NewZealand Sterile Services Association
NEW ZEALAND STERILE SERVICES ASSOCIATION
Te Ratonga Whakahoromata Taputapu o Aotearoa

Library

The NZSSA has the following material available for either borrowing or research. Contact person for library items is Sue Woods.

Available for borrowing:

VIDEOS

  • Sterilization - A view for insiders
  • Old Dogs & New Tricks - Royal Australasian College of Surgeons

DVDs

  • Sterilization - A view for insiders
  • Old Dogs & New Tricks -Royal Australasian College of Surgeons
  • Manual Handling

Available for research questions but not for borrowing:

BOOKS

  • Introduction to sterilization & disinfection - Joan F Gardner & Margaret M Peel. Publisher: Churchill Livingstone 1986
  • The Becton, Dickinson Lectures on sterilization – The curriculum in Bacteriology at Seton Hall College of Medicine & Dentistry. Presented during the academic years 1957 – 1959
  • EO Training manual - Mermed Australia Pty Ltd 1992

Available for research questions but not for borrowing:

STANDARDS & GUIDELINES

  • AS/NZS 4187:2003 - Cleaning, disinfection and sterilizing reusable medical and surgical instruments and equipment, and maintenance of associated environments in health care facilities.
  • ISO 17665-1:2006 Sterilization of health care products – Moist heat. Part 1 Requirements for the development, validation and routine control of a sterilization process for medical devices.
  • AS/NZS ISO 11137.1.2006 Requirements for development, validation and routine control of a sterilization process for medical devices.
  • Creutzfeldt – Jacob Disease & other Human Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies. Guidelines on patient management & infection control National Health & Medical Research Council 1996
  • Standard for the operation of sterile supply/services in health care facilities. National Co-ordinating Committee on Therapeutic Goods 1995
  • Health Technical Memorandum 2010 Part 1.1994: Management Policy Sterilization
  • Health Technical Memorandum 2010 Part 3. 1994: Validation & Verification Sterilization
  • Safe use of Ethylene Oxide in Sterilization/Fumigation processes Worksafe Australia 1992
  • NSW Infection Control Policy for HIV, AIDs & Associated Conditions AIDs bureau 1992
  • Hospital Acquired Infections: guidelines to laboratory methods World Health Organisation 1978