Assessment of Waste Management in Healthcare Industry by using DEMATEL Technique

Abstract

Healthcare waste management is the major task for the industry especially in rising nations like India. It is problematic to identify and control the wastes has turn out to be one of the serious concerns. For the assessment of waste management, case study is conducted in one of the top healthcare industry in India. The objective of the paper is to identify and assess the most influential wastes in the healthcare industry. In this paper, ten wastes are recognized from relevant literature and used to recognize the most influential wastes in the healthcare industry by using Decision Making Trail and Evaluation Laboratory (DEMATEL) technique. This technique evaluates the importance of wastes and also displays its causal relations. The finding of the paper reveals that wastes from genotoxic chemical (W8) is the most influential waste in the healthcare industry and needs to be control it.