UPDATED:
4/24/96
BEST MANAGEMENT
PRACTICES FOR
DOCTOR/DENTIST
OFFICE
Best
management practices can be thought of as using "good
housekeeping"
practices. Listed below are several procedures to
operate your facility
and
minimize the risk of contamination to the environment.
1. Facilities
must not discharge any waste x-ray solutions to septic
tanks,
storm drains, or to the ground. If the
facility is served
by
sanitary sewers, the wastewater may be treated by an approved
treatment
system and the effluent may be discharged to the
sanitary
sewers if it meets applicable sewer standards (silver 0.4
mg/l). If your facility is served by septic tank
these solutions
may
be picked up by a DERM approved transporter.
2. All
Biohazardous Waste (BHW) must be "red-bagged" and properly
disposed
of per Health Department Standards.
Biohazardous Waste
may
not be mixed with the regular trash. If
(BHW) is not treated
on-site,
a DERM permitted transporter must be used.
3. Waste
disposal
a. All
hazardous waste must be disposed of via a permitted
hazardous
waste transporter and taken to a federally
approved
hazardous waste disposal facility.
Receipts of
all
waste disposals and hazardous waste manifests must
be
retained for no less than three (3) years, at the
generator's
facility and be available for review.
b.
In all situations where the waste
is deemed to be
hazardous,
a permitted hazardous waste transporter must
be
used to transport the waste to a federally approved
hazardous
waste treatment or disposal facility.
The
facility
generating the hazardous waste is required to
obtain
an Environmental Protection Agency identification
number
unless classified as a conditionally
exempt
generator,
by contacting:
Bureau
of Waste Planning and Regulation
Florida
Dept. of Environmental Protection
Two
Towers Office Building Room 471
2600
Blair Stone Road
Tallahassee,
Florida 32399-2400
(904)
488-4805
4. Storage
a. Chemical storage areas
must be on an impervious
surface
with secondary containment or a bermed and
covered area away from drainage structures (e.g.
floor drains or storm drains).
5.
Special attention should be paid
to storm drain locations (also
known
as storm sewers). Storm drains are
designed to help
alleviate
rainwater build up. These drains are
not connected to
the
sanitary sewer system, but rather assist in allowing the
rainwater
to drain into the ground and groundwater.
Therefore,
industrial
discharges should not be allowed to drain into these
storm
drains. Areas near storm drains must be
kept free of oil,
grease
and other contaminates so that rainwater does not wash
these
materials into the storm drains.
All
doctors and dentist operating X-ray machines are required to have
Annual
Pollution Control Operating Permits.
Questions
will be answered by the Industrial Facilities Section staff
at
(305)372-6600.