strength, and the unit serves up to 1,650 visitors per cartridge to ensure that it will not run out when a handwash is urgently needed.
The Tork PeakServe Continuous Hand Towel is also quick and easy to use, because accessing a towel requires a particularly low pull-force. It takes just three seconds for each healthcare staff member to take a towel and move on, making the process both quick and efficient.
Healthcare workers need to wash their hands frequently to prevent passing on any infections between patients. However, frequent handwashing followed by drying can aggravate the skin and lead to conditions such as occupational dermatitis.
Areas of the hands that are cracked or raw are more susceptible to being colonised by viruses and bacteria than healthy skin, which means healthcare staff with sore hands potentially present an even greater cross-infection risk to their patients. Mild soaps such as Tork Sensitive Foam Soap and Tork Sensitive Liquid Soap will help to protect the frequently-washed hands of healthcare workers.
A soft, non-abrasive paper towel will also help to protect the hands. For intensive care units and other hygiene-critical wash stations where handwashing needs to be carried out frequently, a soft towel such as the Tork Xpress Extra Soft Multifold Hand Towel works well.
Health authorities often recommend the provision of fragrance-free conditioning creams to improve skin health after washing. Tork Sensitive Moisturising Hand Cream, for example, has been formulated to help prevent chapping and soreness.
It's not sufficient to simply supply the most suitable hand hygiene products for the task, however: staff should also receive clear instructions on how to use them for optimum effectiveness. Essity’s own Tork Clean Hands Training invites users into a digital world where they are confronted with a series of scenarios in which hand hygiene needs to
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be carried out. Developed in collaboration with behavioural scientists and hand hygiene experts, the course aims to provide hand hygiene guidance in an engaging way.
In cases where handwashing is impractical or inconvenient, staff should be encouraged to sanitise their hands using an alcohol gel or hand rub. Tork Alcohol Hand Sanitisers are available in a range of formats designed to be convenient for the medical worker.
While medical staff are delivering lifesaving care, cleaning teams will be working hard behind the scenes to ensure that all surfaces and equipment are kept sanitised and germ-free. However, like all other healthcare workers in Ireland’s hospitals, the cleaners themselves have been facing huge pressures during the pandemic due to illness and co-worker absences.
At Essity we offer a training package designed to help and support healthcare cleaners and allow them to carry out their work more efficiently. Tork Interactive Clean Hospital Training addresses each step of the process from picking up debris, emptying the bins and wiping down refuse containers before moving on to other tasks.
The course incorporates tips and tricks for safe healthcare cleaning and includes a ‘train-the-trainer’ module. This features a mini-microbiology element that deals with the dangers posed by microorganisms in healthcare. Tork Interactive Clean Hospital Training is available in more than 15 languages besides English, including French, Spanish, German, Arabic and Somali.
It will take more than well-trained cleaners, user-friendly hand hygiene products and well-stocked dispensers to ensure that Ireland’s healthcare system returns to a place where it can be considered to be ‘in control’. Since hygiene and cleanliness are both pre-requisites for good healthcare outcomes, these will provide the foundation stone for optimum care in healthcare institutions.
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