Waste Segregation FMEA Model Integrating Intuitionistic Fuzzy Set and the PAPRIKA Method

María Carmen Carnero
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María Carmen Carnero: Department of Business Management, Technical School of Industrial Engineering, University of Castilla-la Mancha, 13071 Ciudad Real, Spain

Mathematics, 2020, vol. 8, issue 8, 1-29

Abstract: Segregation is an important step in health care waste management. If done incorrectly, the risk of preventable infections, toxic effects, and injuries to care and non-care staff, waste handlers, patients, visitors, and the community at large, is increased. It also increases the risk of environmental pollution and prevents recyclable waste from being recovered. Despite its importance, it is acknowledged that poor waste segregation occurs in most health care organizations. This study therefore intends to produce, for the first time, a classification of failure modes related to segregation in the Nuclear Medicine Department of a health care organization. This will be done using Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA), by combining an intuitionistic fuzzy hybrid weighted Euclidean distance operator, and the multicriteria method Potentially All Pairwise RanKings of all possible Alternatives (PAPRIKA). Subjective and objective weights of risk factors were considered simultaneously. The failure modes identified in the top three positions are: improper storage of waste (placing items in the wrong bins), improper labeling of containers, and bad waste management (inappropriate collection periods and bin set-up).

Keywords: waste segregation; failure mode and effects analysis; intuitionistic fuzzy hybrid weighted Euclidean distance operator; PAPRIKA (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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