Cleaning, decontamination and waste management
Watch ‘Safe management of blood and body fluid spillages’ on the NHS Education for Scotland website.
Table of Contents
- Tutorial Video
- Reading Materials
- ‘National infection prevention and control manual’ by NHS Scotland
- ‘The national specifications for cleanliness in the NHS’ by the National Patient Safety Agency (NPSA)
- Click on the icon to the left to see an example of the national specifications for cleanliness in practice by Leeds Community Healthcare.
- Laser Learning reading text ‘Your responsibilities for cleaning’
- ‘Working with substances hazardous to health’ by the Health and Safety Executive
- ‘Management of healthcare waste’ by the Health and Safety Executive
- ’Prevention and control of infection in care homes – an information resource’ by the Department of Health and the Health Protection Agency
- The following resources were created by the NHS: Infection Prevention and Control.
- ‘Mattresses and covers’
- ‘Waste management’
- ‘Laundry including uniforms’
- ‘Decontamination of equipment’
- ‘Environmental cleanliness’
- ‘Sharps management and inoculation injuries’
- Presentation
- Click to launch this lesson’s first presentation on ‘Cleaning tasks and infection control’.
- Click to launch this lesson’s second presentation on ‘Cleaning and PPE’.
- Good Practice Example
- Interactive Quiz
- Evidence Opportunities
- Extended Learning
- Click to read ‘Specification for the planning, application, measurement and review of cleanliness services in hospitals’ by BSI.
- Click to visit the website of NHS: Infection Prevention and Control.
- Click to access the NHSs ' National Standards of Healthcare Cleanliness 2021'.
- Click to read ‘Guidelines for Cleaning, Disinfection and sterilisation of patient care equipment: Staff responsibilities’ by NHS Dumfries and Galloway.
- Decontamination (Cleaning, Disinfection and Sterilisation) by NHS Black Country Partnership. Click on the icon to the left to read this document.
- Click on the icon to the left to read about a day in the life of the Hospital Sterilisation and Disinfectant Unit by NHS Wales.
- Think And Challenge
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