Effective environmental monitoring of ambient spaces housing everything from a catering operation to wards is key for safe, appropriate conditions in hospitals and other healthcare facilities.
Effective environmental monitoring on healthcare estates goes much deeper than verifying that a refrigerator or deep-freeze is functioning correctly. Ambient spaces housing everything from a catering operation to wards should also be monitored for safe, appropriate conditions – not to mention laboratories and operating theatres, where other factors, such as air flow and humidity, also come into play. Marcus Stacey-Bradbury, UK Commercial manager at Hanwell Solutions, examines the environmental monitoring systems available to healthcare estates teams to ensure adherence to strict regulations, and the lowest possible risk to health.
Maintaining effective temperature controls for storing critical medical supplies on a ‘24/7’ basis can be a challenge for facilities managers and healthcare professionals, but failure to take appropriate action could be extremely costly. There is no hiding place from a visit by an inspector looking for a chink in procedures that could put the public at risk.
‘Heat is on’ from inspections
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