What are waste management templates?

The process for operational waste management serves to collect, transport, dispose of and, if necessary, treat industrial municipal waste. In various industries, this system ensures greater environmental awareness and promotes public health and safety.

The waste management checklist supports your team in complying with legal standards. It helps you to assess whether the processes of waste separation and disposal are properly implemented and followed by the organisation. A waste management checklist helps to avoid environmental problems and legal penalties.

In this article, the following is addressed:

In 4 steps to optimal waste management

Waste management is a time-consuming task as well as a balancing of many factors. Not only legal regulations but also environmental protection, responsibility and practicability play a role in the implementation of measures. It is therefore important to structure a plan as far as possible and to optimise each step in the best possible way. With the following 4 steps you can deal with waste disposal in your company responsibly and thoroughly:

1. Inform yourself
   Find out about local and national regulations for waste management in companies. You should also carefully consider your options for waste disposal and be able to distinguish between different types of waste. These 4 types are commonly classified as follows:
   
   - Commercial municipal waste
   - Infectious waste
   - Hazardous waste
   - Industrial waste
   


2. Review
   Check the existing plan (if available) and examine the individual disposal steps. The possible types of solid waste management disposal methods are:
   
   - Recycling
   - Composting
   - combustion
   - Sanitary landfills
   
   You should also evaluate office management: Where can packaging material be saved on office supplies? Are there work steps that can be digitized to save paper? By overhauling certain outdated processes you can also save costs.


3. Implement
   The implementation of solid waste management disposal methods should be well planned. This should be determined: Who is responsible for waste disposal? There should be at least one person responsible for waste management in the company. The disposal channels should also be thoroughly assessed for effectiveness. Are the paths as short as possible? Is the disposal as climate-friendly as possible?


4. Control
   It is certainly not enough to order individual solid waste management disposal methods, but the planning and implementation of waste management should be a long-term process. Introduced measures should always be checked for effectiveness and timeliness. For this purpose, it is particularly suitable to create a checklist for legal and internal company regulations, which serves as a guideline for evaluating the system.

Lumiform: Your app & software for controlling waste management via templates

With Lumiform you can more easily comply with the ever-increasing legal requirements for process documentation by documenting via smartphone or tablet using the mobile app and being guided by the system through all documentation processes. Clean, transparent documentation helps to avoid high fines. The easiest way to do this is with a digital solution like Lumiform.

Digitize checklists and internal processes with Lumiform:

• The flexible checklist builder from Lumiform helps you to convert any individual paper list into a digital checklist without much effort.


• In addition, we offer more than 9,000 ready-made templates to help companies get started digitally in no time.


• Using the super intuitive mobile App, you and your teammates conduct check in the field with ease and in no time.


• All results, images and comments are automatically bundled in a digital report.


• Comprehensive analyses help you to identify inefficient areas in your company more quickly and thus to continuously improve your auditing and inspection processes.