Preface
This is the second edition of CSA Z317.13, Infection control during construction, renovation, and maintenance of health care facilities. It supersedes the previous edition, published in 2003 under the title Infection Control during Construction or Renovation of Health Care Facilities. It is part of a series of Standards related to health care facility engineering and sets forth preventive measures intended to protect patients, staff, and visitors from disease transmission and other health problems, such as allergic reactions, that can be produced by the construction, renovation, or maintenance of health care facilities.
Scope
1.1
This Standard describes precautionary and remedial measures for preventing exposure to agents released or augmented because of actions undertaken during health care facility construction, renovation, maintenance, and repair work.
1.2
This Standard is intended to apply to the activities of
(a) architects;
(b) engineers;
(c) commissioning teams;
(d) constructors (as defined in Clause 3);
(e) infection prevention and control personnel;
(f) planning and project managers;
(g) facility managers and maintenance managers;
(h) environmental services staff;
(i) health care staff;
(j) occupational health hygiene professionals; and
(k) operations and maintenance staff involved in any aspect of construction, renovation, or maintenance of health care facilities.
1.3
This Standard has been developed for use during the project specification phase of construction, renovation, and maintenance projects and as a guideline for preventing and controlling fungal and bacterial infections during the implementation of such projects.
1.4
In CSA Standards, shall is used to express a requirement, i.e., a provision that the user is obliged to satisfy in order to comply with the standard; should is used to express a recommendation or that which is advised but not required; may is used to express an option or that which is permissible within the limits of the standard; and can is used to express possibility or capability. Notes accompanying clauses do not include requirements or alternative requirements; the purpose of a note accompanying a clause is to separate from the text explanatory or informative material. Notes to tables and figures are considered part of the table or figure and may be written as requirements. Annexes are designated normative (mandatory) or informative (non-mandatory) to define their application.
