Resources
Practical guides, a glossary and a free terminal cleaning checklist. Our first guides are for hospitals, where cleaning is hardest to prove. Every fact links to its source, and every guide lists them at the end.
Guides
Guide
How to verify terminal cleaning
Visual checks, fluorescent markers and ATP testing, who should test, and what a defensible record includes.
Guide
Fluorescent markers vs ATP testing
What each method measures, why they disagree on the same rooms, and how to record results that hold up.
Guide
Disinfectant contact time
What contact time means on a disinfectant's label, why the surface must stay wet, and how to show it was met.
Guide
Why ATP readings differ between meters
Why an RLU threshold belongs to one meter model, and what to record with every reading.
Guide
A non-punitive cleaning monitoring program
Who tests, how often, how to give feedback without blame, and what to report to leadership.
Terminal cleaning checklist
A free checklist for the terminal clean of a patient room, including isolation rooms. Print it, or adapt it to your facility's protocol.
Glossary
Plain definitions of the terms in this field, from cleaning checklists and spot checks to terminal cleaning, contact time and ATP testing.