Disinfectants-Infection Control

The need for cleaning, prevention and control of infection has never been greater. With increasingly virulent strains of antibiotic resistant infections, hospital and health care acquired infections and the threat of a global influenza pandemic, there is a heightened awareness of health and hygiene risks and responsibilities.

We are committed to providing information and proven products to help you’re responsibilities relating to infection control. Infection control is a discipline of preventing the spread of infection. Infections can spread from patient to patient, staff to patient or staff to staff contact.

Prevention of cross infection includes good hand hygiene, cleaning, disinfecting, vaccination, surveillance, monitoring/investigation. Hospital and healthcare environments become contaminated with dust, general debris and organic matter with potentially pathogenic micro-organisms.

A safe environment is achieved by removing or destroying this contamination and thereby preventing micro-organisms or other contaminants reaching a susceptible site in sufficient quantities to initiate infection or any other harmful response in patients.

This is termed decontamination and involves cleaning and disinfection.

Cleaning: this is a process that physically removes contamination but not necessarily pathogenic microorganisms. Disinfection: a process used to reduce the number of viable pathogenic micro-organisms

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