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Case Study National Orthopaedic Hospital Cappagh

To illustrate one of CLEANPASS’s main service areas – Training of support staff in cleaning and decontamination, here is a short case study on how CLEANPASS training impacted the Hygiene Levels at a Dublin hospital. The first part of our CLEANPASS’s approach is to meet the staff of the hospital and understand the challenges that […]

Minimise risk of Exposure to COVID-19 in the Workplace

We are living in unprecedented times with the outbreak of COVID-19. This pandemic has uprooted the way every one of us live our lives. We are all being asked to stay at home to protect our healthcare workers on the frontline. We must protect each other by staying apart Here at CLEANPASS, we understand all […]

First Do No Harm – the case for environmental cleaning.

“It may seem a strange principle to enunciate as the first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm” (Florence Nightingale, Notes on Hospitals 1859). This statement dates to the mid 1800’s and means that no matter what a Healthcare Worker does or does not do, the first requirement is […]

Cleanliness counts – CPE and Environmental Hygiene

The Expert Group on CPR policy document (Acute Hospital Carbapenemase Producing Enterobacteriales (CPE) Outbreak Control Checklist, Version 1.0 March 2018) gave emphasis on the importance of environmental cleaning education and audit in controling the spread of CPE. CLEANPASS is currently the only organisation in Ireland that provides training in environmental and equipment cleaning encompassing techniques […]