Improvement and modification of the routing system for the health-care waste collection and transportation in İstanbul

Alagöz, Aylin Zeren; Kocasoy, Günay

doi:10.1016/j.wasman.2007.08.024

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“…A Turkish study also reported inappropriate handling of BM waste at the institutions concerned and that there was no systematic program for the transportation of the health care waste to the final disposal sites. 25 Use of personal protective equipments was found to be 99.13% among the sanitary workers in our study. This indicates strict implementation of policies and procedures in the hospital.…”

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Rationality in handling biomedical waste: a study on the sanitary workers from a tertiary care hospital in West Bengal

Chaudhuri

Chattopadhyay

Siddalingaiah

2017

Int J Community Med Public Health

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Background: Health-care waste contains potentially harmful microorganisms, which can infect hospital patients, health workers and the general public. The knowledge and practices of sanitary workers needs special attention as these individuals are responsible for managing biomedical waste (BMW) from the point of collection to the point of disposal. The objective was to study the socio-demographic and service profile of the study population and assess their knowledge and practices on Biomedical Waste Management. Methods: A predesigned, pretested and validated proforma was used for data collection from 120 sanitary workers in the hospital. An observation checklist was used to assess their practices. Results: Most of the sanitary workers received no formal training before or after joining service (71.67%). Less than 60% of the sanitary workers knew about treatment of waste in hospital, diseases through waste and immunisation. 40.84% of them did not label the bags prior to waste collection and only 30% transported segregated waste in separate trollies. Conclusions: There is a need for enforcement of strict guidelines and measures to improve work safety in hazardous waste collection, transport and handling. Training program on BMW management should be designed to bridge the knowledge attitude and practice gap of sanitary workers.

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Rationality in handling biomedical waste: a study on the sanitary workers from a tertiary care hospital in West Bengal

Chaudhuri

Chattopadhyay

Siddalingaiah

2017

Int J Community Med Public Health

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“…The company had the option of using the Roadnet Transportation Suite Routing and Scheduling Systems (UPS Logistic Group, 2004), which they already owned, and Map-Info (MapInfo Corporation, 2015). MapInfo software, in particular, could be used to perform a geocode and map analysis while Roadnet Transportation Suite would enable the company to create optimised routes and load plans (Alagöz and Kocasoy, 2008).…”

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A lean thinking and simulation-based approach for the improvement of routing operations

Villarreal

Garza‐Reyes

Kumar

2016

Industrial Management &Amp; Data Systems

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Purpose – The improvement of routing operations performance has been of great concern for organisations. This has led to the development of alternative lean-based methods, however the literature research on the applications of lean thinking in the transportation sector is still considered rather limited. The purpose of this paper is to present a lean thinking and simulation-based approach to improve the efficiency of warehousing and routing operations. Design/methodology/approach – The paper reviews the existing literature in the area of lean transportation and then presents and applies a novel approach to improve the vehicle routing operations of a Mexican firm. The proposed approach suggests the classification of wastes into those relevant to transport operations, their identification through a transportation value stream mapping study, and the use of the transportation overall vehicle effectiveness (TOVE) index for the measure of the overall performance of the transport operations. Findings – The results obtained from the case study indicate that the proposed approach is an effective alternative for the improvement of vehicle routing operations as the number of routes decreased from 30 to 22 and the distance travelled by 32 per cent. Similarly, the average number of clients served by each route increased by 23 per cent as well as the TOVE index increased from 6.9 to 19.3 per cent. The TOVE component measures of vehicle performance and operating availability efficiencies also increased significantly while quality issues, in the form of number of customers not served per route, were reduced from six to zero. Originality/value – The improvement of routing operations performance has been traditionally addressed through operations research and mathematical modelling approaches. This paper presents an alternative and novel lean thinking and simulation-based approach to improve the efficiency of routing operations.

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“…Genetic algorithm Alagöz and Kocasoy (2008) [19] Develop a health-care waste collection and transportation system for the city of Istanbul, Turkey. [44] Describe applications areas of arc routing such as sanitation services and postal delivery operations.…”

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Waste Collection Vehicle Routing Problem: Literature Review

Han¹,

Cueto²

2015

PROMET

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Improvement and modification of the routing system for the health-care waste collection and transportation in İstanbul

Cited by 84 publications

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Rationality in handling biomedical waste: a study on the sanitary workers from a tertiary care hospital in West Bengal

Rationality in handling biomedical waste: a study on the sanitary workers from a tertiary care hospital in West Bengal

A lean thinking and simulation-based approach for the improvement of routing operations

Waste Collection Vehicle Routing Problem: Literature Review

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