Best Practices for Cleaning and Material Handling in Sterile Compounding Facilities

This webinar will clarify the cleaning and material handling requirements outlined in USP 797 and present additional best practice guidelines. It will discuss principles related to the selection, preparation and use of cleaning, disinfection and deactivation agents. The correct sequencing of critical activities related to daily and monthly cleaning of both primary and secondary engineering controls will be presented as well.

Why Should You Attend:

This webinar will detail why the USP Chapter < 797> is one of the mission critical cornerstones to the achievement and maintenance of the state of microbial control necessary to ensure safe patient care, along with:

Identifying cleaning and material handling requirements outlined in USP < 797>

• Discussing principles related to the selection, preparation and use of cleaning agents and supplies
• Sequencing accurately critical activities of daily and monthly cleaning
• Listing personnel safety, training and competency considerations
• Describing policy, procedure and documentation requirements

Areas Covered in the Webinar:

• Definitions and differences between cleaning, disinfecting, sanitizing and sporicidal
• Selection of agents to use to clean, disinfect and deactivate hazardous drug residues.
• The truth about microbial resistance as it relates to cleanrooms
• Sterile water vs. tap water
• Required use of germicidal detergent vs isopropyl alcohol
• Wipes: pre-saturated or dry; what is non-shedding?
• Cleaning materials and systems
• To use or not to use: anti-fatigue mats and tacky mats
• Garb selection and storage
• Daily cleaning of primary engineering controls
• Sequence of items to clean in secondary engineering controls in daily and monthly cleaning
• Additional cleaning requirements
• Isolator cleaning, changing sleeves, gloves
• New approaches: use of steam, UVGI and HPV
• Material handling requirements and best practices
• Staff training
• Documentation

Who Will Benefit:

This webinar will provide valuable information to those who run sterile compounding facilities and are responsible for the development and implementation of cleaning and material handling processes from a variety of settings such as:

• Hospitals
• Home infusion and alternate site providers
• Community based compounding pharmacies
• Pharmacy outsourcers and central fill operations
• Prescriber offices