Environmental Services
Environmental Services (EVS) play a critical role in preventing the spread of germs that can cause illness in both patients and healthcare personnel. Effective EVS practices are essential to reduce healthcare-associated infections and support overall infection prevention and control efforts
This page contains environmental infection prevention resources and education for healthcare professionals
The following links are APIC and external resources on EVS
APIC Tools
- APIC Environment Checklist
APIC Text
- APIC Text (subscription required)
Education and Training
APIC offers a comprehensive collection of clinical education and professional development programs. The following resources are educational opportunities related to environmental services. Visit the Education & Certification page for more educational opportunities.
- Environmental Cleaning: Roles and Responsibilities—APIC Webinar
- How Clean is Clean? The Challenges of Disinfecting Porous and Nonporous Surfaces in Healthcare Environments—APIC Webinar
- “Best” Practices for Surface Disinfection—APIC Webinar
- Knowledge to Action in the Healthcare Environment: Critical Competencies—APIC Webinar
- Role of surfaces in the transmission of emerging healthcare-associated pathogens: norovirus, C. difficile and Acinetobacter spp—APIC Webina
AJIC articles
Search the American Journal of Infection Control (AJIC) website for more articles on environmental services. To access these articles, you need to first login to the APIC website. Additionally, you can search the AJIC website for articles from the Environmental Hygiene Article Collection.
External resources
- CDC – Environmental Services
- CDC – EVS and the Battle Against Infection
- CDC – Considerations for Reducing Risk: Surfaces in Healthcare Facilities
- CDC – Environmental Cleaning Procedures
- Association for the Health Care Environment (AHE) – Project Firstline EVS Cleaning
- WHO – Environmental Cleaning and Infection Prevention and Control in Healthcare Facilities in low-and middle-income countries