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Potential litigation in failure to deliver ‘adequate’ cross-contamination cleaning hygiene standards
- August 15, 2011
- By alan
- Healthcare
Building service contractors (BSCs) engaged in delivering services to healthcare sites face potential litigation if they fail to deliver adequate cross-contamination cleaning hygiene standards, warns industry RTO Lennox Institute. This important issue will be addressed at the AUSCLEAN Convention 2011, 27 and 28 September. One of Australia’s leading healthcare acquired infection experts, Judy Forrest, will be conducting a Lennox Institute [...]

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Canadian union campaigns for housekeeping $$$ to fight HAIs
- June 30, 2011
- By alan
- Healthcare
According to a Canadian newspaper article published last week, some 12,000 Canadians die every year from a hospital-acquired infection and a union is demanding a province give hospitals more money for better housekeeping and more private rooms to stop the spread of superbugs. Peterborough Examiner staff writer Elizabeth Bower reported that Sharon Richer, northern Ontario vice-president of Ontario Council of [...]

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World MRSA Day to fight against denial and inaction
- June 24, 2011
- By alan
- Healthcare
The MRSA pandemic continues to be a major public health threat and crisis along with other antimicrobial-resistant pathogens and must become a top political priority worldwide. This year marks 50 years since MRSA emerged into the world. World MRSA Day, 2 October, and World MRSA Awareness Month are opportunities for people worldwide to unite in the fight against MRSA, healthcare-acquired [...]

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Harmful fungal pathogens find home in dishwashers
- June 24, 2011
- By alan
- Healthcare
Evolutionary pathogens could have serious implications for the cleaning industry. A new study published in the British journal Fungal Biology reports that potentially pathogenic fungi including a type of ‘black yeast’ are now able to live in extreme conditions such as in dishwashers.* According to researchers, these same pathogens may also be found in other home appliances such as washing [...]

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Macquarie University Hospital a fine teacher
- May 6, 2011
- By alan
- Healthcare
Macquarie University Hospital’s zero-tolerance approach to infection control is supported by rigorous housekeeper training and a serious investment in the appropriate equipment and tools. Following a visit to this Sydney healthcare site, INCLEAN editor Alan Hardcastle asks the obvious question, ‘is this Australia’s cleanest and most hygienic hospital?’ Opened mid-2010 and owned by Macquarie University, Macquarie University Hospital is a [...]

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May/June INCLEAN magazine’s comprehensive healthcare hygiene content
- May 4, 2011
- By alan
- Healthcare
The May/June INCLEAN magazine has been printed and will be mailed this week. A bumper 104-page issue, it contains the annual Healthcare focus as well as coverage of NUCCRA’s Cleanlink conference and a number of industrial relations’ features. Content includes: *United Voice’s campaign in shopping centres *Cleaning Council WA’s official launch *Unanimous support for NSW Portable Long Service Leave *Central [...]

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Patient screening mooted in fight against superbug NDM-1
- April 25, 2011
- By alan
- Healthcare
Australian hospitals should start screening patients for a deadly new superbug NDM-1 (New Delhi metallo) that could lead the world into a post-antibiotic era, according to 25 April media reports including that posted on www.watoday.com.au. In fact, if screening does take place it would only bring Australia into line with a number of countries - such as The Netherlands – that [...]

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WFBSC initiative to ensure healthcare industry is focused on cleanliness
- April 2, 2011
- By alan
- Healthcare
Having resolved, at its biennial Congress held last February in Auckland, the World Federation of Building Service Contractors (WFBSC) has developed a scoping document ‘Cleaning for Health’. Among this initiative’s key objectives is ‘to ensure that the global healthcare industry remains focused on the importance of cleanliness in the fight against healthcare associated infections’. “The Secretariat of the WFBSC was [...]

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Enhanced ICU cleaning reduces MRSA risk
- April 1, 2011
- By alan
- Healthcare
Enhanced cleaning of hospital intensive care units reduces the risk of methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infection for patients placed in a room previously occupied by someone with MRSA, a new study finds. This was reported in the US’s 29 March edition of HealthDay News. Researchers compared MRSA rates among patients admitted to 10 ICUs at a 750-bed academic medical centre [...]

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Cleaning as the ‘life saver’ replete with opportunities
- February 24, 2011
- By alan
- Contracting, Healthcare
The vital role cleaning plays in maintaining public hygiene was highlighted at the World Federation of Building Service Contractors 2011 Congress. A number of leading BSC executives explained how our industry can capitalise by ensuring it’s on the front line in combating pandemics and hospital acquired infections. The WFBSC 2011 Congress, which was held in Auckland early February, included a [...]

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