Healthcare and Social Assistance Sector (NAICS 62)

The Health Care and Social Assistance sector comprises establishments providing health care and social assistance for individuals. The industries in this sector are arranged on a continuum starting with those establishments providing medical care exclusively, continuing with those providing health care and social assistance, and finally finishing with those providing only social assistance.

Read more about sectors at the US Census Bureau NAICS site.

Laws and Regulations

• Air
  • Essential Uses of CFCs for Metered-Dose Inhalers: EPA's yearly notice requesting applications from companies who seek allowances to produce or import CFCs for use as propellant in metered-dose inhalers.
  • Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program
  • National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants (NESHAP): air toxics regulations:
    • Commercial Sterilizers
    • Hospital / Medical / Infectious Waste Incinerators (HMIWI)
    • Hospital Ethylene Oxide Sterilizers (area sources)
    • Industrial, Commercial and Institutional Boilers and Process Heaters
    • Pharmaceutical Production Industry
    • Reciprocating Internal Combustion Engines (RICE), including area sources
• Pesticides
  • Selected EPA-registered Disinfectants: The use of EPA registered products effective against human blood borne pathogens listed are in compliance with OSHA’s (Occupational Safety and Health Administration) Occupational Exposure to blood borne Pathogens (29 CFR 1910).
• Waste
  • Medical Waste and State Medical Waste Programs and Regulations
• Water
  • Dental Amalgam Effluent Guidelines: reducing discharges of mercury in wastewater.
  • Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Effluent Guidelines

Compliance

• Combustion Portal : compliance assistance center.
• Healthcare Sector Compliance Assistance: including sector profiles and assistance centers.
• Tribal Compliance Assistance Center: Healthcare

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