With Brexit ‘the inescapable elephant in the room’, Carole Armstrong, Marketing manager at water control and sanitaryware specialist, Delabie UK, looks at how UK best practice in the field has gained traction in the French healthcare sector.
Examining the impact of new French guidance on tap and shower design, she considers how these guidelines have challenged current thinking about the role of copper tails, flow straighteners, and thermostatic mixing valves, in managing bacterial proliferation across the Channel. Will best practice in healthcare break down borders and provide practical solutions where political will cannot?
System design plays a significant role in controlling Legionella in the healthcare sector. In the UK, Health and Safety Executive guidance HSG 274 Part 21 is very clear on how this should be achieved, resulting in good practice becoming established and replicated nationwide. In 2017, the Scientific and Technical Centre for Building (CSTB - the French public body responsible for improving building quality and safety) issued its own guidelines for implementing French medical standards within the healthcare sector. The CSTB guidelines provide very specific requirements for the design of tapware used in medical environments, as well as the materials to be used, and the taps’ technical performance
Simplifying design
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