HEALTHCARE ESTATES
Dupal’s showerheads ‘now the industry favourite’
The requirements for compliance with the relevant HTMs and the HSE’s L8 ACoP as regards the descaling of showers has seen Estates departments battling to keep up over the past few years, maintains Dupal. The company said: “The impossible task of making it to every asset to remove, descale, clean, and refit the shower every quarter is one that has seen teams win or lose. More often the latter. Dupal’s colour- coded shower solution has now been available for nine years, and it has become the ‘go to’ product to address the issue. We created a showerhead made with less plastic to reduce the amount being used and recycled. Produced solely from antimicrobial plastic, it has been designed by us without all the washers and screws,
Non-profit body for closed system operators
The CSCA (Closed System Control Association) is a non-profit membership organisation for companies involved in closed systems. There are three types of membership,
to minimise the chances of contaminated surfaces inside the head. “All the Estates team needs to do is
swap the units, which takes seconds instead of hours, while every showerhead is sold with recycling included.” All materials are correctly sorted and
sent to the correct recycling streams, with nothing ending up in landfill.
Raising water industry standards
The Water Management Society is a not-for-profit membership organisation that has been providing practical and technical training and information to water management professionals for almost 50 years.
WMSoc is run by a Council of volunteers ‘with a huge amount of experience’ in water hygiene and water management. The Water Management Society primarily exists to help raise industry standards, while supporting
members who can take advantage of discounted training courses, events, conferences, webinars, and free publications and journals, giving them up-to-date information and guidance. Training courses (with a practical training area) for non-members and members include Pseudomonas Aeruginosa Risk Assessment in Healthcare environments; Legionella risk assessment of evaporative cooling systems and hot & cold water systems; Temperature monitoring, sampling and inspection of hot and cold water systems; Water chemistry; Legionella control and management for duty- holders and responsible persons, and Steam boiler water chemistry. Further information on how to join the Water Management Society and training and event booking details can be found at the WmSoc website.
The ‘next generation’ of assurance tools
Over the last 12 months Quiqsolutions and IHEEM’s Technical Platforms have been working to develop ‘the next generation of assurance tools’, including standardised AE audit and pre-audit templates across the various key
technical areas, such as Ventilation, Water, Decontamination, Electrical, and Medical Gases.
Quiqsolutions said: “Underwritten by IHEEM, including an ongoing review and approval process, there is peace of mind for NHS Trusts that the content is current and in line with best practice guidance. In addition the Quiqcare self-assessment tool is available, enabling Trusts to evidence compliance at a deeper
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level than the Premises Assurance Model, and to run reports on real-time position and trend analysis over time. Join us on our stand to hear more about the IHEEM Governance Software, and discuss your requirements for a compliance platform. Alternatively, come along to the main stage at 11.00 am on Tuesday 8 October to hear Paul Kaye, Director at Quiqsolutions, and Liam Casey, Associate Director of Estates, Facilities and Capital Development at Sheffield Health & Social Care NHS Foundation Trust, describe using digital compliance systems.”
the first being Registered service- provider members, who are companies agreeing to work to the standards in pre-commission and remedial cleaning and maintenance water treatment published by the CSCA, and whose processes are audited by it. The service-provider standards are based on BSRIA BG29 & BG50, and British Standard BS8552. The other two membership types
are CSCA Sponsor and Foundation members – supporting companies involved in the industry, but not providing services directly to end- users, and not audited. CSCA is run by a voluntary management committee, and there is a technical committee too. Technical document topics include six- port valves and sludge formation. On 6 and 14 November 2024, the CSCA is running a one-day event in Manchester and in London. CSCA members, non-members, and trade exhibitors, are welcome to book places online. Presentation topics include thin-walled carbon steel pipework, closed system auditing, training, film forming amines, closed circuit inhibitors, and the science of corrosion. More information about membership and event bookings is on the CSCA website.
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