EVIDENCE AND CRITERIA

Entrance Hygiene glossary

Essential definitions for Pet Entry Hygiene, Footwear Hygiene and Building Entry Hygiene.

Entrance Hygiene

Strategies, behaviours and systems that manage the outdoor-to-indoor transition at the point of entry.

Routines and systems for managing paws on return, with attention to dirt, moisture, comfort and animal compatibility.

Management of dirt, moisture and material carried by footwear, keeping visible cleaning, particulate removal and disinfection distinct.

Entrance design considering traffic, walk-off systems, maintenance, safety, accessibility and potential dedicated technologies.

A passive entry system — grille, mat or dedicated surface — that uses multiple steps to intercept material from shoe soles.

A term used in building standards for permanent systems installed at entrances to capture dirt and particulates.

Transfer of material or microorganisms from one surface to another. It does not automatically mean infection or health harm.

Material carried indoors on footwear, wheels, paws or other physical vectors.

The specific result a test measures, such as moisture removed, particulate captured, transit time or microbiological reduction.

A trial in a real or realistic setting used to test technical performance and operational feasibility before wider deployment.

An approach that manages a contaminant or load at its origin or entry point before it spreads through a larger environment.

The area immediately around an entrance where interception, cleaning, drying, storage or other entry routines can be organised.