With soiled laundry in healthcare facilities potentially a source of infection spread, and, the company claims, ‘many nosocomial infections traceable back to poor hygiene standards in the processing of contaminated laundry’, Miele Professional’s PW 6163, PW 6243, and PW 6323 barrier machines reportedly ‘provide the ideal solution’ for processing soiled and potentially infected laundry.
The company said: “These highthroughput barrier machines with 160320 litre drum capacities offer care and retirement homes and hospitals optimum physical separation between the unclean and clean sides, and are also suitable for other situations where hygienic processing of laundry is paramount.
Aside from the ability to separate clean and dirty sides of the laundry, Miele Professional says barrier washers ‘contribute to laundry room hygiene in several ways’. It added: “Safe thermal disinfection depends on meeting precise temperature and holding time criteria. With chemo-thermal disinfection, laundry should be processed at between 30 and 70°C using temperature holding times of 10-20 minutes, and the addition of chemical disinfection agents.”
The Profitronic M controls on the Miele washer-extractors control temperature and holding times precisely to comply with the required standards. Miele Professional barrier washers have special hygiene programme packages – thermal disinfection, chemo-thermal disinfection, and incontinence / soiled laundry, and are available in 16 kg, 24 kg, and 32 kg load capacities.
