What principles does cleaning have in hospitals?

Cleaning in hospitals must follow strict rules defined by Regulation No. 306/2012 Coll. Due to the specific requirements that must be met when cleaning surgeries, operating rooms, patient rooms and common areas, it is always a better solution if the work is entrusted to a professional cleaning company. What must be at cleaning of medical facilities complied with and how is it possible to check that this is actually the case?

Main principles of hospital cleaning

All necessary hygiene rules for cleaning medical facilities are listed in § 10.

The main principles of cleaning are the following:

• cleaning of all areas must be carried out daily (in some cases several times a day) and wet cleaning
• Cleaning is carried out 3 times a day at acute inpatient care workplaces and in rooms where biological material is collected
• when cleaning workplaces with standard acute inpatient care, it is possible to use standard cleaning agents
• in other places (such as operating rooms, laboratories, bathrooms, toilets and others) it is also necessary to use special disinfectants with a virucidal effect
• own cleaning products and cleaning machines must always be used to clean the given places

Main principles of healthcare cleaning

When cleaning a hospital, the technique and the use of cleaning agents are very important. The current trend is the use of eco-friendly cleaning products. These have a composition that is extremely friendly to nature and human health, and at the same time it is possible to achieve high cleaning efficiency with them. They are also gentle on all surfaces.

Check must be!

If cleaning in the hospital is carried out by an external cleaning company, their work must be inspected. The supervision of the company should be carried out by a verified employee of the hospital, but it is necessary to realize that it is not always within human power. An innovation in the form of an online control system, which every hospital can have at its disposal, is currently helping to solve this problem. It is put into practice by our cleaning company, which operates in Prague and Brno. Every regular customer of our company gets access to the administration system, where they can monitor the progress of the cleaning. The employees of our cleaning service upload photos of cleaned places into the system and also enter the time when they did the cleaning. It is therefore possible to have absolute control over all works. It is possible to connect to the administration system using a computer, tablet or smartphone 24 hours a day.