Infection control has always been a big issue, especially in healthcare facilities, and never more so than now!
These invisible-to-the-naked-eye life forms are very invasive and very easily passed from person to person. Hospital cubicle screens and other furnishing textiles are prime suspects in cross infection, due to being prone to frequent touching.
Our collection of healthcare-focused antimicrobial fabrics play an important part in ensuring the deposits of microorganisms are rapidly neutralised and therefore not transferred. The fabrics deliver protection by means of highly respected, mill-applied antimicrobial treatments.
AEGIS Microbe Shield® is the finish applied to our Canasta cubicle screens. It is a full spectrum liquid antimicrobial, forming a long-lasting antimicrobial polymer that penetrates and bonds to the microscopic pores of any hard or soft surface to form an optically transparent protective shield.
Fresche is the antimicrobial finish applied to our Bento, Circulon, Interchange, Stream, Trellis, Untangled, Waffle, Zed and Zoot cubicle screens, which are all Australian Made. This antimicrobial treatment functions by penetrating and terminally destroying the delicate cell membrane of bacterial and fungal organisms.
From Hippocrates to Hypocrisy
We often hear mention of the hypocrisy of Governments regarding the proposed ban on single use plastic bags and such things. I would draw your attention to what I’m sure you’ll see as hypocrisy on steroids.
Government hospitals in particular have mostly replaced textile privacy cubicle screens (which were the last bastion of comfort in what is a sterile, daunting environment) with wholly imported Chinese Polypropylene (non-woven plastic) single-use screens. In the process, shipping the entire industry of weaving, fabricating, and laundering the re-usable screens, offshore! The suggestion that cost is a determinant is flawed.
Say No To Single-Use Cubicle Screens
Single-use cubicle screens are wasteful, both financially and sustainably.
Further, Health Design Forum (a not-for-profit UK-based healthcare think-tank) declare the environment in which health services are delivered, has a significant and measurable effect often causing what is known as ‘white coat syndrome’ where the distress manifests as elevated blood pressure and pulse rate when patients enter stark threatening spaces in hospitals. Read more on that topic here.
Decorative, acoustically absorbing, friendly textile bed screens certainly reduce the stresses associated with visiting hospitals and clinics.
Let’s look after the wellbeing of our people.
Let’s look after the wellbeing of our industries.
A simple, immediate declaration for Governments to BUY AUSTRALIAN would surely be appropriate!
With thanks to Crown Furniture for chairs featuring our antimicrobial upholstery fabric and timber with their new polyurethane antimicrobial coating.
Photography by Jaye Chaffey Photography.
