Purpose and boundary
Healthcare organisations can use this playbook for non-clinical display, wayfinding and campaign graphics. It keeps the graphic construction and retained supports visible while the responsible healthcare team controls the actual clinical, infection-prevention, cleaning, fire and site requirements. It provides no clinical advice or substitute cleaning protocol.
Required starting information
Healthcare organisations should begin by establishing responsible site, facilities and healthcare review roles and location and audience with necessary privacy controls. Define site-approved graphic service, cleanability questions and controlled changeovers in healthcare settings. Use the remaining inputs below to define who may make, record and review the graphic decisions.
- Responsible site, facilities and healthcare review roles
- Location and audience with necessary privacy controls
- Approved message and accessible information requirements
- Actual care, cleaning and surface compatibility questions
- Complete graphic construction and retained fixture identity
- Authorised installation, removal and retirement arrangements
Working method
Start with the site’s actual service and approved procedures. State where the graphic will be used, the required duration, how messages change and which responsibilities must approve the application.
Describe face, ink, finish, adhesive, backing, edges and fixings together. Ask suppliers for evidence addressing the site’s specified conditions, and direct cleaning or clinical interpretation to the responsible healthcare reviewers.
Inspect retained supports and assess changing faces only where compatibility and site requirements allow it. Record any authorised representative trial with its method and limits; an informal observation does not create a test rating.
Plan a controlled changeover with approved content, actual assembly version, access arrangements and clear responsibility for old material. Keep patient or personal information outside the public project record unless the actual authorised purpose requires it.
Record fitted versions, maintenance issues and removed batches. Reassess compatibility after a material or procedure change and request an accepted destination for the actual construction and condition.
Evidence and handover
The handover for healthcare organisations should answer: Who approved the site-specific application and care conditions? Does the evidence cover the supplied finish and attachment? Keep the relevant source versions and named decisions with those answers so the next team can distinguish a proposed action from a recorded outcome.
- Who approved the site-specific application and care conditions?
- Does the evidence cover the supplied finish and attachment?
- What retained component remains suitable for the next use?
- Which removed material and destination are actually confirmed?
Scope and limitations
A material-family note does not establish clinical suitability or infection-control performance.
Environmental preference cannot override the responsible site’s service and safety requirements.
No antimicrobial, hygiene, fire or cleaning claim is inferred from a generic source link.
Method
- Start with the site’s actual service and approved procedures. State where the graphic will be used, the required duration, how messages change and which responsibilities must approve the application.
- Describe face, ink, finish, adhesive, backing, edges and fixings together. Ask suppliers for evidence addressing the site’s specified conditions, and direct cleaning or clinical interpretation to the responsible healthcare reviewers.
- Inspect retained supports and assess changing faces only where compatibility and site requirements allow it. Record any authorised representative trial with its method and limits; an informal observation does not create a test rating.
- Plan a controlled changeover with approved content, actual assembly version, access arrangements and clear responsibility for old material. Keep patient or personal information outside the public project record unless the actual authorised purpose requires it.
- Record fitted versions, maintenance issues and removed batches. Reassess compatibility after a material or procedure change and request an accepted destination for the actual construction and condition.
