Handbook
HB 260-2003
[Withdrawn]Hospital acquired infections — Engineering down the risk
Provides guidelines for persons, including engineers, architects, building contractors, project managers and health care workers, involved in the building design phase of new buildings for hospitals, or of buildings undergoing refurbishment or renovations in hospitals, to minimize the risk of acquiring infections in hospitals. Facilities for acute medical, surgical, paediatric and obstetric patients are covered in this handbook, but not psychiatric and long-term aged facilities, nor rehabilitation day care facilities.
Published: 20/03/2003
Pages: 34
Table of contents
Cited references
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Table of contents
Header
About this publication
Preface
Foreword
1 Scope and general
1.1 Scope
1.2 Referenced documents
1.3 Definitions and terminology
2 Patient accommodation
2.1 General
2.2 Types of rooms
3 General principles/requirements for design and construction of health care facilities
3.1 General
3.2 Design and construction
4 Handwashing facilities
4.1 General
4.2 Handwashing basins
4.2.1 General
4.2.2 Spatial requirements for hand basins and handwashing activities
4.2.2.1 General
4.2.2.2 Routine handwashing
4.2.2.3 Procedural handwashing (and routine patient care related handwashing)
4.2.2.4 Procedural handwashing plus disposal activities
4.2.2.5 Surgical scrub bay
4.2.3 Hand basin design
4.2.4 Taps
4.2.5 Dispensers—soap/towel
5 Requirements for rooms suitable for infection control
5.1 General principles
5.2 Types of rooms
5.3 Suggested design of rooms suitable for infection control
5.4 Pressure gradients
5.5 Ventilation/exhaust system
5.6 Supply air and exhaust duct design
5.7 Air distribution
5.8 Air change rates
5.9 Monitoring of room pressure
5.10 Methods of varying room pressure
5.11 Quarantine isolation rooms
5.12 Minimum fresh air requirements
5.13 Minimizing of room air leaks—Type 5 (respiratory isolation) rooms
5.14 Routine performance monitoring and maintenance
5.15 Energy conservation
5.16 Plant back-up systems
5.17 Interior of rooms
5.18 Room renovation or conversion
5.19 Checklist for rooms suitable for infection control purposes
6 Requirements for specialty areas
6.1 General
6.2 Intensive care/critical care/coronary care units
6.2.1 Provision and Types of separate rooms
6.2.2 Ensuites
6.2.3 Dimensions
6.2.4 Dedicated storage space
6.2.5 Storage areas for soiled materials
6.2.6 Clinical hand basins
6.3 Emergency medicine departments (adult/paediatric)
6.3.1 Provision of separate rooms
6.3.2 Clinical hand basins
6.4 Neonatal intensive care units
6.4.1 Separate room requirements
6.4.2 Clinical hand basins
6.5 Paediatric units
6.5.1 General
6.5.2 Separate room requirements
6.6 Acute care residential aged care units
6.7 Haematology/oncology units
6.7.1 General
6.7.2 Clinical hand basins
6.8 Mortuary
6.9 Maternity units
6.9.1 General
6.9.2 Birthing suites
6.9.3 Provision of separate rooms—general postnatal ward
6.9.4 Spa baths
6.10 Operating rooms
6.10.1 Construction
6.10.2 Airflow management
6.10.3 Pressure gradients
6.10.4 Air filtration
6.10.4.1 Supply air filtration
6.10.4.2 Prefilters
6.10.4.3 Performance requirements
6.10.5 Laminar flow
6.11 Bronchoscopy suites
6.12 Areas used for dialysis
Appendix A
A1 General
A2 Various configurations for types of rooms
Appendix B
Cited references in this standard
AS/NZS 3500.2.1
National plumbing and drainage, Part 2.1: Sanitary plumbing and drainage—Performance requirements
[Superseded]
Reusable containers for the collection of sharp items used in human and animal medical applications
[Pending Revision]
Air-handling and water systems of buildings — Microbial control, Part 3: Performance-based maintenance of cooling water systems
[Pending Revision]
Air-handling and water systems of buildings — Microbial control, Part 2: Operation and maintenance
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