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The quality of hospital cleaning services cleaning work embodies a cleaning service quality and professional! Then you know how to check eligibility clean thing? Here we will introduce the quality requirements of the standard hospital cleaning services cleaning work. 1, common areas clean of the quality requirements and standards (1) Ground kept clean, so that…

In recent years, the hospital cleaning outsourcing more and more, can be a lot of property, regardless of whether the cleaning company have been made to the hospital cleaning, wants to participate. Some cleaning companies but often due to lack of experience, lack of preparation and the project lost in vain. In addition to the…

In the everyday business of medicine,no instrument is more in focus than the human hand. According to the state of current knowledge,hands represent the greatest risk for the transmission of disease pathogens! The WHO (World Health Organization), VAH (Association for Applied Hygiene, registered association) and RKI (Robert Koch Institute) also consider the hands to be…

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration recently issued a proposed rule seeking additional evidence regarding the safety and effectiveness of certain active ingredients used in consumer hand sanitizing products. Hand hygiene is vitally important for preventing the spread of infection, and as consumers increasingly choose hand sanitizers as a convenient hand cleansing option, it is…

A study using undercover observers to check how often health-care workers wash their hands has offered powerful new evidence that Canadian hospitals’ much-vaunted hygiene rates are more illusion than reality. Medical students in the study who secretly monitored hand cleaning found that just half of nurses and doctors at a major Toronto hospital soap up…

Mike Sullivan writes his latest hand hygiene blog for the ECJ website. He discusses the use of bulk fill dispensers – where the soap is poured into an open reservoir at the top of the unit – and looks at the hygiene risks associated with them. Sometimes in life, we are able to see the…

The contribution that good hand hygiene practice can make to reducing healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) is well-known and widely acknowledged. Over recent years the focus has been on raising awareness and improving hand hygiene practices and improvement culture for healthcare workers, especially around the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) ‘Five Moments for Hand Hygiene’. We rightly expect…

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) has been a topic that has exercised the minds of healthcare professionals for a number of years now. According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), AMR is resistance of a microorganism to an antimicrobial medicine to which it was originally sensitive. It goes on to say: ‘Resistant organisms – they include bacteria,…

ike Sullivan, managing director of hand hygiene products Industries – Europe writes his latest hand hygiene blog for the ECJ website. He has worked closely with the UK National Health Service (NHS), the World Health Organisation (WHO), the Société Française d’Hygiène Hospitalière, the Infection Prevention Society, the Association for Prevention in Infection Control, and Private…

They say that there is safety in numbers – and you could not apply a more appropriate description to the delegates that attended IPS 2013 earlier this month. Infection Prevention 2013 is hosted by the Infection Prevention Society (IPS) and is the UK’s largest infection prevention and control event. Despite being based in the UK,…