycling Capacities

• Recognising the need to change the current waste management practices: putting forward a business case for major change
• Compiling the necessary information in order to decipher the extent to which change can occur: communicating with all stakeholders
• Aligning change with the future direction of the hospital: moving towards best practice
• Engaging equipment suppliers to maximise storage space

Anne-Marie Kussulke
Coordinator Waste Management
MATER PRIVATE HOSPITAL BRISBANE

4.10 CASE STUDY: The New SA Procurement And Supply Chain Consolidation Project

• Outlining the vision of the new consolidation project: what will it look like?
• Discussing the project timeline: Phase 1 through to Phase 5
• Explaining the benefits to the states heath in regards to the project
• Outlining what the project will look like; how will the state interact with the market; how will they manage their contracts and what does the next 12 months hold?

Paul Smith
Manager Strategic Contracts
PROCUREMENT AND SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT SA HEALTH

4.45 PANEL DISCUSSION: Making Your Contracts Work For You

• Maximising your relationship with your contractors: opening the communication
• Discussing ways of being proactive: working towards a common goal
• Increasing your buying power: knowing what your contractual partner wants and entering into the appropriate contract