Upgrading hygiene systems is essential due to reputational and financial risks of non-compliance, increased labor costs, and extended hospital stays from secondary infections. Up to 70% of all healthcare-acquired infections are preventable (1), and upgrading hygiene systems can help minimize this occurrence.
Does Your Hygiene Supplier Meet Your Needs?
A good supplier will ensure implementation does not disrupt staff or affect hygiene standards. Look for suppliers that:
- Conduct regular usage counts and audits.
- Check estimated need against actual use.
- Measure compliance and foot traffic patterns.
- Ensure effective placement of hand hygiene materials.
- Offer hygiene education and product usage systems training to empower staff.
Making Compliance Easier
Data-driven thinking, advances in technology, outsourced services, and better product and packaging design can provide the solution. Tork Vision Cleaning harnesses the power of real-time data to identify when and where there are service needs in your facility. This data-driven system maximizes efficiency so that you can work smarter, while helping cleaning staff ensure dispensers are stocked up to 99% of the time.
The Right Products and Systems Improve Efficiencies
Having the right systems to supply paper hand towels, soap, and sanitizer dispensers ensures medical staff and clinicians don’t need to compromise their hand hygiene. It also means:
- Medical staff save time, reducing frustration from seeking alternative hand hygiene stations.
- The ready supply of paper towels, soap, and sanitizers provides confidence for doctors, nurses, and carers, minimizing the spread of HAIs
- Reduced conflict between staff and cleaners when runouts cause delays or compromise patient care.
- Less frustration for cleaners, maintenance managers, and administration personnel from unscheduled visits to top up supplies.
Innovative Product Design Drives Efficiencies
Advances in product design have led to hand towels and soap products that take up less storage room while still providing effective hygiene solutions. The Tork PeakServe high-capacity hand towel dispenser cuts refilling time in half, holds 2,100 towels, and serves up to 600 more people between refills than traditional dispensers. Compressed refills take up 50% less space, allowing more room for other critical supplies like PPE.
Tork total hygiene solution systems and practices make it easier for organisations to ensure compliant use, greater confidence for staff and greater safety for patients.
World Health Organization (WHO). Global Report on Infection Prevention and Control. World Health Organization, 2022.
