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Environmental Hygiene in Collaboration with Outsourced Staff

Megumi MEZAKI
Medical Safety Management, Uonuma Kikan Hospital, Niigata Prefectural Community Medicine Institute

Environmental hygiene is an important factor in controlling healthcare associated infections. Most healthcare facilities in Japan outsource environmental hygiene work such as cleaning, and not only hospital staff but also outsourced staff assume an important role in healthcare-related infection control. Improving the quality of environmental hygiene cannot be expected by outsourced staff alone unless infection control personnel are actively involved. We have built a team to respond to environmental hygiene and have developed a system for hospital staff and outsourced staff to work together. As a result, the sense of purpose of the outsourced staff and the quality of environmental hygiene have improved. Our team has ever controlled outbreaks from drug-resistant bacteria, influenza, and CD infections. It is suggested that the activities and systems of our team have been successful.

Key words：environmental hygiene, outsourcing, team

e-mail: m-mezaki＠ncmi.or.jp

Received: November 3, 2020
Accepted: March 10, 2021

36 (4)：190─195,2021