Technical guidelines

Our technical guidelines provide information to assist health services, consultants and contractors to effectively manage the risk and performance of Victoria’s public health facilities.

The following technical guidelines are available from the documents section at the bottom of the page:

Asset management

• Asset management policy

Engineering

Engineering guidelines for healthcare facilities:

• Volume 1 – Fundamentals (HTG-2020-001)
• Volume 2 – Electrical and lighting (HTG-2020-002)
• Volume 3 – Data, comms and security (HTG-2020-003)
• Volume 4 – Heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HTG-2020-004)
• Volume 5 – Fire and hydraulics (HTG-2020-005)
• Volume 6 – Specialist healthcare engineering and provisions (HTG-2020-006)
• Reference tables 1 and 2
• Reference table 3

Health technical advice

• Increasing bed capacity for COVID-19 patients (HTA-2020-003)
• Infrastructure activities during the coronavirus pandemic (HTA-2020-002)
• Isolation rooms (HTA-2020-004)
• HVAC system strategies to airborne infectious outbreaks (HTA-2020-001)
• Response to humidity control events in sterile areas (HTA-2019-001)
• Selection of revolving doors for health care facilities (HTA-2020-006)

Property

• Guidelines for helicopter medical transport landing sites
• Property management and governance guidelines

Hospital heliport flight path protection - Technical helipad flight path reports

Metropolitan helipads:

• Alfred Hospital technical heliport flight path report
• Frankston Hospital technical heliport flight path report
• Monash Medical Centre Clayton technical heliport flight path report
• Royal Children’s Hospital technical heliport flight path report
• Royal Melbourne Hospital technical heliport flight path report

Regional helipads:

• Ararat Hospital technical heliport flight path report
• Bacchus Hospital Marsh technical heliport flight path report
• Bairnsdale Hospital technical heliport flight path report
• Bendigo Hospital technical heliport flight path report
• Charlton Hospital technical heliport flight path report
• Cohuna Hospital technical heliport flight path report
• Donald Hospital technical heliport flight path report
• Heathcote Hospital technical heliport flight path report
• Kerang Hospital technical heliport flight path report
• Kyneton Hospital technical heliport flight path report
• St Arnaud Hospital technical heliport flight path report
• Stawell Hospital technical heliport flight path report
• Warragul Hospital technical heliport flight path report
• Wycheproof Hospital technical heliport flight path report

Sustainability

• Guidelines for sustainability in capital works
• Waste audit guidelines
• Clinical waste guidelines - Supplement for healthcare staff
• Solar array maintenance checklist
• Solar array self-assessment checklist
• Reporting solar photovoltaic data