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FEATURE A Plan of Attack


As COVID-19 continues to lay a path of destruction throughout our care home system, it’s time for owners and industry leaders to step up and invest in validated technologies and comprehensive staff training, says Osprey Deepclean.


Care homes were thrust into this pandemic while residents and staff were forced to shield and isolate to protect themselves and their families.


Untrained workers have been asked to deliver clinical levels of environmental hygiene without the right education, tools or precise government guidance on how to effectively clean and disinfect care homes.


It’s now time for owners to step up and protect the workforce who’ve jumped into the firing line. Employees, residents and their families suffered enough through the disastrous handling of the early stages of the virus.


Investment into the best validated technologies and appropriate training to bridge the skills gap is the minimum we should expect from care home owners.


THE BURDEN OF RESPONSIBLY IS SHIFTING


Tesco’s decision to move cleaning responsibilities in-house represents a growing trend where businesses and institutions are demanding their untrained staff to provide expert cleaning services, rather than outside contractors.


Care homes house the most vulnerable of our population, so limiting foot traffic in and out of the building mitigates the risks of transmission. Asking employees to shoulder the cleaning regime burden is a natural step. However, we need to bridge the skills gap before staff can confidently and correctly clean and disinfect surfaces and entire areas.


Choosing in the best validated technologies with comprehensive training is the only path forward for care homes.


There’s no excuse for failing to adjust to the new normal of gold standard cleaning regimes, especially considering the nature of care homes, their vulnerable residents and the revolving door shared with hospitals.


LACK OF BASIC KNOWLEDGE FORCES


COSTLY MISTAKES A quick Google search into care home cleaning gives you a troubling insight where the focus lies. Top results for care home cleaning show bleach, chlorine tablets, disinfectant wipes, detergent wipes, mops, and so on. While these products can play important roles in the overall process, our propensity to reach for the chemicals and spray before understanding the basics of good cleaning will force costly mistakes.


One study by the US Center for Disease Control and Prevention has shown that over two-thirds of soap buckets and 93% of sampled cleaning towels in US hospitals harboured bacteria.


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Statistics like this demonstrate how poor education, practices and tools can exacerbate the danger to residents in care homes, especially when healthcare facilities should represent the best environmental hygiene standards.


DRY STEAM VAPOUR


Osprey Deepclean has dedicated 20 years into engineering and testing the best validated technologies on the market. We’ve created our dry steam vapour range to tackle bacteria and viruses on three fronts with thermal and chemical disinfection and decontamination. Through the mechanical action of surface penetration and extraction, it eliminates all contaminants.


Our mix of super-heated dry steam and disinfectant destroys 99.99% of bacteria and viruses, including the enveloped SARS CoV-2.


Manual disinfection, especially by untrained employees, is susceptible to mistakes that can have deadly consequences in care homes. Our technology eliminates these issues and aids the provision of the safest possible environments for residents and staff.


HEPA FILTER VACUUMS


Osprey Deepclean’s HEPA filtration vacuum cleaners are one of the most effective validated technologies available. As an acronym for high-efficiency particulate air, true HEPA filters must be tested against a specific standard that ensures quality and reliability. It captures at least 99.97% of particles from the air, down to at least 0.03 microns.


NASA published a study that proved even better results, showing that HEPA filters can catch ultrafine particles down to 0.01 microns, which falls squarely into the range of the SARS- COV-2 particle size of 0.125, as well all other virus particulates. These statistics highlight HEPA standard filters extraordinary efficacy and their guaranteed effectiveness in care homes.


Standard everyday vacuum cleaners are designed to suck up visible dust and debris. They’re not designed to capture microscopic particles, invisible to the naked eye. Instead, these vacuums unsettle these particles, which might include infectious organisms thriving underneath biofilms, and blasts them back into the air through the motor exhaust filter.


HEPA filters are oſten reserved for industries that demand high air quality like aerospace, nuclear power and hospitals. But that shouldn’t be the case. Price point differences between standard and validated technologies are minimal and inconsequential when you consider the results. Affordable, easy to use technology is readily available on the market.


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