Victorian Cleaning Standards for Public Hospitals External Cleaning Audit 2006-2007

Victorian Cleaning Standards for Public Hospitals External Cleaning Audit 2006-2007 Infection associated with health care is one of the most common adverse outcomes in health icare systems in the developed world. The patients most at risk are the very sick, the very old and very young—those patients who have benefited substantially from advances in medicine, surgery and health technologies. While not all hospital-acquired infections (HAI’s) can be prevented, we can ensure that systems are in place to minimise their occurrence. The reduction of hospital acquired infections is an important key issue for the health sector, the Department of Human Services and the Government. What are the Victorian Cleaning Standards for Public Hospitals and who do they apply too? The Cleaning Standards for Victorian Public Hospitals (Cleaning Standards) were implemented across all public Victorian hospitals in January 2000. The Standards apply to all hospitals whether cleaning is conducted in house, or contracted out. They are designed to be used as a standard against which in-house services can be benchmarked, as the basis for specifications if cleaning services are contracted out, and as the framework for auditing of cleaning services by cleaning supervisors, hospital management or the Department of Human Services (the Department). The Cleaning Standards for Victorian Public Hospitals, revised February 2005 provide details of program and auditing processes. http: ...