The document provides guidelines for maintaining a special procedures environment. The environment should minimize infection risks, not cause harm to health, and facilitate clean to dirty workflow. It must have impervious surfaces, sufficient lighting and ventilation, and be kept in good repair to allow for effective cleaning. The space must be visibly clean, undamaged, and fit for its intended purpose of minimizing contamination risks.

1. Should minimise the risk of infection
Must not be capable of causing harm to human health
Should be easy to clean and in a good state of repair
Should be well lit and ventilated
Should have impervious/durable surfaces
Should be ‘suitable and sufficient’
Should facilitate good workflow (working from clean to dirty)
What’s the standard? The special procedures environment:
Walls, doors, windows, partitions, floors, floor coverings, ceiling or
any part of the structure in any part of the premises used by the
client and practitioner must be kept and be capable of being kept
in good order, repair and condition to facilitate effective
cleaning.
The environment should be designed and of sufficient size to
minimise this risk of cross infection or contamination and
facilitate effective cleaning and when appropriate disinfection.
The environment must be visibly clean, free from dust and dirt.
Surfaces should have no damage and must be easy to clean.
The premises must be fit for purpose.
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