Asepsis is as important as cleaning in care home maintenance

- Gordon McVean of Truvox International offers advice

There are some nasty infections around nowadays, and cleaning in a care home has to take account of them and seek to protect staff and residents from infection.  Review your choice of cleaning chemicals and ensure that the chemicals you use have the maximum anti-bacterial effectiveness that you can get for your budget.

Look also at the machines you use.  Make sure that your vacuum cleaners have HEPA filtration to trap unwanted spores and organisms.  Check that whatever machine your cleaners use to scrub hard floors in bathrooms, lavatories and kitchens scrubs deeply between the joints between tiles to extract bacteria-carrying soil.

For example, the Truvox Multiwash washes, mops, scrubs and dries on both hard and soft floor coverings in a single pass and leaves floors ready to walk on in minutes.  The Multiwash is good at ‘difficult’ floors like non-slip safety floors, low pile carpets and entrance matting.  It offers a care home cleaner the ability to achieve greater speed, improved cleaning efficiency and dryer floors immediately after cleaning to reduce the risk of accidents.

Take a look at www.truvox.com or email truvox@truvox.com.  And watch out for new technological developments.