HEALTHCARE HYGIENE
ACCELERATING THE RACE AGAINST INFECTIONS
Infection prevention is the surest way to ensure that patients, staff and visitors of healthcare facilities are kept safe. With that in mind, Diversey Care explains how its Oxivir range of disinfectants can help keep these environments germ-free.
Protecting patients, staff and visitors from infections is a critical requirement in healthcare settings. The challenge facing cleaning teams is to deliver effective, safe and sustainable cleaning and disinfection solutions while meeting this objective. Innovations that represent highly effective alternatives to traditional products and enable new ways of working are increasingly popular with healthcare cleaning professionals.
Diversey Care was one of the first cleaning and hygiene specialists to recognise the disinfection performance of patented AHP when it first incorporated this unique active ingredient into some of its healthcare products almost a decade ago.
Disinfectants containing AHP are highly effective against a wide range of viruses, spores, yeasts, and fungi found in healthcare settings, including Clostridium difficile (C. diff), MRSA, Norovirus, E. coli, and Pseudomonas aeruginosa. This broad-spectrum efficacy has been tested to the latest EN standards.
The active AHP ingredient degrades to oxygen and water alone shortly after use which helps make the product safer to use than chlorine-based products which are suspected of aggravating asthma and forming chlorine compounds in the atmosphere. It also means that products can be used on a wider range of surfaces, including wool and other fabrics, with reduced risk of damage.
AHP is the active ingredient in established Diversey Care products including Oxivir Plus, which is now available in a new and improved formula called Oxivir Excel. Some of the improvements include lower concentration, better cost-in-use and shorter contact times. This fast-acting
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cleaner/disinfectant for routine and daily tasks is available in a number of formats including the company’s highly sustainable ultra-concentrate SmartDose platform.
Another popular product is Oxivir Sporicide (a new and improved formula for Sporicide Plus), a ready- to-use liquid surface disinfectant that is ideal for rapid-response applications such as the removal of blood and body fluid spills. Uniquely it is effective against viruses, spores (including C. diff), yeasts and fungi in just one minute, meeting demand for highly effective products with shorter contact or dwell times.
Oxivir Wipes containing AHP are another new addition to the extensive Diversey Care range. These are convenient, ready-to-use disposable wipes that are ideal for occasional use, dealing with localised spillages and when other AHP products are impractical or unavailable.
All Oxivir products are ideal for routine and daily tasks as well as dealing with contaminated body spillages, controlling pathogen outbreaks and cleaning high risk infection areas.
In addition to its Oxivir range, Diversey Care offers a complete set of disinfectants and sanitisers with proven infection prevention performance in healthcare and similar applications. The wide choice of products available allows customers to specify the formulations that are ideal for their particular requirements.
Diversey Care also offers products, training and expertise to support hand hygiene in facilities around the world. The company’s Soft Care range, for example, includes soaps and hand-washes for regular washroom applications that are formulated to be effective and economical while being gentle and pleasant to use.
The range includes formulations for applications where hand disinfection is required. Soft Care Des E H5, for example, is a hand-rub disinfectant with a unique blend of ethanol and moisturisers. It is ideal for healthcare but also provides excellent protection in any kind of setting against Norovirus,
E.coli, Influenza, rotavirus, hepatitis B, HIV, MRSA and many other common infections.
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