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A blog from industry experts devoted to public health awareness, best practices, and the role of environmental cleaning and disinfection, to promote safer, healthier public spaces.
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Last month, we featured interviews with Infection Control Professionals to gain real insight into how they protect against hospital-acquired infections. The hospital environment presents a unique challenge to Environmental Services (EVS) providers, as they carry out their tasks and follow protocols to keep all areas of the hospital safe for patients, staff and visitors. What’s involved in a typical day, and what particular benefits of ready-to-use wipes do EVS staff depend on to help them throughout their day? We spoke to EVS Manager Marta Ferreira to find out.
Q: What’s a day like for EVS staff in the hospital?
A: “A day in EVS at the hospital is busy! Halls and patient rooms need to be swept and mopped, and surfaces like counters, bedrails and nursing stations need disinfecting. There are garbage and linen bags that need to be emptied.”
Q: How do you protect your hospital to ensure that it is clean and safe for staff, patients and visitors when they stay and visit?
A: “EVS staff are specially trained in using different types of products to clean and disinfect surfaces, such as Fuzion spray, bleach germicidal wipes and hydrogen peroxide wipes, that make our job easier and keep patients, staff and visitors safe from germs.”
Q: Please share your experience with using ready-to-use wipes compared to a dilution-controlled system.
A: “In my experience, the dilution-controlled system (DCS) requires more supplies and multiple steps for the best result compared to the ready-to-use (RTU) wipes, which offer a convenient alternative by taking the guesswork out of mixing the right amount of product with the right amount of water. The RTU wipes are easy to use and always offer a consistent solution concentration.
I would recommend the wipes over DCS 100%. RTU wipes save us time, they are ready to use and always have the correct amount of product to kill and reduce the spread of germs throughout our hospital.”
For your facility, choose Clorox Healthcare®.
Clorox Healthcare® Hydrogen Peroxide Cleaner Disinfectant Wipes (DIN: 02406225)*
- Alcohol-free, bleach-free and non-corrosive
- Kills 50 bacteria and viruses in 1 minute or less, including 13 antibiotic-resistant ones*
- Kills Mycobacterium tuberculosis in 1 minute and C. auris in 3 minutes*
- Less residue, easy on surfaces, multi-surface cleaner disinfectant ideal for daily use in high turn-over areas on hard surfaces
- Available in clinical canister and EVS bucket wipe size formats
Clorox Healthcare® VersaSure™ Alcohol-Free Cleaner Disinfectant Wipes (DIN 02473151)*
- Bleach-free, alcohol-free quat formula
- Kills 50 pathogens in 2 minutes or less (bacteria, viruses and fungi)*
- Low odour, low residue, streak-free and can be used on pieces of portable and mobile healthcare facility equipment
- Available in clinical canister wipe size format
Clorox Healthcare® Bleach Germicidal Disinfectant Wipes (DIN: 02465671)*
- Health Canada registered to kill 66 pathogens
- Kills viruses in 1 minute and bacteria in 30 seconds*
- C. difficile sporicidal efficacy tested in the presence of 3-part organic soil load
- Available in clinical canister and EVS bucket wipe size formats
* When used as directed.
