Building Components

As part of the hospital, several building components are in the room Central sterilization
installations require several requirements. The floor cover component has the following
requirements:
(1) not made of material which has a high porosity surface layer can store dust.
(2) easy to clean and resistant to friction.
(3) the floor covering must be brightly colored and not dazzling.
(4) has a floor pattern with continuous grooves throughout the service room. Floors do not have
angles that can store dust or other dirt.
Wall components have the following requirements:
(1) walls must be easy to clean, weather resistant and not moldy.
(2) wall coverings must be non-porous (not containing pores) so the wall cannot store dust.
(3) the color of the wall is bright but not dazzling.
(4) Walls that meet the floor do not have angles that can hold dust or other impurities.
The ceiling component has the following requirements:
(1) must be easy to clean, resistant to all weather conditions, resistant to water, no contain
elements that can endanger the officer, and not moldy.
(2) has a cover that is non-porous (not porous) so it does not save dust.
(3) brightly colored, but not dazzling room users.
The following facilities and room requirements are needed for central sterilization installations:
(1) Control reception and disinfection area. Workspaces and equipment needed for cleaning
and disinfection of medical and surgical instruments are sorted, collected and passed through
the disinfectant washer to the clean area.
(2) Washing facilities and sanitation baskets.
(3) Staff changing rooms, lockers, toilets, etc.
(4) Office supervisor. Must be outside of the activity stream but available does not obstruct the
view from the process area. For this, an office with a glass wall is recommended.
(5) Clean work area. Room to prepare special instruments, check and test instruments,
equipment and linen, to assemble the contents of trays which are dismantled and pack linen, to
prepare gloves (if deemed necessary) and to wrap material for sterilization.
(6) Assembly area. A workplace is needed for assembling medical surgical action packages,
sets and trays. Workshops with several drawers for instruments and equipment must be
provided. The linen package area requires a large work desk and for inspection, a special
inspection table (light) to check the linen wrappers that will be used to wrap the instrument.
(7) Inventory storage area.
(8) Pass through an autoclave double door. It uses steam with high vacuum and gas
sterilizer.
(9) Enough space for loading sterile baskets or trolleys; prior to sterilization, during the cooling
period and after sterilization. Basket is used for sterile supplies in the operating room, prenatal
room and delivery room.
(10) Sterile storage.
(11) Expenditure counters.
(12) Clean basket storage area.

Reference:
HVAC Design Manual For Hospitals and Clinics, ASHRAE, 2003