Ariz. Admin. Code § R18-13-1403 - Exemptions; Partial Exemptions
A.
The following persons are exempt from the requirements of this Article:
1. Law enforcement personnel handling
biohazardous medical waste for law enforcement purposes.
2. A person in possession of medical waste
that is regulated by a state or federal agency due to its radioactive
nature.
3. A person who returns
unused medical sharps to the manufacturer.
4. A household generator residing in a
private, public, or semi-public residence who generates biohazardous medical
waste in the administration of self care or the agent of the household
generator who administers the medical care. This exemption does not apply to
the facility in which the person resides if that facility is licensed by the
Arizona Department of Health Services.
5. A generator that separates medical devices
from the medical waste stream that are sent out for re-processing and returned
to the generator.
6. A person in
possession of human bodies regulated by A.R.S. Title 36.
7. A person who sends used medical
sharps via the United States Postal Service or private shipping agent to a
treatment facility.
B. The following are conditionally exempt
from the requirements of this Article:
1. A
person who prepares human corpses, remains, and anatomical parts that are
intended for interment or cremation. However, medical sharps must be disposed
of as prescribed by this Article.
2. A person who operates an emergency rescue
vehicle, an ambulance, or a blood service collection vehicle in the course of
providing medical services if the biohazardous medical waste is returned to the
home facility for disposal. This facility is considered to be the point of
generation for packaging, treatment, and disposal.
3. A person who discharges liquid and
semi-liquid biohazardous medical wastes, excluding cultures and stocks, to the
sanitary sewer system if the operator of the wastewater sewer system and
treatment facility allows, permits, authorizes, or otherwise approves of the
discharges.
4. Hazardous waste
regulated by A.R.S. Title 49, Chapter 5.
5. A health care worker who uses a
multi-purpose vehicle in the conduct of routine health care business other than
transporting waste is exempt from the requirements of
R18-13-1409 if the health care
worker complies with all of the following:
a.
Packages the biohazardous medical waste according to
R18-13-1407.
b. Secures the packaged biohazardous medical
waste within the vehicle so as to minimize spills.
c. Transports the biohazardous medical waste
to the place of business or to a medical waste treatment or disposal
facility.
d. Cleans the vehicle
when it shows visible signs of contamination.
e. Secures the vehicle to prevent
unauthorized contact with the biohazardous medical waste.
6. A person who transports biohazardous
medical waste between multiple properties separated by a public thoroughfare
and which is owned or operated by the same owner or governmental entity is
exempt from the requirements of
R18-13-1409 if the person complies
with R18-13-1403(B)(5)(a) through
(e).
7. A hospital that chooses to accept medical
sharps from staff physicians who generate medical sharps in a private practice
is exempt from the requirement to obtain facility plan approval as long as the
hospital collects medical sharps for off-site treatment or
disposal.
C. The
following are exempt from some of the requirements of this Article:
1. A generator who treats biohazardous
medical waste on site and who accepts for treatment medical waste described in
R18-13-1403(A)(4)
is exempt from the requirement to obtain solid waste facility plan approval
prescribed in
R18-13-1410.
2. A generator who self-hauls biohazardous
medical waste to a Department-approved medical waste treatment, storage,
transfer, or disposal facility is exempt from the requirements of
R18-13-1409 if the generator
complies with
R18-13-1403(B)(5)(a) through
(e).
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