The Topic of Hygiene is a perennial favorite in laundromats – not only with regard to the Laundry to be washed. Especially in Long-term care facilities and in the healthcare sector, where textiles from a wide variety of fields meet up at the laundromat, is hygiene safety extremely important. Well-designed concepts and equipment ensure that employees are protected from germs and laundry that meets the highest hygiene standards corresponds to.
For in-house laundry facilities in hospitals, as well as senior living and nursing homes—where soiled linens from a wide variety of living and work areas are cleaned every day—partitioned washing machines offer a reliable solution. Thanks to the partition, soiled laundry can be loaded on the soiled side and clean laundry can be unloaded on the clean side. These machines offer top-notch hygienic washing performance for items such as residents’ clothing, bed linens, incontinence pads, towels, washcloths, and other garments. Our DIVIMAT partitioned washing machine features large doors that swing open 180 degrees to the side, enabling convenient and quick loading and unloading. The partition reliably prevents contamination of the clean laundry on the clean side, ensuring that the highest hygiene standards are maintained.
Disinfection of Work Tools
Another important aspect of hygiene and safety is the equipment used, such as sorting tables and transport containers. All surfaces that come into contact with soiled laundry may be contaminated with germs and must therefore be disinfected before they come into contact with clean laundry. Laundry carts and mesh containers can be cleaned in no time at all using disinfection chambers. To do this, the containers are pushed into the chamber, where they are quickly made germ-free again by spraying them with disinfectant and water or steam.
Employee Safety
In the healthcare sector in particular, staff face an increased risk of infection from soiled linens. In addition to partitioned washing machines and the disinfection of transport containers, proper hand hygiene is crucial for everyone in the laundry facility to protect themselves from infections. This includes regular handwashing as well as proper hand sanitization. Professional hand sanitizing dispensers that can be operated contact-free are ideal for this purpose.
The STAHL team is always ready to provide you with advice and assistance if you’d like guidance on equipping your laundry facility. We also find solutions for special structural requirements: For example, our DIVIMAT partition-type washing machine is also available in a corner-loading model.
Thanks to its side-hinged doors, the STAHL disinfection chamber has very short setup times and is easy to operate. This allows laundry carts and containers to be cleaned quickly and easily.