Why Touch-Free Sanitiser Stations Are Critical In Hospitals
Germs, bacteria and pathogens are prevalent in every environment. Regardless of the finesse of commercial cleaning, harmful organisms will exist on a premises. For this reason, even the highest cleaning standards alone cannot guarantee that people will not contract infections in commercial settings, primarily due to transmission methods like person-to-person contact.
Germs, bacteria and pathogens are prevalent in every environment. Regardless of the finesse of commercial cleaning, harmful organisms will exist on a premises. For this reason, even the highest cleaning standards alone cannot guarantee that people will not contract infections in commercial settings, primarily due to transmission methods like person-to-person contact.
Hospitals and other care facilities, such as aged care centres, may often need to work with bed-bound patients, particularly seniors. While a hospital bed allows them to rest easily, too much time in the bed can produce excessive bacteria, which can be a leading cause of declining health.
Though a lot of equipment in hospital facilities is disposable, there are plenty of pieces of equipment which can be reused for years and even decades. Beds, wheelchairs, bathroom equipment, walkers and IV equipment are some of the reusable resources in hospital settings.
In sectors like healthcare, hospitality and education — where cleanliness directly impacts safety and operations — deep cleaning is vital. Our guide delivers practical cleaning tips and a structured checklist for effective deep cleaning across these essential industries.
A clean floor is essential to comfortable and safe healthcare, education and hospitality spaces. But, is the floor truly getting clean? If your cleaning team hasn’t washed their trusty mop lately, it might be doing more harm than good.
Preventing HAIs through good infection control is one of the number one ways to keep the community safe. Our following blog shows how hospitals can effectively improve their infection control protocols.
It can be challenging to accurately gauge the efficiency of your facility’s current cleaning practices. While sanitisation standards and best practices are useful for measuring how well your business is being cleaned, gauging productivity can be harder to evaluate.
Are you aware of the role that colonisation can play in spreading disease? Although colonisation is, in most cases, a benign condition for the host, there is still considerable potential for pathogens to be spread through the colonisation process. Here we take an in-depth look at the impact of colonisation, as well as how the right type of cleaning can limit its impact.
Maintaining a clean environment is a top priority for hospital and healthcare settings. From sanitising surfaces to disinfecting patient rooms, powerful cleaning products are commonly used multiple times a day throughout a facility.
The pandemic has brought the entire world to a state of uncertainty, but COVID-19 isn’t the only infectious disease that healthcare professionals, vulnerable individuals and the rest of the general public should be aware of.
