Abstract:

This shapefile contains biomedical waste facilities inspected by the Florida Department of Health. There are approximately 42,000 facilities in Florida that generate biomedical waste. These include hospitals, clinics, nursing homes, laboratories, funeral homes, dentists, veterinarians, physicians, pharmacies that provide flu shots, body piercing salons, tattoo shops, transporters, and storage and treatment facilities. This is an update to the biomed_waste_dec16 layer.

Purpose:

The objective of the biomedical waste program is to protect health care workers,
environmental-service staff, waste haulers, and the general public from risks
associated with potentially infectious biomedical waste.

Supplemental_Information:

Both the Department of Health and the Florida Department of Environmental Protection
have responsibilities under this program.  The Department of Environmental Protection
has primary responsibility for biomedical waste incineration and final disposal. The
Department of Health has primary authority and responsibility for facilities that
generate, transport, store, or treat biomedical waste through processes other than
incineration.

The 1993 Florida Legislature provided funding for the Biomedical Waste Program from
the Solid Waste Management Trust Fund. Additional funding is provided through the
annual registration of biomedical waste transporters and the annual permitting of
storage and treatment facilities plus those generating facilities that produce at
least 25 pounds f biomedical waste in any 30-day period of the year. About 30,000
such facilities are inspected annually. However, the approximately 12,000 generating
facilities that produce less than 25 pounds of biomedical waste in each 30-day period
of the year are exempt from permitting and from the permit fee, and are inspected
once every three years.

Complaints concerning biomedical waste are investigated by County Health Departments.
Small amounts of improperly disposed biomedical waste are cleaned up under Department
of Health supervision. Emergency situations are referred to the Department of
Environmental Protection, Bureau of Emergency Response, at (850) 245-2010.

Currentness_Reference:

publication date

Use_Constraints:

Disclaimer:
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strongly urges all users of this site to conduct their own investigation of
any individual, organization, product or service appearing on this site or
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Address:

4052 Bald Cypress Way

Data_Set_Credit:

Florida Department of Health

Attribute_Accuracy_Report:

GeoPlan relied on the integrity of the attribute information within
the original data.

Logical_Consistency_Report:

This data is provided 'as is'. GeoPlan relied on the integrity
of the original data layer's topology

Completeness_Report:

This data is provided 'as is' by GeoPlan and is complete to our
knowledge.

Horizontal_Positional_Accuracy_Report:

This data is provided 'as is' and its horizontal positional accuracy
has not been verified by GeoPlan

Vertical_Positional_Accuracy_Report:

This data is provided 'as is' and its vertical positional accuracy
has not been verified by GeoPlan

Source_Contribution:

Spatial and Attribute Information

Process_Description:

The GeoPlan Center took the following steps during the QA/QC process:
- Downloaded the dataset from FDOH on 5/10/2018 using this link:
  http://www.floridahealth.gov/environmental-health/gis/gis-data.html
  (original dataset in shapefile format and in the WGS 1984 geographic
  coordinate system).
- Dataset projected into the FGDL Albers HPGN projection.
- Dataset clipped to Florida, using the FGDL cntbnd_sep15 layer, removing
  extraneous features.
- DESCRIPT field added based on the COMPANYNAM field. Any records with
  no data in the COMPANYNAM field had their DESCRIPT field calculated as
  'NO DESCRIPT AVAILABLE'.
- FGDLAQDATE field added based on the date the dataset was downloaded
  from source.
- Removed the field "SepticAppl" due to lack of data.
- The longest record for each field was found and field character lengths
  were shortened to the appropriate shortest length possible.
- Uppercased fields and records in the dataset.
- Layer name changed from Biomedical_Waste.shp to biomed_waste_mar18.shp.

Process_Description:

Dataset copied.

Attribute_Definition:

Internal feature number.