Cleaning Dental Suite

Arlo Guthrie — Wed, 27 Sep 2023 13:51:06 GMT

Current Revision posted to Veterinary Standard Operating Procedures by Arlo Guthrie on 9/27/2023 1:51:06 PM

Daily In house cleaning:

Clean the worktops, cupboard doors, dental table, table top and mat, walls, window blinds, anaesthetic machine and dental machine with an appropriate disinfectant (see appendix A)
Clean, tidy and organise the worktop.
Empty the clinical waste bin and send for incineration.
Normal waste bin is emptied and collected once every 3 weeks.
Sharps bins are collected for incineration once full, and the sharps bin is replaced.
The windows are cleaned with glass cleaner (see appendix A)
Sweep and mop the floors with an appropriate disinfectant (see appendix A).
Clean, tidy and organise the dental drawers.
Restock consumables – disposable gloves, cotton wool, suture material, scalpel blades.

Weekly In house cleaning:

Empty the air compressor on the dental machine as per manufacturer’s guidelines.

Appendix - Disinfectants

We use Anigene as our disinfectant.
It is made up daily for kennels and cattery in yellow buckets at a concentration rate of 1:100 (10ml Anigene to 1ltr water).
We have spray bottles with 1:100 concentration in consult rooms, pharmacy, prep room, dental, laboratory, kennels, cattery, radiography, theatres. It is used to clean surfaces between each patient.
We use a concentration on 1:100 to clean all floors, made up daily and disposed of correctly at the end of the day. Yellow bucket and yellow mops: kennels, cattery, waiting room. Green bucket and green mops: prep room, radiography, dental, scrub. Blue bucket and blue mops: both theatres.
For cleaning isolation, we made up Anigene at a concentration of 1:50 in spray bottles, bucket and mop bucket
Red bucket and red mops – Isolation
Mop heads are washed in the washing machine at 60.c after each use.
Clean all windows and glass daily with Flash Anti-bac Plus.

Prepared by VetNurse.co.uk. V1. 26/9/2023

Arlo Guthrie — Wed, 27 Sep 2023 13:50:10 GMT

Revision 2 posted to Veterinary Standard Operating Procedures by Arlo Guthrie on 9/27/2023 1:50:10 PM

Daily In house cleaning:

Clean the worktops, cupboard doors, dental table, table top and mat, walls, window blinds, anaesthetic machine and dental machine with an appropriate disinfectant (see appendix A)
Clean, tidy and organise the worktop.
Empty the clinical waste bin and send for incineration.
Normal waste bin is emptied and collected once every 3 weeks.
Sharps bins are collected for incineration once full, and the sharps bin is replaced.
The windows are cleaned with glass cleaner (see appendix A)
Sweep and mop the floors with an appropriate disinfectant (see appendix A).
Clean, tidy and organise the dental drawers.
Restock consumables – disposable gloves, cotton wool, suture material, scalpel blades.

Weekly In house cleaning:

Empty the air compressor on the dental machine as per manufacturer’s guidelines.

Appendix - Disinfectants

We use Anigene as our disinfectant.
It is made up daily for kennels and cattery in yellow buckets at a concentration rate of 1:100 (10ml Anigene to 1ltr water).
We have spray bottles with 1:100 concentration in consult rooms, pharmacy, prep room, dental, laboratory, kennels, cattery, radiography, theatres. It is used to clean surfaces between each patient.
We use a concentration on 1:100 to clean all floors, made up daily and disposed of correctly at the end of the day. Yellow bucket and yellow mops: kennels, cattery, waiting room. Green bucket and green mops: prep room, radiography, dental, scrub. Blue bucket and blue mops: both theatres.
For cleaning isolation, we made up Anigene at a concentration of 1:50 in spray bottles, bucket and mop bucket
Red bucket and red mops – Isolation
Mop heads are washed in the washing machine at 60.c after each use.
Clean all windows and glass daily with Flash Anti-bac Plus.

Prepared by VetNurse.co.uk. V1. 26/9/2023

Download "Cleaning Dental Suite" as a Word doc here.

Arlo Guthrie — Wed, 27 Sep 2023 11:30:27 GMT

Revision 1 posted to Veterinary Standard Operating Procedures by Arlo Guthrie on 9/27/2023 11:30:27 AM

Daily In house cleaning:

The worktops, cupboard doors, dental table, table top and mat, walls, window blinds, anaesthetic machine and dental machine are cleaned with an appropriate disinfectant (see appendix A)
Clean, tidy and organise the worktop.
Clinical waste bin is emptied and sent for incinerated.
Normal waste bin is emptied and collected once every 3 weeks
Sharps bin are collected for incineration once full, and the sharps bin is replaced
The windows are cleaned with glass cleaner (see appendix A)
The floors are swept and mopped with an appropriate disinfectant (see appendix A).
Clean, tidy and organise the dental drawers.
Restock consumables – disposable gloves, cotton wool, suture material, scalpel blades.

Weekly In house cleaning:

The air compressor on the dental machine is emptied as per manufacturer’s guidelines

Prepared by VetNurse.co.uk. V1. 26/9/2023

Download "Cleaning Dental Suite" as a Word doc here.