Waste Training & Education
Sharpsmart’s Continual Improvement Team can deliver role-specific, behaviour-based healthcare waste management training through our REAL methodology to ensure learning is relevant, engaging and accessible for every member of your team.
An Expert Partner in Waste & Recycling Training
Supporting culture change from within the four walls.
For many healthcare facilities, waste training isn’t a priority – when it is implemented, it can fail to engage learners if not done strategically. Training often fails to engage learners. This lack of connection usually results in poor knowledge retention and limited behavioural change.
The result? Facilities struggle to maintain compliance, staff lack confidence, and waste-related risks go unchecked – undermining both safety and sustainability goals.
We changed the way healthcare approaches waste management training.
Sharpsmart’s Continual Improvement Team uses our REAL methodology (Relevant-Engaging-Accessible-Learning) to transform education into a tailored, behaviour-led experience. Working alongside your teams within the four walls, we ensure training that is directly related to individual roles, responsibilities, and learning styles.
Whether you’re a current partner of ours looking for Continual Improvement and Optimisation, or you already have a waste service provider and are looking for expert guidance and support – we can use real-time data and clinical insights to help your teams:
- Stay compliant with HTM 07-01 and the NHS Clinical Waste Strategy through accessible, role-specific learning programmes.
- Drive behavioural change with training designed around individual learning styles (visual, auditory, kinaesthetic) and NLP principles.
- Build lasting cultural excellence through structured, tiered training modules that empower staff at every level – from core knowledge to advanced champions.
This isn’t just consultancy. It’s a hands-on partnership that enables data-driven decision-making, measurable improvements, and long-term cultural change in waste management.
Our Continual Improvement & Optimisation Projects
We offer a variety of project-based solutions as part of our Continual Improvement & Optimisation solution…
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Waste Trends Audits
Explore Waste Trends Audits with Sharpsmart as part of our Continual Improvement & Optimisation programme.
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Pre-Acceptance Audits
Explore Pre-Acceptance Audits with Sharpsmart as part of our Continual Improvement & Optimisation programme.
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Offensive Waste Optimisation
Explore Offensive Waste Optimisation with Sharpsmart as part of our Continual Improvement & Optimisation programme.
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Simpler Recycling Solutions
Explore Simpler Recycling Solutions with Sharpsmart as part of our Continual Improvement & Optimisation offering.
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Continual Improvement & Optimisation
Drive clinical outcomes with our Continual Improvement & Optimisation projects.
Real Results from Real NHS Trusts
Sharpsmart’s Waste Training and Education projects have helped other healthcare facilities just like yours achieve great results. See our case studies:
“Always there to help…”
The Sharpsmart team are committed to us as a customer and are a pleasure to deal with. I would highly recommend them.
Sandra Fenwick, Waste Officer
Northumbria NHS Foundation Trust
“We’ve seen a 20% waste reduction…”
The introduction of the Bag to Bedside system has not only created a cleaner ward environment and more pleasurable patient experience, it has ensured that we have made significant reductions in both waste treatment costs and clinical waste output. Initial estimates following rollout show that we have diverted close to 50% of orange bag waste to the offensive and domestic waste streams, which has resulted in a 20% reduction in our costs for these waste streams.
Jeff Trevor, Waste Manager
University Hospitals of the North Midlands NHS Trust
“Exceptional Training…”
For a number of years I have had the pleasure of having Sharpsmart as a service provider and throughout the years I have been impressed with their commitment to customer service. We have not only been the recipient of good quality service, our staff have been provided exceptional training by informative and dedicated staff. Our questions and issues are always addressed in a timely manner and the team at Sharpsmart have always gone above and beyond our expectations.
Catherine Lockwood, Manager – Customer Support Services
Joseph Brant Hospital
“Sustainability is Incredible…”
We’ve used Sharpsmart for over four years. The traceable sustainability of the Sharpsmart containers is incredible.
Clare Topping, Energy & Sustainability Manager
Northampton General Hospital
The Sharpsmart Difference
Healthcare Waste Management cost efficiencies are derived from the successful deployment of five key elements.
At Sharpsmart we work closely with our customers to ensure that all healthcare staff are protected, trained and equipped, that the facilities’ risk profile is managed, and that costs associated with the handling of healthcare waste are minimised. Learn more about how Sharpsmart engages these five key elements to deliver cost-savings, safety, compliance, segregation and labour efficiencies to healthcare facilities across the United Kingdom.
Safety
The Sharpsmart Difference
Our highest commitment is safety; through intelligent products, systemised solutions and bespoke training, we work with our customers to reduce needlestick injuries and bloodborne pathogen exposure, minimise infection transfer risk, and provide solutions that protect the safety of staff and patients.
Sustainability
The Sharpsmart Difference
Our reusable products and environmentally responsible treatment services are designed to increase segregation accuracy, reduce CO2 burden and minimise waste volumes going to landfill. Through waste mapping, auditing and environmentally graded solutions, we work with our customers to achieve the highest green ratings.
Efficiency
The Sharpsmart Difference
Sharpsmart optimises the efficiencies of healthcare environments through smart products, point-of-use solutions, process re-engineering and redefined waste handling methodologies. Significantly reducing labour through point-of-use bagless containment systems, wall mounting accessories and logistical solutions, our customised services guarantee optimised time and movement efficiencies and optimised costs.
Compliance
The Sharpsmart Difference
Experts in the regulatory complexities governing the healthcare sector, we position ourselves as an astute partner delivering expert guidance and compliant solutions to our customers. All Sharpsmart solutions are vetted against federal, provincial and municipal regulations and executed through waste plans and training to achieve optimised safety and compliance.
Education
The Sharpsmart Difference
Our ongoing commitment to educate staff within healthcare ensures that together we achieve greater safety awareness and drive behavioural change in waste management, segregation, compliance and best practice management. Through onsite training, educational material and module-based e-learning, we ensure all healthcare staff are trained and compliance certified.
FAQ’s
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