Best foot forward

CK Consumables acknowledges that mats that capture dirt and debris at entrance doors can help prevent their spread around the hospital by visitors’ shoes, but points out that microscopic bacteria are not visible to the naked eye; thus nobody can be sure their feet are entirely clean and contamination-free after using them.

Using the Klean Feat dispenser is simply a matter of placing each foot into the dispenser box and, “within the time it takes to firmly place a foot down and lift it up again”, each shoe will be encircled by an overshoe in a hands-free operation. A British invention with worldwide patents filed, the dispensers have already been used by City & Kent personnel involved in the recent Department of Health-mandated English hospital “deep clean” as “an integral part of every operator’s personal equipment”.