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.
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.
Environmental hygiene guidelines for Australian hospitals are rigorous, intended to help prevent infection and control the spread of microorganisms throughout the hospital environment. Strict cleaning protocols must be followed with an eye both to complete hygiene and sanitising protocols for minimising use of antimicrobial cleaning solutions that can increase the strength of multi-resistant organisms, which are the main source of secondary infection in hospital settings.
Mopping a hospital floor can put great strain on the upper body. We carried out a carefully controlled comparison study at the Royal Melbourne Hospital, to examine the movement risk for cleaning operatives when using different mopping techniques and products.
The cleaning staff responsible for taking care of hospitals and other healthcare settings play a major role in infection control. The amount of time and effort put into cleaning, sanitising and disinfecting patient rooms, public gathering areas and other spaces is critical to the wellness of those staying, visiting and working within the hospital.
Hygiene and cleanliness should always be top of mind regardless of your place of work or industry. Now, more than ever, employers are prioritising safe, clean workplaces with rigorous cleaning, disinfecting and sanitising protocols so they can open up to the public and get back to normal. Keeping surfaces clean, but also sanitised and disinfected, can help stop the spread of germs, COVID-19 and other viruses, but also improve the reputation of your organisation as a whole and help consumers and visitors feel more comfortable in your environment.
