Medical Waste Disposal Service Audit Checklist

Streamline Medical Waste Compliance with Paperform

Medical waste disposal requires strict adherence to federal, state, and local regulations. Whether you're a healthcare facility, laboratory, or medical waste disposal service provider, maintaining accurate audit records is essential for patient safety, environmental protection, and regulatory compliance.

This Medical Waste Disposal Service Audit Checklist template helps healthcare administrators, compliance officers, environmental health and safety managers, and waste management coordinators conduct thorough audits of medical waste handling procedures. The form covers all critical compliance areas including manifest documentation accuracy, container inspection protocols, transportation requirements, treatment facility certifications, and tracking system verification.

Built for Healthcare Compliance Workflows

Paperform makes it easy to digitise your medical waste audits and eliminate paper-based checklists that can be lost or incomplete. With conditional logic built in, you can route follow-up actions based on audit findings, automatically flag non-compliance issues, and ensure corrective actions are documented and tracked.

Use this template to:

• Conduct routine audits of medical waste disposal procedures
• Verify compliance with OSHA, EPA, DOT, and state-specific regulations
• Document container condition, labeling, and storage practices
• Review manifest accuracy and chain-of-custody records
• Assess treatment facility certifications and permits
• Identify gaps in training or procedural adherence

Automate Post-Audit Workflows with Stepper

Once your audit is complete, use Stepper to automate what happens next. Route critical findings to your compliance team, create corrective action tasks in your project management system, send reports to facility managers, or update your compliance tracking database—all without manual data entry.

SOC 2 Compliant and Secure

Paperform is SOC 2 Type II compliant, ensuring your sensitive audit data is handled with enterprise-grade security. Set up role-based access for your compliance team, store submissions securely, and maintain a complete audit trail for regulatory inspections.

Transform your medical waste compliance program from reactive to proactive with a digital-first audit checklist that's easy to use, easy to share, and built to scale with your healthcare organization.