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OPTIONS FOR HEALTHCARE CLEANING
Healthcare cleaning teams face multiple challenges to provide the highest levels of hygiene to protect patients, staff and visitors while improving operational efficiency and controlling costs. The choice of products, and how they are used, plays a significant role in meeting these objectives explains Diversey.
Patients expect hospitals and other settings to be a safe environment during their stay. Cleaning plays a major role because it can maintain and enhance the appearance of a facility while protecting against the pathogens that can lead to illness. Although all areas are important, there are three that have the biggest impact on patients’ perceptions and their well-being: facility appearance, hand hygiene and surface disinfection.
Facility appearance A clean and pleasant environment protects patients and provides the added reassurance that hygiene is taken seriously. It 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 surfaces when used dry or with
water alone. Until recently these benefits were generally only cost-effective when using reusable systems such as Diversey’s TASKI Jonmaster but recent innovations have allowed affordable disposable alternatives, including Diversey’s TASKISUM, providing cleaning teams with more choice to deploy effective solutions.
The most efficient use of microfibre arises when it is part of an integrated cleaning system that incorporates new ways of working as well as complementary equipment. The modular TASKI Trolley system, for example, allows cleaning teams to devise configurations with exactly the right layout and number of boxes and containers for efficient microfibre cleaning. Every tool is ideally positioned for easy, ergonomic access to reduce handling movements and the time taken to complete different tasks.
Although microfibre is often used for floorcare, many cleaning teams also employ scrubber driers or rotary disc machines. These too can operate without chemicals when used with pads from the Twister by Diversey or TASKI Americo ranges manufactured from 100% recycled PET plastics.
Twister by Diversey is an innovative set of floor care pads impregnated with billions of microscopic diamonds. These can be used with water alone, last three times longer than traditional products, and significantly reduce the need for periodic maintenance, all of which improves sustainability and reduces overall costs. They are also less abrasive than corresponding conventional alternatives which helps to protect the floor while giving a smoother and improved appearance to the floor which is also more resistant to soiling.
Hand hygiene Another aspect of cleaning that protects and reassures patients and visitors is hand hygiene. The majority of infections are spread by hand-to-hand contact or by touching contaminated surfaces so breaking this chain should be a priority. But products need to be effective, simple to use and readily available.
Diversey’s new IntelliCare hand care system – listed in the NHS Supply Chain - helps facilities control critical hand care moments for improved infection prevention and hand hygiene compliance. The IntelliCare hybrid dispenser is designed to maximise the availability of hand hygiene products and can be used with a variety of globally-trusted
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