Daily In house cleaning:

• Clean the worktops, cupboard doors, dental table, table top and mat, walls, window blinds, anaesthetic machine and dental machine with an appropriate disinfectant (see appendix A)
• Clean, tidy and organise the worktop.
• Empty the clinical waste bin and send for incineration.
• Normal waste bin is emptied and collected once every 3 weeks.
• Sharps bins are collected for incineration once full, and the sharps bin is replaced.
• The windows are cleaned with glass cleaner (see appendix A)
• Sweep and mop the floors with an appropriate disinfectant (see appendix A).
• Clean, tidy and organise the dental drawers.
• Restock consumables – disposable gloves, cotton wool, suture material, scalpel blades.

Weekly In house cleaning:

• Empty the air compressor on the dental machine as per manufacturer’s guidelines.

Appendix - Disinfectants

• We use Anigene as our disinfectant.
• It is made up daily for kennels and cattery in yellow buckets at a concentration rate of 1:100 (10ml Anigene to 1ltr water).
• We have spray bottles with 1:100 concentration in consult rooms, pharmacy, prep room, dental, laboratory, kennels, cattery, radiography, theatres. It is used to clean surfaces between each patient.
• We use a concentration on 1:100 to clean all floors, made up daily and disposed of correctly at the end of the day. Yellow bucket and yellow mops: kennels, cattery, waiting room. Green bucket and green mops: prep room, radiography, dental, scrub. Blue bucket and blue mops: both theatres.
• For cleaning isolation, we made up Anigene at a concentration of 1:50 in spray bottles, bucket and mop bucket
• Red bucket and red mops – Isolation
• Mop heads are washed in the washing machine at 60.c after each use.
• Clean all windows and glass daily with Flash Anti-bac Plus.

Prepared by VetNurse.co.uk. V1. 26/9/2023

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