WATER HYGIENE
Use Water for Hygiene
Green World Innovations tell us how using water to clean can improve hygiene standards in any care facility, especially when it comes to infection prevention.
Cleaning to an extremely high level and ensuring that the spread of bacteria is kept to an absolute minimum needs to be constantly monitored and managed by the cleaning team in all care settings.
Traditionally cleaning care homes and maintaining the levels of hygiene required is achieved by using a number of chemicals for different areas of the home which involves careful storage of the harmful materials, a knowledge of COSHH, room for mixing and diluting before using, and in-depth training for staff about how to use chemicals around the care home residents.
It has now been identified that actually a better and more cost effective way to achieve the required hygiene standards could be by removing chemicals and simply using water, more specifically Stabilised Aqueous Ozone – cold tap water that is infused with ozone via a stabiliser to produce a sanitiser that is 50% stronger than bleach and 50% more powerful than chlorine.
One care home group that has limited its amount of chemical resilience for cleaning is Gwalia Care in Wales. So far, the Tersano lotus® PRO (the machine that makes Stabilised
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Aqueous Ozone) has been installed into their new 65 bed residential home Plas Bryn Rhosyn in Neath Port Talbot, but there are plans to roll it out into the company’s other care homes.
Tony Rowland, Gwalia Care’s Facilities Manager commented: “We are currently using Stabilised Aqueous Ozone to clean all surfaces throughout the home excluding the kitchen area. This includes floors, walls, touch points, client rooms, laundry rooms, hairdressers, offices and more.
“It definitely cleans as well as traditional chemicals. We regularly use ATYP testing to monitor the cleanliness and the results have been excellent. It’s also much simpler for the staff to use - there’s no more COSHH to worry about, no more risk of using the wrong chemicals for a particular task and no hefty cleaning materials bill to think about either.”
By using only water to clean and by removing chemicals, residents in the care home, as well as the cleaners themselves, benefit significantly.
Staff with skin problems or allergies won’t need to worry about skin reactions or conditions triggered by chemicals such as asthma and there’s no potential threat of residents having an allergic reaction if they
come into contact with cleaning equipment or cleaned areas. Stabilised Aqueous Ozone is 100% natural and so can be spilt onto skin or clothes with no adverse effects – it is so natural you could even drink it.
Consideration also has to be given to the environment when using chemicals in order to meet hygiene standards. Once cleaners have finished their shift, they often have to be poured away putting toxic waste down-stream and regular deliveries of cleaning equipment have to be made. When cleaners have finished using Stabilised Aqueous Ozone, they can pour it away down the sink and because it is simply water it is 100% environmentally friendly.
Martin Booth, Sales Director at Green World Innovations, that distribute the Tersano lotus® PRO said: “We now work with a number of care homes as well as hospitals, prisons and schools. Once we demonstrate the product and deliver the results of swab testing they are usually very keen to make the switch from chemicals to Stabilised Aqueous Ozone. It’s an easy decision to make as it saves FMs time, money and the environment, it really is a win/win.”
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