TORK VR CLEAN HANDS TRAINING AND EDUCATION by Essity


Tork manufacturer Essity has come up with a novel and interactive way of providing hand hygiene training for care workers. Tork VR Clean Hands Training and Education uses virtual reality to provide staff with realistic scenarios where hand hygiene should be carried out.


Trainees put on a VR headset and begin a new shift at their virtual workplace where they are given responsibility for several patients or residents. They then face a series of realistic situations in the virtual world where they are expected to practice hand hygiene - using their own hands.


If they fail to wash their hands at the right moment, they are given the chance to try again. As a result, they soon learn to adopt excellent hand hygiene standards, both in the virtual and real world.


The results of each trainee are then assessed on how far they comply with the World Health Organisation’s (WHO’s) “5 Moments for Hand Hygiene”.


The tool was developed in collaboration with behavioural scientists, university hospitals and global hand hygiene experts. Essity believes itself to be one of the first companies ever to use VR in a hand hygiene training simulation.


Tork VR Clean Hands Training and Education is free to download via the App Store and Google Play and participants need a compatible smartphone and VR headset with remote control or equivalent.


The Tork VR Clean Hands Training app won a 2020 Interclean Innovation Award for being “user-friendly, accessible and capable of stimulating behavioural change in a fun and engaging way”.


www.tork.co.uk/TorkVR


WASH SERIES by SEKO


SEKO’s Wash Series is designed with large commercial on-premise laundry customers in mind, offering a range of multi-machine dosing systems that bring the world of IoT- enabled remote data management and parameter control to the laundry manager.


The Wash Series is an intelligent centralised chemical dosing


system capable of dosing detergent and fabric softener for up to 10 washer extractors in multiple premises, with a modular design meaning the system can be easily expanded to accommodate additional machines.


By connecting to SekoWeb, the revolutionary online portal that allows customers to manage all their dosing equipment wherever they are in the world, Wash Series users benefit from “data on demand” via PC, laptop, smartphone or tablet. As well as the power to monitor chemical and equipment performance, users can adjust programmes and parameters for immediate efficiency improvements and reduced maintenance costs.


With access to real-time data, such as chemical consumption, formulations and wash loads on demand, users can adjust programmes to reduce detergent usage, while a low-level alarm feature means faults can be identified and actioned quickly in order to prevent or minimise downtime.


Combining the Wash Series and SekoWeb means commercial laundry managers can take control of their overall operation, helping to reduce over-consumption of chemical, water and energy within the overall wash process through proper programme management.


www.seko.com/uk/series/wash-series


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