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The purpose of this study was to examine the state of infection control among employees in charge of the dental supply room in an effort to determine how to ensure the efficient implementation of infection control standard. The subjects in this study were every employee in charge of the dental supply room in a university hospital located in Gyeonggi Province, who numbered 20. A self-administered survey was conducted from June 1 to 30, 2015. The findings of the study were as follows: 1. As for the responses of the subjects on the danger of infectious diseases, the largest group that numbered 11(55.0%) considered hepatitis B to be most dangerous, followed by AIDS(four respondents, 20.0%) and influenza(three, 15.0%). Tuberculosis and viral dermatitis were respectively pointed out by one employee(5.0%). As for medical examination by interview about infectious diseases, 18 respondents(90.0%) answered it should be done every time, and two(10.0%) replied, "Not necessarily." Every respondent answered the responsibility of infection control lay with dentists and the dental staff. 2; Regarding the awareness of the subjects on infection control, they gave the highest average score of 4.75 to the item "Every glove for medical use should be discarded after its use during treatment." And they gave the lowest mean score of 3.6 to the item "A new mask should be used whenever there's a new patient." 3. As to their practice of infection control, they gave the highest average score of 4.63 to the item "Every glove for medical use should be discarded after its use during treatment." And they gave the lowest mean score of 3.63 to the item "I change my uniform after treating a patient who has an infectious disease." 4. They gave a mean of 3.47 when their expectations were asked before they received infection control education, and they gave 4,13 when their satisfaction level was asked after that education. They gave 4.2 respectively when their understanding and substantiality of what they learned and their understanding of the education were asked. 5. Before they received the infection control education, they gave a mean of 4.12 to the importance of infection control duties, but they gave a higher score of 4.24 after that education. Their score in efforts to carry out the infection control process was 3.94 before that education and rose to 4.24 after that. Their scores in errors in job performance in the dental supply room was 3.35 before the education, and then dropped to 0.76 after that.