Infection Control 101
Infection Control Risk Assessment
What is ICRA stand for?
This product collects dust and contaminants from your boots upon exit from the job site
What Are Sticky Mats?
The type of room designed so more air is filtered and exhausted than supplied into the room.
What is negative pressure?
Trades should, and are frequently contractually obligated to put all discarded material in a ___________ so our laborers can easily discard in a basket.
What is a center pile?
This type of room is deisgned to prevent outside air from entering the room, most common in clean supply room, operating rooms and pharmacies.
What is a positive pressure room?
This drawing is required whenever work is being preformed in the active hospital
What is a DPP?
Not only laborers, supers, trades and even project managers have the ability to do this.
What is change the sticky mats?
The methods to ensure construction dust and debris is not sucked into the building return air system.
What is covering the building return registers?
This product should be used while sweeping on dry surfaces to control dirt and dust
What is green dust?
This system circulates hot water to keep constant flow and prevent contamination of the water.
What is a hot water return system?
This unit is used when opening a ceiling tile in the active hospital
What is a mobile containment cart?
This product is used to cover debris containers and material from entering and exiting job site. Tight plastic is also acceptable.
What are clean caps?
The technique is used to ensure dust doesn’t escape the job site by traveling through the undercut of unused doors
What is sealing unused doors with tape?
When jobsite protection needs to be altered from the approved DPP, this should be done prior to erecting any temporary protection.
What is submitting a revision to your DPP?
This area of the hospital is designed to clean and sterilize medical tools and equipment.
What is central sterile supply?
A breathable fungus or common mold caused by the inhalation of mold spores
What is aspergillus?
This is used to ensure that clothing is as dust free as possible. Used upon exit from the job site.
What is a HEPA equipped vacuum?
A portable device used to capture dust and purify the air. Also used for creating a negative work environment.
What is a HEPA unit or HEPA fan?
After deliveries and before 7am, our laborers must do this to ensure active hopsital spaces are clean and dust free for day to day operations
What is sweep and mop the corridors?
Whenever working on a medical gas system, it must be _____________ before being put back into operation to ensure particles have not breached the system.
What is certified?
This document is written and provided by the hospital to outline what infection control measures are required based on the location and type of construction.
What is an ICRA plan?
This product is required to be used during demolition or heavy construction. Also frequently required when walking through an active operating room corridor.
What are coveralls and shoe covers?
The tools to measure and ensure negative pressure is being maintained.
What is a magnahelic, or tissue test?
Most hand tools come with a vacuum attachment, which controls dust on the jobsite. This plan is written and required by each contractor prior to starting work on one of our Jobsites
What is a silica exposure control plan?
All inpatient hospital units have each of these, one of which stores and houses new supplies for the nursing staff, the other stores used and dirty garments for disposal.
What is a clean supply room and soiled holding room?