Hospital House Keeping&Cleaning
Hospital House Keeping&Cleaning
Hospital House Keeping&Cleaning
2 DAYS
Housekeeping course presents a systematic approach to performing housekeeping operations and
provides a thorough overview, from the big picture of maintaining a quality staff, planning, and
organizing, to the technical details of cleaning each area of a hospital facility.
Learning Objectives:
At the completion of this course, students should be able to:
Describe the role of the housekeeping department in hospital operations, and explain the
importance of effective communication between housekeeping, the front office, and the
engineering and maintenance
Identify typical cleaning responsibilities of the housekeeping department, and explain how
area inventory lists, frequency schedules, performance standards, and productivity
standards are used to plan and organize the housekeeping department.
Explain the safety and security needs of hospital operations, how safety and security issues
affect housekeeping personnel, and know how to develop a hazard communication program
for the housekeeping department of a hospital operation.
DAY ONE
SANITATION
Basic principles of sanitation and peculiarity to hospital environment.
Basic principles of personal hygiene
Basic knowledge about different detergent and disinfectants
Different cleaning procedures applicable to different hospital areas
Basic knowledge about cleaning equipments
Their operation techniques
Their maintenance.
Different processes of Water treatment & purification, removing bacteria.
Supervising Sanitation of the Hospital Environment
a) Basic Cleaning
Dusting
Sweeping
Polishing
Washing
b) Special Cleaning of
Different types of floors
Wall & Ceiling
Doors & Windows
Furniture & Fixtures
Venetian Blinds
c) Maintenance of Toilet.
d) Water treatment, Filtering & Purification.
ODOUR CONTROL
Basic principles of ventilation, composition of Air, Air flow, Humidity and temperature.
Common types of odours and their sources of origin.
Removal and control technique of different types of odours.
Various equipments and materials used for odour control operations.
Identifying and determining the types and sources of unwanted odours in hospital
premises.
Controlling and removal of bad odours.
WASTE DISPOSAL
Hospital Waste
Source and generation of waste
Hazards of hospital waste to hospital population and community.
Principles of collection of different types of hospital Wastes and special precautions.
Transportation methods of different types of hospital waste from the source to the place of
final disposal.
Basic principles and methods of handling and disposal of solid, liquid, pathological, nuclear
waste.
Final disposal of waste
Sewer disposal
Incineration
Land of filling (bunch)
Other methods of disposals.
Supervise hospital waste disposal
- Collection
- Transportation
- Disposal
SAFETY
Classification of fire, importance of fire in hospital.
Basic methods of extinction of fire.
Principals of working of different types of Fire
Extinguishers.
Principles of working of different Fire Fighting
Equipment.
Awareness of tackling dangerous situation e.g.
Earthquake, Cyclones, Floods etc.
To identify fire risk areas in hospital
Supervising fire prevention activities
Demonstration & instruction by Fire Deptt. / Fire Brigade.
Detect source of fire
Operate fire alarm, Smoke Detector.
Supervising
o Fire fighting operation.
o Fire picketing.