ADVERTORIAL
Cleanliness Clearly Counts
Diversey, specialist in cleaning and hygiene technologies, explains the day-to-day challenges that cleaning operatives face when working in a care environment and advises on ways to make balancing such tasks easier.
Cleaning teams working in long-term care environments face the multiple challenges of providing the highest levels of service, creating an excellent environment and keeping residents safe, all while improving operational efficiency and controlling costs. The choice of products, and how they are used, plays a significant role in meeting these objectives. Diversey supports cleaning teams with a complete set of products that offer choice, value and performance.
Residents expect their long-term care facilities to be a safe home from home. Cleaning plays a major role because it can maintain and enhance the appearance of a facility while protecting
Clearly, cleanliness counts in the care home. Although all areas are important, there are three that have the biggest impact on resident and guests’ perceptions and their wellbeing: facility appearance, food safety and laundry hygiene.
against the pathogens that can lead to illness. Studies show around one in five people worry about the risk of infection when the facility smells unclean while more than two in five equate bad smells
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to lack of cleanliness. These perceptions start before residents move in: almost three quarters of people say cleanliness will affect their choice of facility and even more are concerned about the risk of infection.
FACILITY APPEARANCE Creating a clean and pleasant environment starts with everyday tasks such as cleaning floors and hard surfaces. Cleaning without chemicals is popular because it offers the prospect of simpler and safer processes that are more sustainable and less obtrusive to patients, visitors and staff, without compromising on results and outcomes.
Microfibre is firmly established as an excellent cleaning and infection- prevention tool. Cloths, pads and mops made from this material can remove dirt, dust and over 99% of bacteria from hard
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