9.00 Opening Address From Conference Chair

9.10 Context And Rationale Of Waste Management In Healthcare

• Highlighting the relationship of legislation and accreditation in waste management
• Understanding exactly what is meant by sustainability in healthcare waste management: how can it be achieved
• Discussing the overall direction for waste management in the healthcare sector: where has the health sector come from and what can you expect in the future?

Trevor Thornton
Senior Lecturer, Waste Expert
DEAKIN UNIVERSITY

9.45 Establishing A Waste Management Strategy And Moving Towards Best Practice Quickly

• Recognising the potential to improve waste management processes: benefits of waste auditing
• Establishing a waste data collection process: determining the volumes generated and disposal costs incurred
• Developing a waste minimisation plan to accommodate findings and meet the requirements of stakeholders

Madeline Dorman
Conservation & Waste Management Officer, Environmental Services
AUSTIN HOSPITAL

10.20 Maximising Your Recycling Efforts: Perfecting Staff Training

Waste Segregation

• Maximising your knowledge of the possible recycling opportunities with the different types of waste produced by your hospital
• Discussing the “Know before you throw” initiative: Implementing new recycling initiatives and communicating these to the hospital staff

Waste Auditing

• Identifying where your recycling efforts can be improved
• Understanding what your staff currently does well and why?
• Outlining how to replicate the good behaviors and expand to new recycling initiatives

Cynthia Kiernan
Facility Manager
ROYAL MELBOURNE HOSPITAL

11.25 Environmental Compliance: Aligning Yourself With Best Practice

• Outlining the need for compliance at the coal face: setting a precedent at the hospital for the rest of the waste chain
• Discussing the relevant legislation: who does it affect and how to comply?
• Analysing best practice tips and tricks to move towards environmental and resource management best practice

Christian Pattison
Senior Environmental Health Officer – Waste
POPULATION HEALTH QUEENSLAND, QUEENSLAND HEALTH

12.00 Recycle And Reuse: The Western Hospital Case Study

• Outlining the scope of the drug tray project: to purchase and use reusable trays or single use trays
• Undertaking audits of theatre and ICU (intensive care unit) waste: a guideline to recycling plastics used in hospitals
• Recycling plastics from the operating suite, ICU etc.- in particular PVC: what can be achieved?
• Implementing change throughout the facility: understanding what changes have to be made throughout the facility
• Reviewing each initiative: discussing the positives and negatives of each option: how can these be rolled out in your facility

Dr Forbes McGain
Anaesthetist
WESTERN HEALTH

12.35 TRANSPACIFIC In Healthcare

• Who is Transpacific International?
• Outlining Transpacific’s business capabilities
• Highlighting best practice hospital waste management case studies delivered by Transpacific International
• Detailing current waste management trends in the health sector

Peter Howarth
National Market Development Manager
TRANSPACIFIC

2.00 Identifying How To Accurately Measure Your Hospital’s Carbon Footprint

• Understanding the many variables that impact your waste management and facility’s environmental footprint
• Measuring the footprint of your hospital: the key readings you need for an accurate assessment
• Recognising core contributors to your hospitals carbon footprint: quick tips to minimise the impact
• Benchmarking your facility: what is a respectable output?

Geoff Adams
National Environmental Services Manager
RAMSEY HEALTHCARE

2.35 HEAT - Health Environment Awareness Team: What Initiatives; Results & How Can You Roll Out A Similar Program

• Outlining what precisely HEAT is: how can you roll out a similar initiative?
• Understanding the necessity to have senior support: how to increase senior level buy-in for a similar program
• Devising plans to target different areas of the hospitals waste processes: where can you make the biggest difference?
• Implementing change throughout your hospital: how to gain the maximum out of your initiative
• Consolidating the new knowledge and embedding the strategies throughout the staff base

Dayna Montgomery
Senior Occupational Therapist
ROYAL PERTH HOSPITAL

3.10 Resource Smart For Healthcare

• Understand the role state agencies can play when facilitating change in the healthcare system
• Identifying environmental management strategies and programs
• Specific waste minimisation case studies
• Evaluating each project: how can the individual projects be transferred into other facilities

Stuart Galbraith
Resource Smart for Healthcare
SUSTAINABILITY VICTORIA

4.15 Healthcare And A Sustainable Environment Risk Management, Safelty And The Environment Alternative Waste Treatment Technologies

Anton Rossi-Mel
Commercial Manager
STERIHEALTH SERVICES

4.35 PANEL DISCUSSION: DECREASING YOUR HOSPITAL’S ENVIRONMENTAL FOOTPRINT – Water And Energy

• Maximising your facility wide water saving initiative: what can be done and how effective can they be?
• Successfully reducing your facility energy consumptions: what are you doing and how can these be rolled out in other hospitals
• Generating hospital wide support for all initiatives: how best to engage multi-levels of staff
• Minimising the inhibitors affecting your hospitals ability to reduce it’s environmental impact: supplier engagement, contractor consultation; specialty knowledge

5.10 Close Of Day One