Preparing for the Swine Flu
Pandemic
Friday 24th July 2009
How can Synergy Health help you prepare for the Swine Flu
Pandemic?
The Current Situation
On Thursday 11th June the World Health Organisation (WHO) raised
the flu pandemic alert level from phase 5 to phase 6, indicating
that we are now experiencing a full pandemic. The WHO uses a 6
phase approach with phases 1–3 correlating with preparing for a
pandemic and response planning activities, and phases 4–6 clearly
signaling the need for response and mitigation efforts.
Preparing for a Pandemic and Reducing the Risk
A key part of preparing for a pandemic is to understand exactly
what we are facing and what we can do to protect ourselves our
loved ones and any people that depend upon us; these could be
employees or people that we care for such as those who are sick,
elderly or infirm.
Proper preparation will ensure that all appropriate risks are
identified and processes, procedures and products are put in place
to minimize these risks. The key risk for swine flu is becoming
infected with the virus. Therefore many of the risk reduction
measures will be targeted at preventing infection and cross
infection.
It is evident when looking through the national and
international guidelines that are available for swine flu that
regular cleaning of the environment and close attention to hand
hygiene are likely to offer significant risk reductions for the
public and healthcare workers alike.
Synergy Health has a comprehensive product range that is
designed, manufactured and clinically proven to help reduce the
risk of infection.
Therefore if you want to provide the best possible protection
for people in your home, business, hospital, school or care home,
then AzoMaxActive™ is
the only disinfectant that is clinically proven to
outperform the current gold standard healthcare disinfectant
(hypochlorite at a concentration of 1000 ppm available chlorine,
commonly known as bleach).
How can Synergy Health help?
Whether you need to protect yourself, your family, your business
or your patients, Synergy can help by offering you solutions to
reduce the risk posed by swine flu.
To help you determine how Synergy can help, we have divided our
product offering into ‘environmental hygiene products’ and ‘hand
sanitation’. These categories fall broadly into line with current
government and World Health Organisation guidelines which all
recognise hand hygiene and environmental cleaning as fundamentals
of infection prevention strategies.
For further information go to:
http://www.who.int/csr/resources/publications/swineflu/swineinfinfcont/en/index.html
Environmental Hygiene (Cleaning) Products
The environment can pose a risk of infection, and therefore
maintaining a clean environment whether it is in a public area
(hospital, business, school, residential home) or a private home is
one way to help reduce the risk of infection.
Synergy Health is proud to be the manufacturer and supplier of
the AzoMaxActive™ product range. This is the
only environmental disinfectant product range in the
World that is clinically proven to
outperform the current internationally recommended gold standard
cleaning regime for the high risk healthcare environment
(hypochlorite). A cleaner environment contains fewer
micro-organisms which in turn means a reduced risk of infection for
you, your family, your staff or your patients.
AzoMaxActive™ starts to reduce the risk of
infection the moment you start using it.
The AzoMaxActive™ product range contains the
unique Byotrol™ technology which provides ongoing and long lasting
protection for environmental surfaces. Unlike all other
disinfectants (or normal cleaning products) that stop being
effective once they have dried AzoMaxActive™ keeps
working even after it has dried so your hard surfaces, such as door
handles etc, continue to be antimicrobial even between cleaning
processes.
AzoMaxActive™ is available in a range of
formats to suit your needs including sprays, wipes and concentrate
(to be diluted and used on any hard surface including floors).
Hand Sanitation
Synergy Health manufacturers and supplies Assure™ hand mousse which is
specifically designed to help reduce the risk of cross infection
via the hands. The Assure™ hand mousse is based on
Byotrol™ technology, the same active biocides which are present in
our leading AzoMaxActive™ product range that is
clinically proven in the high risk healthcare setting.
Whilst regular hand washing is recommended to help prevent the
spread of swine flu it is not always practical or possible for you,
your family, your staff or your patients to access appropriate hand
washing facilities at such regular intervals. In such instances
Synergy can help by supplying the Assure™ hand
mousse in either handy 50ml dispensers that can be carried by the
individual or in larger stand alone containers (600ml) or wall
mounted dispensers (800ml) which can be placed at entry / exit
points of rooms / offices / wards / communal areas / toilets etc so
that everyone has the opportunity to maintain the best practical
levels of hand hygiene. The importance of good hand hygiene cannot
be overstated and features on all good national and international
swine flu guidance.
Summary
We are currently experiencing a major influenza pandemic. The
more informed we are about the disease the better equipped we will
be to minimize the numerous risks that it poses to us all. National
and international guidelines all advocate thorough and frequent
hand hygiene and cleaning of environmental surfaces to help reduce
the risk of infection and cross infection. Synergy Health cannot
eliminate the risk of infection however we do have some truly
unparalleled products that can offer you very real benefits in
terms of reducing the risk to you, your loved ones, your
organisation and the people that you live and work alongside.
Whether you require a hand sanitiser, or clinically proven
environmental disinfectants we can tailor our product offering to
meet your needs and ensure you have the best possible solution for
the risks that you are currently facing.
Swine Flu FAQs
We have compiled a list of answers to common questions about the
recent swine flu out break.
Advice available includes information about what swine flu
actually is, what the symptons are, who is at risk, how it can be
spread from person to person and what we can do to reduce the risk
of catching it.
Click here for a
full list of Swine Flu FAQs...