Workplace monitoring audit

All chairs and couches (soft furniture).

All cleaning equipment including cleaning trolley.

All doors including ventilation grilles.

All internal glazing including partitions (excluding mirrors and windows).

All elements of showers.

All waste receptacles (does not include euro/wheelie bin).

All windows including frames where accessible.

Bedside lockers.

Ceilings and walls - not accessible above 2 metres and ceiling lights.

Baths and taps.

Commodes.

Dishwashers. Descale as per local protocol.

Bed pan (reusable), bed pan holder, patient wash bowls.

Dispenser cleaning - hand wash, hand sanitisers, paper towel holders, toilet roll holders, all alcohol dispensers and hand dryers, including glove and apron dispensers. Replenish as required.

Floor - hard including skirtings.

Electrical items in multi-use areas - specifically computers and phones for example at nurses' station, computers on wheels (COWs) and workstations on wheels (WOWs), computer casing only.

Floor - soft including skirtings.

Ice machines, hot water boilers and cold-water machines including drip trays. Follow local Infection Prevention and Control guidelines. Follow local protocol for descaling.

Fridges and freezers (patient and staff areas).

Kitchen cupboards.

Fridges and freezers clinical (including but not limited to bloods fridges, medicine fridges, ice freezers for physio departments)

High surfaces including curtain rails, staff locker tops that are accessible, and high surfaces around patient bed areas.

Lighting including overhead, bedside, wall mounted examination lights both fixed and portable.

Microwaves and traditional cookers/ovens.

Linen and general-purpose trolleys.

Low surfaces - low level pipes and low level trunking.

Medical equipment e.g. intravenous infusion pumps, drip stands and pulse oximeters, medical gas bottles and stands, walking aids. Refer to local protocol for medical equipment connected to and not connected to a patient.

Middle surfaces - window sills, non patient furniture, tables, desks, shelves and ledges, work surfaces and cupboards exteriors. This does not include items covered by other elements in this list, i.e. switches & sockets.

Mirrors.

Toilets, bidets, urinals and toilet brushes.

Notes and drugs trolleys and patient clipboards.

Over bed tables and dining tables.

Patient bed and trolley mattresses. Refer to local protocol for inspection of mattress integrity and ingression.

Patient beds - frame, wheels, castors, head, foot, cot sides, nurse call and control panels, including carers beds in the clinical area. Non patient beds including on- call beds - clean as per local protocol.

Patient fans - with accessible blade. Refer to local risk assessment and protocol.

Patient toys (premises owned). Refer to local protocol and risk assessment.

Patient trolleys and treatment couches. Trolleys with x-ray storage and oxygen cylinders clean according to local protocol.

Patient TV and bedside entertainment systems including head pieces.

Patients hoists.

Radiators including cover.

Other sluice equipment including sluice sink and equipment holders.

Replenishment of consumables.

Sinks and taps.

Switches, sockets and data points, trunking, handrails and wall fixtures.

Ventilation grilles extracts and inlets.

Walls - accessible up to 2 metres.

Weighing scales including neonatal, seated and standing scales.

Wheelchairs (organisation owned). Refer to local protocol.

Curtains and Blinds