Janitorial Checklist for Medical Offices (Free Printable)

Keep your clinic compliant and spotless with this practical janitorial checklist. It covers daily, weekly, and monthly duties for waiting areas, exam rooms, restrooms, clinical stations, labs, and breakrooms. Always follow your facility’s policies, state regulations, and the label instructions for all disinfectants.

What to Clean and How Often

Detailed Daily Checklist

Reception and Waiting Area

• Inspect floors and place wet floor signs when needed
• Disinfect counters, pens, clipboards, kiosks, door handles
• Clean glass doors and partitions
• Dust and spot clean chairs and side tables
• Vacuum entry mats and carpet or damp mop hard floors
• Empty trash and recycling, replace liners, sanitize cans

Exam Rooms

• Between patients remove paper covers and replace with new paper
• Disinfect exam table, chair arms, light handles, drawer pulls, counters
• Disinfect non-critical equipment surfaces following dwell time
• Restock gloves, paper, sanitizer, and wipes
• Spot clean walls and switches, mop floors at close

Restrooms

• Disinfect toilets, urinals, sinks, partitions, and fixtures
• Refill soap, paper towels, and toilet tissue
• Polish mirrors and wipe doors and handles
• Dust vents, sweep, and damp mop with hospital-grade disinfectant
• Empty trash and sanitary bins and replace liners

Clinical Stations

• Disinfect counters, phones, keyboards with approved wipes
• Sanitize cart handles and medication fridge handles
• Check sharps container fill lines and notify facility when near limit. Do not open or compact
• Remove regulated medical waste using red bags and store in the designated area

Lab and Procedure Rooms

• Disinfect work benches and splash zones
• Wipe equipment exteriors and keep eyewash area clear
• Stage biohazard waste per policy
• Mop floors with the approved disinfectant and allow the correct dwell time

Breakroom

• Disinfect tables, counters, sinks
• Clean appliance exteriors including fridge, microwave, and coffee maker
• Empty trash and recycling and replace liners
• Sweep and damp mop floors

Weekly Tasks

• High and low dusting on ledges, vents, tops of cabinets, and baseboards
• Deep clean waiting room seating and under cushions
• Machine scrub hard floors and detail grout edges
• Polish stainless steel and touch plates
• Thorough interior glass cleaning

Monthly or Periodic Tasks

• Carpet extraction on traffic lanes or full rooms as scheduled
• Strip and recoat or burnish finish floors per floor care plan
• Clean ceiling diffusers and light lenses where accessible
• Move and clean behind easily movable equipment and appliances
• Exterior and interior windows as contracted

Core Protocols and Safety

• Wear the required PPE and practice hand hygiene before and after tasks
• Use color-coded microfiber to prevent cross-contamination
• Respect the disinfectant contact time shown on the label
• Use separate tools or two-bucket method for restrooms and clinical areas
• Segregate regulated medical waste and never mix it with municipal trash
• Keep the SDS binder accessible and label all spray bottles
• Log all tasks with date, time, and initials in the cleaning sheet

Documentation and Quality Control

• Daily cleaning log signed by the technician
• Supervisor inspections with corrective actions
• Chemical inventory and SDS up to date
• Training records for new hires and annual refreshers
• Incident reporting for spills or exposure

Service Areas

Lebanon, West Lebanon, Hanover, Enfield (NH), White River Junction, Hartford, Norwich (VT) and nearby.

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