Scrubs in Public
Health care personnel should change into street clothes whenever they leave the health care facility or when traveling between buildings located on separate campuses. Surgical attire may become contaminated by direct or indirect contact with the external environment.
UNITEX provides detailed reporting that tracks the wearing and laundering of employee uniforms and scrubs through bar coding technology.
Entering Restricted Areas
All individuals who enter semi restricted and restricted areas should wear freshly laundered surgical attire that is laundered at a health care-accredited laundry facility or disposable surgical attire provided by the facility or disposable surgical attire provided by the facility and intended for use within the preoperative setting.
With UNITEX each wearer will have their own designated scrub inventory insuring they will have scrubs every day, unlike pulling from a free-for-all shelving system.
Accredited Laundry
Surgical attire should be laundered in a health care accredited laundry facility.
TRSA Hygienically Clean offers voluntary accreditation for those laundry facilities that process reusable health care textile and which incorporate OSHA and the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) guidelines and professional association recommended practices.
Home Laundering
Home laundering has been shown to be less effective for cleaning surgical attire.
