Floorcare for the healthcare sector
October 1st 2004 Today’s hospital and healthcare environment is an increasing challenge for the supplier of cleaning machines.With the universal 24 hour operation of hospitals and healthcare establishments 7 days a week, creates not only opportunities, but also tremendous challenges for manufacturers of cleaning machines especially in to current events of mrsa superbug outbreak.
The most immediate of these is the cleaning of varied floor types, commonplace in most hospitals and care centres. Surfaces to be cleaned range from the hard floor areas of admissions, corridors, goods inwards and goods outwards to entrance doormats and non slip surfaces as well as the carpeted areas and staff facilities that are found in any workplace today. The necessity for daytime cleaning also provides the supplier with extra responsibility in supplying an aesthetically pleasing, low noise product combined with a high performance and sterile cleaning ability.
To this end, an increasing number of healthcare establishments are looking for a single source supplier with the capability of providing every item of cleaning equipment to match the ever increasing demands for their own environment.
Floorcare specialists and cleaning machine manufacturer Kärcher are recognised as one such supplier and over recent years have concentrated on the development of their specialist scrubber drier and vacuum sweeping machines.
Manufacturers however, are increasing the speed of cleaning in conjunction with cleaning efficiency and while walk behind scrubber driers might have been the norm in recent history, there is a trend towards smaller ride on scrubber driers and sweepers that provide that extra speed of cleaning for price conscious markets.This combined with the technical advance for flooring to meet today’s hygiene and safety standards requires cleaning machines to meet challenges imposed by dimpled flooring and the smooth flat floor for which the disc machine was designed.
One Kärcher maintenance machine highly beneficial to the healthcare sector is the BR/BD TRIKE ride on scrubber drier, designed to provide a low price solution through high productivity and efficient cleaning. Compact and stylish, this ride-on unit enters the market at a price normally associated with walk behind units,making it a more productive unit and also a wise investment in terms of cost.
As well as the latest machines that bring with them exciting new cleaning concepts and solutions, there is an ever increasing demand for cost efficient cleaning machines. One such model is the low cost, high performance BR 400 scrubber drier, with its additional capability of ultra high speed polishing and floor stripping.This compact machine is a firm favourite with the healthcare industry due to it cleaning right up to walls and edges, and high brush rotation speed of 1500rpm.
With its ability to clean and dry various surfaces and its capability to be used in a ‘handle-flat’position, the BR 400 scrubber drier is particularly well suited for areas with an 18” height restriction, a criteria demanded of most hospital wards and catering facilities.
The main advantage of the BR 400 scrubber drier is economy.The high-powered turbine motor ensures efficient water recovery through twin suction nozzles. Floor surfaces are cleaned and dried in a single pass eliminating safety risk due to wet and slippery floors, yet with only one operator and one machine, man hours and resources are kept to an absolute minimum.
In support of its product ranges Kärcher acknowledge improved operator efficiency comes from better training and have concentrated on this issue by increasing training resources both internally and externally. If you are interested in these products call on the new marketing hotline number 01295 752 163 quoting reference E9FCDS.
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