Sanifield offers fast, dependable, and cost-effective health & medical facility cleaning solutions, exceeding routine standards for healthcare settings. Our evidence-based cleaning practices aim to reduce bioburden in health and business facilities so you, your staff, customers, and visitors can enter with confidence.
Assessment
The level of infection transmission risk differs greatly across healthcare settings, so preliminary and ongoing risk assessment is a key operational element in the deployment of our health & medical facility cleaning services.
Quality Standard
The health & medical facility cleaning services supplied by Sanifield conform to the rigorous and comprehensive standard defined in the NHMRC guidelines on infection prevention and control.8
Sanifield staff are thoroughly trained in hand hygiene, have a working knowledge of breaking the contact transmission pathway and understand the role of environmental cleaning and hand hygiene in breaking the chain of transmission.
Breaking The Chain of Transmission
All health & medical facility cleaning operations are supervised by in-house IPC leads who are health qualified, infection prevention and control qualified and are members of the Australasian College for Infection Prevention and Control.
Health Facility Business Case
Overburdened staff cannot clean effectively. Healthcare-Associated Infections (HAI) are costly (HAI: up to 10x the cost of hospitalisation) and dangerous, often arising from insufficient cleaning due to overburdened staff. These infections can harbor antibiotic-resistant organisms such as like MRSA, VRE, C.diff. and tuberculosis [TB], posing a serious economic and health threat.
As “operationally engaged stakeholders,” we help:
- Manage outbreaks and resistance
- Improve patient outcomes
- Reduce HAI’s and antibiotic resistance
- Reduce healthcare costs
- Resource allocation
- Ensure alignment with national initiatives for antibiotic stewardship.
Published studies demonstrate the importance of cleaning in outbreaks and underscore the role that environmental contamination plays in the transmission of HAI.3,6
Numerous studies confirm that enhanced cleaning effectively decreases environmental burden from various HAI linked pathogens. 1,2,4,5,7
National guidelines endorse the importance of environmental cleaning and the requirement for quality-assurance audit.
| Maintenance Cleaning | Environmental Cleaning |
| Swift, targeted cleaning designed to keep facilities hygienic and tidy between standard cleans. This service is ideal for high-traffic zones like busy offices, shared workspaces, public reception areas, or childcare activity rooms. What’s Included: • Spot vacuuming and sweeping of visible debris • Quick wipe-down of desks and frequently touched surfaces • Emptying of commonly used bins • Basic sanitisation of kitchenette sinks and restroom fixtures • Disinfection of high-touch points – door handles, switches, taps, etc A rapid, high-frequency cleaning option to keep your space looking fresh while reducing the spread of germs. | Reliable and thorough daily or weekly cleaning to keep your facility pristine, hygienic, and professional. This scalable and all-inclusive service is for offices and public-facing environments requiring consistent presentation and hygiene. What’s Included: • Floors: Vacuuming and mopping of all accessible areas • Surfaces: Deep sanitisation of desks, counters, and communal workspaces • Waste: Emptying and relining of all rubbish and recycling bins • Amenities: Full sanitisation of kitchenettes and restrooms • Glass: Spot cleaning of internal glass doors and partitions The dependable foundation for routine facility cleanliness, keeps everything are pristine, hygienic, and visually appealing. |
| Deep Cleaning | Infection Prevention & Control |
| This detailed, time-intensive top-to-bottom clean goes beyond routine service, it resets a facility to a “like new” condition and tackles accumulated dirt, dust, and grime in overlooked areas. What’s Included: • Deep scrubbing and descaling of kitchen and bathroom fixtures (including grout) • Moving and cleaning behind or inside appliances and furniture (where accessible) • High dusting, spot cleaning of walls, skirting boards, and ledges • Carpet extraction and polishing of hard flooring • Internal window and glass partition detailing Methodical, detailed high-impact, professional-grade clean for spaces that need more than just maintenance, ideal for quarterly resets, pre-post event clean-ups, preparing for inspections. | For facility areas where hygiene compliance is mandatory and operationally critical. IPC Cleaning follows Australian evidence-based infection control protocols and is supervised by experienced IPC-certified supervisors. What’s Included: • Comprehensive disinfection of all surfaces and high-touch points, ensuring the correct dwell time for pathogen kill. • Risk-assessed, tailored cleaning processes supervised by IPC-certified staff • Detailed logs and documentation for compliance, auditing, and reporting • Evidence based, meticulous cleaning methods that are tailored to the environment A meticulous, regulated cleaning that actively target pathogens in high-risk and health-sensitive health/medical/laboratory and care facilities where hygiene and compliance are not optional. |
Refences (Alphabetic)
1 (7). Boyce JM, Havill NL, Dumigan DG, Golebiewski M, Balogun O, Rizvani R. Monitoring the effectiveness of hospital cleaning practices by use of an adenosine triphosphate bioluminescence assay. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 2009; 30(7): 678–84. doi:10.1086/598243
2 (5). Cooper RA, Griffith CJ, Malik RE, Obee P, Looker N. Monitoring the effectiveness of cleaning in four British hospitals. Am J Infect Control 2007; 35(5): 338–41. doi:10.1016/j.ajic.2006.07.015
3. Dancer SJ. Hospital cleaning in the 21st century. Eur J Clin Microbiol Infect Dis 2011; 30: 1473–81. doi:10.1007/s10096-011-1250-x
4. Dancer SJ, White LF, Lamb J, Girvan EK, Robertson C. Measuring the effect of enhanced cleaning in a UK hospital: a prospective cross-over study. BMC Med 2009; 7(1): 28. doi:10.1186/1741-7015-7-28
5. Griffith CJ, Obee P, Cooper RA, Burton NF, Lewis M. The effectiveness of existing and modified cleaning regimens in a Welsh hospital. J Hosp Infect 2007; 66(4): 352–9. doi:10.1016/j.jhin.2007.05.016
6. Hardy KJ, Oppenheim BA, Gossain S, Gao F, Hawkey PM. A study of the relationship between environmental contamination with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and patients’ acquisition of MRSA. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 2006; 27(2): 127–32. doi:10.1086/500622
7. Hayden MK, Bonten MJM, Blom DW, LyleEA,van de Vijver DAMC, Weinstein RA. Reduction in acquisition of vancomycin-resistant enterococcus after enforcement of routine environmental cleaning measures. Clin Infect Dis 2006; 42(11): 1552–60. doi:10.1086/503845
8. National Health & Medical Research Council. Australian Guidelines for the Prevention and Control of Infection in Healthcare. Canberra: NHMRC; 2019.
