A laundry is a building with a line drawn through it — and in a well-run plant that line is literal: a barrier washing machine built into the wall between the hazardous linen room and the clean side. Cross that line carelessly and freshly laundered hotel or hospital linen carries the very contamination it was sent to remove.
Why laundries are a public health frontline
Commercial laundries process soiled, and sometimes infectious, textiles at industrial scale. Hospitals, hotels and inspectors expect proof: validated wash temperatures, separated air flows, protective clothing and documented sanitation schedules. Without them, contracts and permits are both at risk.
What the AGS guideline covers
The AGS Hygiene & Sanitation Guidelines for Laundries and Laundry Depots are the international normalization of source regulation PHC-C-13, aligned with EN 14065 and its RABC biocontamination control method. Across 34 sections it engineers hygiene into the building and the process:
- Zoning and the clean/dirty divide — rooms, doors, airflow and pressure regime
- Thermal disinfection wash formulas and wash process verification
- The complete hazardous linen barrier regime, from delivery to after the wash
- Dry cleaning operations, solvent handling, storage and disposal
- The Master Sanitation Schedule with fixed cleaning frequencies
- Laundry depots — dedicated use, separation and prohibited receipts
The annexes make the system auditable on day one: source-preserved process and facility parameters, a wash formula record template to complete per linen class, the hazardous linen handling sequence formatted to post in the hazardous room, zone and traffic rules, depot requirement tables, an inspection checklist and a jurisdictional adaptation register.
Who benefits
Laundry operators gain a defensible biocontamination system; hospital and hotel clients gain assurance; depot owners and inspectors gain clear, preserved rules for every link in the chain.
Get the Guideline
Draw the line before an outbreak draws it for you. Download the AGS Laundries and Laundry Depots guideline — instant download, fully editable Microsoft Word document, ready to structure your plant and your paperwork. Like every document in the AGS Technical Guidelines Library, it arrives as a clean, professionally structured file you can rebrand, adapt and issue as your establishment's own controlled document — no waiting, no shipping, no formatting work.
Product: Laundries and Laundry Depots — available as an instant-download, fully editable package from AGS (SKU AGS-05-005).