AWS Clinical Waste

AWS INTRODUCED BIOHAZARDOUS WASTE TREATMENT BY STEAM STERILISATION TO AUTRALIA IN 1989 WITH A QUARANTINE WASTE TREATMENT SYSTEM FOR QANTAS AT BRISBANE AIRPORT.

• SINCE 1989 AWS WERE THE FIRST TO REPLACE INCINERATORS IN AUSTRALIA WITH ITS AWS QUARANTINE TREATMENT SYSTEMS BY STEAM STERILISATON AT SEAPORTS STARTING WITH ITS AWS ONSITE AWS QUARANTINE WASTE TREATMENT SYSTEM AT GLADSTONE PORT IN 1992 TO ENABLE THE CLIENTS TO MEET THEIR LEGISLATIVE OBLIGATIONS AND THEIR REQUIREMENTS.
  
  
• SINCE 1989 AWS HAS INSTALLED AWS QUARANTINE WASTE TREATMENT SYSTEMS ONSITE AT SYDNEY, MELBOURNE CAIRNS AND BRISBANE AIRPORTS.

• AWS WERE THE FIRST IN AUSTRALIA TO SUCCESSFULLY ESTABLISH, MANAGE AND OPERATE A TREATMENT FACILITY TO STEAM STERILISE HOSPITAL AND QUARANTINE WASTE IN 1995 AT YATALA WITH ITS OWN AWS CLINICAL WASTE TREATMENT SYSTEMS USING PROCEDURES AND DOCUMENTATION APPROVED BY THE THEN QUEENSLAND ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY,DAFF AND QUEENSLAND HEALTH. THE FACILITY HAD CONTRACTS WITH QUEENSLAND HEALTH.

• AWS WERE THE FIRST IN AUSTRALIATO INSTALL A CLINICAL WASTE STERILISER IN A HOSPITAL POWERED BY COGENERATION WASTE HEAT AT REDCLIFFE HOSPITAL IN 1998 WITH ITS ONSITE AWS CLINICAL WASTE TREATMENT SYSTEM.
  
  
• SHORTLY THEREAFTER AWS INSTALLED AN AWS CLINICAL WASTE TREATMENT SYSTEM ONSITE AT ROYAL DARWIN HOSPITAL TO SUCCESFULLY MEET THE CLIENT’S REQUIREMENTS.
  
  
• AWS PROVIDES ONGOING COMPREHENSIVE TECHICAL SUPPORT TO ITS AWS WASTE TREATMENT SYTEMS TO CONTINUE TO MEET CLIENTS UPDATED REQUIREMENTS AND CHANGING LEGISLATIVE OBLIGATIONS.

• IN 2013, AWS BECAME THE FIRST TO PROVIDE A FULLY AUTOMATED QUARANTINE WASTE TREATMENT SYSTEM AT QANTAS AT BRISBANE AIRPORT TO MEET THE CLIENT’S SPECIFICATIONS.

• IN 2014 AWS WAS CONTRACTED TO PROVIDE THE FIRST ONSITE TOTALLY AUTOMATED FULLY ENCLOSED CLINICAL WASTE TREATMENT SYSTEM AT FIONA STANLEY HOSPITAL IN WESTERN AUSTRALIA INCLUDING ONGOING COMPREHENSIVE MAINTENANCE AND TECHNICAL SUPPORT.
  
  
• ON COMPLETION OF THE FSH AWS SYSTEM IT WILL BE THE FIRST ONSITE CLINICAL WASTE TREATMENT IN THE WORLD WITH FULL INFECTION CONTROL, THE ONLY TRULY SAFE SYSTEM, ONSITE OR OFFSITE.
  
  
• SINCE 1989 AWS HAS CONTINUED RESEARCH TO SUCCESSFULLY DESIGN, DEVELOP AND MANUFACTURE IN AUSTRALIA, SO AS TO UPGRADE EXISTING CLIENTS AWS SYSTEMS AND TO SUPPLY WORLD LEADING BIOHAZARDOUS WASTE TREATMENT SYSTEMS TO MEET ALL OF CLIENTS CURRENT REQUIREMENTS AND WITH AWS COMPREHENSIVE TECHNICAL SUPPORT.

AWS ANT SYSTEM FEATURES AND BENEFITS

AWS ANT SYSTEMS SIGNIFICANTLY REDUCE RISKS AND COSTS:

• SELF CONTAINED, UNIVERSALLY FIT ANY LOADING DOCK AT ANY FACILITY WORLDWIDE

• ELIMINATE RISK AND COSTS ASSOCIATED WITH TRANSPORTING UNTREATED BIOHAZARDOUS WASTE TO OFFSITE TREATMENT FACILITIES WITH VARYING LEVELS OF INFECTION CONTROL AND LITTLE OR NO SUPPORTING DOCUMENTATION AND BIN EXCHANGE SYSTEM WITH POSSIBLE CROSS CONTAMINATION

• PROVIDE DUTY OF CARE TO PUBLIC HEALTH, WORKERS AND THE ENVIRONMENT BY SAFELY MANAGING AND TREATING BIOHAZARDOUS WASTE

• DOCUMENTED ISO 17025 CERTIFIED AGITATE AND TURBO AIR MOIST HEAT TREATMENT, PROOF OF EFFECTIVE TREATMENT

• NO EMISSIONS TO ATMOSPHERE AND NO ODOUR, SUITABLE FOR SENSITIVE LOCATIONS

• DRY ODOURLESS MACERATED/SHREDDED UNRECOGNISABLE TREATED WASTE, REDUCED IN VOLUME AND SUITABLE FOR DISPOSAL IN THE GENERAL WASTE STREAM OR REUSE OR RECYCLE TO EPA APPROVAL

• ONLINE MONITORING AND TECHNICAL SUPPORT, KEEPS PERFORMING TO SPECIFICATION

• TOTALLY AUTOMATED AND FULLY ENCLOSED, NO OPERATOR AND THEREFORE NO RISK OF INJURY OR INFECTION AND NO LABOUR COST

• SELF CONTAINED, NO BUILDING AND NO BUILDING COST OR MAINTENANCE

• AUTO BIN EMPTY/CLEAN/DISINFECT, NO OPERATOR, NO RISK OF INJURY OR INFECTION, NO LABOUR COST

• AUTO FEED OF UNTREATED WASTE IN STORAGE FOR AROUND THE CLOCK OPERATION WITH FULL UTILISATION OF AWS ANT SYSTEM, REDUCING SIZE AND COST OF TREATMENT SYSTEM

• ELECTRONIC WASTE TRACKING FOR COMPLETE WASTE MANAGEMENT

• USE OF WASTE ENERGY FROM ONSITE COGENERATION (IF AVAILABLE)