The person who performs the bedside precleaning process should wear an enhanced set of personal protective equipment (PPE) and, in order to make best use of available PPE, that person can be the assistant who is already wearing appropriate PPE. In such a situation, the person in the reprocessing room may wear standard PPE ( Fig. 2 ) 1 . When the additional safety measures can only be performed in the reprocessing room, the person responsible must wear an enhanced set of PPE.