A perspective study on green cleaning for Malaysian public hospital

3rd International Conference on Research Methodology for Built Environment and Engineering 2017

生态环境科学

Ramli, N.A.^1,2 ; Zawawi, E.M.^1 ; Arif, N.R.M.^1 ; Mahbob, N.S.^2 ; Sulaiman, Z.^2 ; Zainol, N.N.^3

Faculty of Surveying, Planning and Architecture, UiTM Shah Alam, Shah Alam, Malaysia^1

Lee Kong Chian Faculty of Engineering and Science, Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman, Sungai Long, Cheras, Malaysia^2

Department of Urban Studies, Imperia Institute of Technology, Malaysia^3

关键词: Cleaning products;    Hospital buildings;    Index calculation;    Indoor environmental quality;    Maintenance management;    Maintenance staff;    Operations and maintenance;    Questionnaire surveys;   

Others  :  https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1755-1315/117/1/012017/pdf
DOI  :  10.1088/1755-1315/117/1/012017

学科分类：环境科学（综合）

来源: IOP

【 摘 要 】

Cleaning being a major contributor to the operations and maintenance expenditure and also Indoor Environmental Quality (IEQ) issues. Improper and ineffective cleaning can harm the environment and poses greatest risk to health. The use of traditional cleaning products presents a variety of human health and ecological concerns; and may contribute to poor IEQ. As an effort to reduce the issue of operations and maintenance costs and IEQ issues in a building, it is important to establish a green cleaning programme to ensure that the buildings are cleaned in a green way. Numbers of scholars has pointed out the factors which had prevented the green cleaning implementation in hospital buildings. Nonetheless, the significance of these factors has yet to be practically explored in the Malaysian context. Hence, the aim of the paper is to identify the most critical factor that prevents the implementation of green cleaning in Malaysian hospital building. A questionnaire survey and personal communication (i.e. interview) was conducted which involved two groups of respondents. They are the hospital maintenance staff (Cleansing Service Department) and cleaning contractors. Frequency and criticality index calculations have been used to rank these factors according to the level of importance. The result showed that an "unclear components and requirements of green cleaning" indicated as the most critical factor that prevent the implementation of green cleaning in Malaysian hospital building. In the concern for a successful implementation of green cleaning, it is hope that the findings of these studies can be enlightenment to the cleaning contractors as well as the hospital maintenance management team in Malaysia.