WATER HYGIENE & SAFETY
Making users feel safe in the healthcare environment
As hospitals restart routine treatments, and GP practices encourage everyone to make contact with their doctor if they are worried about any ailments (at the time of writing), how can healthcare environments reassure visitors that they have taken every precaution to effectively maintain the hygiene of their buildings for all visitors, but in particular those who are prone to getting sick or risk the worsening of their initial condition? Paul Musgrove, UK Development manager at shower and washroom solution specialist, Conti+ UK, explains how the company is playing its part with a new range of ‘disinfection solutions’.
Maintaining high standards of hygiene has clearly always been a top priority for healthcare professionals, whether working in hospitals, GPs’ surgeries, dentists, or other specialised clinical environments, but as the coronavirus pandemic continues to impact the whole of the UK, healthcare estates teams are continuing to look for ways not only to keep the buildings they are responsible for clean and – as far as is possible – infection-free, but also to make their estates and facilities activities more effective and efficient. How, for instance, can they streamline maintenance to help accommodate increasing demands on their time? We’ve already talked (from a Conti+ standpoint) in past articles in HEJ about the opportunity to automate water management using our CNX system, and about the use of sensor control taps – with their touch-free activation – as the ultimate in hygiene, but, what else is possible?
All industries, but especially the healthcare sector, have seen a rapid period of change, and arguably the COVID-19 outbreak has driven widespread innovation and creativity, with existing procedures, ways of working, and behaviours, in many cases radically adapted to cope with new and different challenges. While there is no questioning the severity of the oft-mentioned ‘unprecedented times’, it could also be said that this in an opportunity in many areas – and not just healthcare – for things to be changed for the better – better for the health and wellbeing of people and, critically, also better for the environment. Many people, are hoping, and willing, there to be a change for the good.
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Conti+ says the introduction of Conti+ oXan provides users with a complete system for eliminating bacteria, viruses, and pathogens from their water systems and pipework and air-conditioning systems, as well as a ‘solution’ for complete room and surface disinfection, and hand sanitisation.
New disinfection solutions The team at Conti+ is used to talking about hygiene; it’s a core part of the business, with products supplied to healthcare facilities across the globe. While we at Conti+ often discuss the major hygiene benefits of sensor- controlled shower and washroom products with touch-free operation, and the other features of such systems designed to keep waterborne infections such as Legionella at bay, we felt it was time to complete our hygiene offering with the introduction of a series of disinfection solutions.
The arrival of coronavirus, unheard of a mere six months ago, expedited the new product development process, as the
The arrival of coronavirus, unheard of a mere six months ago, expedited the new product development process, as the Conti+ team stepped up production from its site just north of Frankfurt in Germany
46 Health Estate Journal June 2020
Conti+ team stepped up production from its site just north of Frankfurt in Germany. There are, of course, many disinfectant products already available, nearly all alcohol-based; some hypochlorite, some peroxide, but how can the management of the disinfection be simplified, via an effective, yet non-toxic and pH-neutral solution, that is also kind to the environment? Equally, on the basis that – to protect the environment globally and conserve natural resources – many of us believe we must make changes, both personally and professionally, in the way we behave and consume, how can the same thinking be applied to disinfection systems, which are usually supplied with an inordinate amount of instructions and health warnings?
Simple yet effective
The launch of the Conti+ oXan range brings with it a new way of thinking about disinfection solutions – a simple way for estates managers to keep their entire facility hygienically clean, all based around
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