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been running a 24-hour service and it’s all gone well.” With an engineering perspective, Owen Margetts, the Trust’s senior estates officer - systems and authorised person - decontamination (APD), said: “I was involved from the conception, when we were looking at where we were going, and how we were going to move forward. Trying to find a temporary decontamination facility was like looking for unicorns. “The initial validation process of the machines by Audere Medical Services was very thorough. The RO units and the washer- disinfectors have performed as I would have expected of quality machines. SSD were very helpful, very responsive to the few minor issues we had. I fully support Garth’s approach to continual monitoring to avoid any major faults.
“I think the project has gone very, very well. If all schemes ran as smoothly as this one, we wouldn’t have any issues. That’s full credit to Garth and his team.” After the commissioning, SSD contracted engineer Sean Tovey, of Can West Services, to be responsible for the ongoing service and maintenance of the washer-disinfectors. Sean explained: “I try to be proactive, rather than reactive, to see if the machines are within calibration or drifting. If something is not looking right, it is replaced before it becomes an issue. “Testing is dictated by documentation, so that’s every three months for the quarterly, and then annually. I’m also contracted to fully assess the machines to ensure their integrity and reliability above and beyond the requirements of the documentation. The lack of issues shows that this is worthwhile.
The temporary sterile services facility is equipped with three DEKO D32 Excel washer-disinfector-dryers
There were only a couple of minor issues when the temporary unit went live, which is what you might expect.” Sean added: “The performance of a machine is only as good as your last engineer. If you send in a good engineer, problems tend to disappear.”
Deep cleaning
Once commissioning was completed the facility was ready for a deep clean. When the chosen, relatively nearby contractor was unable to deliver the service, SSD’s Garth
Rowbottom put in an emergency call to Mel Robson of SteriSystems. “Mel got me out of a tight spot,” said Garth. “With a colleague, Mel drove down from Scotland overnight, deep cleaned the facility and went back north the following day. He did a sterling job.” The deep clean used the SteriAir mobile whole room decontamination unit, which is designed to provide medical professionals with a highly effective and adaptable means of infection prevention and control, using low dose hydrogen peroxide. The technology allows the disinfectant to be in contact, by displacement, with surfaces to be treated, including those which appear to be inaccessible. SteriAir is a dry solution, so all electronic equipment remains safe. SteriAir is certified to the NF T72-281 (2014). As part of the decontamination cycle SteriSystems used its own high-level disinfectant that meets the latest EN Standards on contact times. Garth said: “I’m qualified to operate a
particle tester, and to undertake the drop plate and touch plate tests. Anderson Caledonia analysed the results and confirmed the clean room had achieved the required standard. The results were passed to the Trust’s APD, Mark Walters, who approved it being a Class 8 clean room. In fact, the standard achieved for the production room of the temporary facility was better than the existing packing area of the hospital.” He added: “Initially, there were some water quality issues which required further testing. These were undertaken out of hours by 20/30 Labs. “This was typical of suppliers throughout the programme. They constantly ‘pulled out all the stops’ to help the hospital achieve its tight timeframe.”
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Describing his approach to meeting the Trust’s requirements, Garth said: “It was
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