Hospital Flooring Solutions in Australia

Durable, hygienic, and compliant flooring designed for every hospital space.

Creating healing environments

Juliana Children's Hospital | Commercial flooring for hospitals guide

Flooring Designed for the Demands of Modern Healthcare

Hospitals are complex environments where each space has its own requirements. From sterile operating theatres to busy corridors and welcoming waiting rooms, flooring must support infection control, safety, durability, and patient comfort. Selecting the right solutions helps hospitals meet Australian Health Facility Guidelines (AusHFG), AS 4586 slip resistance standards, and sustainability targets set by Green Building Council Australia (GBCA). Selection of floor finishes requires consideration of multiple factors, sometimes calling for balance and/or compromise.

Considerations for hospital flooring:

Infection control: Seamless, easy-to-clean surfaces that reduce bacterial growth.
Safety & slip resistance: Essential for corridors, wet rooms, and patient care areas.
Comfort & acoustics: quiet, resilient flooring to reduce stress for patients and staff.
Compliance: flooring tested against Australian healthcare standards for fire, slip, and hygiene.
Sustainability: Hospitals increasingly seek products with low VOC emissions, third-party certifications (GECA, Best Practice PVC, Declare), and Green Star credits.

Flooring solutions applications across the Hospital

Wards & patient rooms

Flooring should be durable, easy-to-clean flooring that balances hygiene and comfort.

Recommended flooring

Sphera homogeneous vinyl – Seamless and hygienic; ideal for patient rooms and treatment areas.

Marmoleum – Natural linoleum, sustainable, and hygienic; suitable for hospitals seeking eco-friendly options.

Eternal heterogeneus vinyl – Seamless, hygienic, flexible designs for corridors, patient rooms.

Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital | Using Heterogenous vinyl in patient ward in a hospital

Corridors & waiting areas

Flooring in corridors and waiting areas should be able to handle high traffic and rolling loads, be easy to maintain, and colour options should support wayfinding and zoning. Fast flooring options reduce downtime in refurbishments.

Recommended flooring:

Sphera homogeneous vinyl – Seamless and hygienic.

Marmoleum – Natural linoleum, sustainable, and hygienic; suitable for hospitals seeking eco-friendly options.

Eternal heterogeneus vinyl – Seamless, hygienic, flexible designs for corridors.

Modul'up compact adhesive free vinyl – Fast flooring option reduce downtime in refurbishments.

Hospital flooring in corridors and waiting area | Forbo case study

Bathrooms & wet areas

Bathrooms, en-suites, patient showers, and other wet zones require slip-resistant flooring that can withstand constant moisture and frequent cleaning.

Recommended flooring:

Surestep Laguna – Safety vinyl with barefoot B rating meets requirements of AS 4586 guidelines for en-suites.

Onyx+ wall vinyl – wall covering choice for bathroom and showers

Surestep balance in healthcare flooring | Wall and flooring solution for hospital patient en suite warm earth

Operating theatres & clinical areas

Operating theatres and diagnostic imaging rooms require flooring that balances hygiene, static control, and patient comfort.

Before selecting a floor covering, it’s important to confirm whether the project brief specifies that these areas require the floor to be earthed. A fully conductive flooring system is required if the floor must actively discharge static electricity to ground. If not, an antistatic floor is often sufficient to meet the needs of the space. All Forbo flooring solutions are antistatic.

Recommended conductive flooring