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Month: November 2017

Time for a new floor sign?

 

Image taken on location in a hospital (we have kept the name secret for their protection).

 

 

We have a broad range of floor signs available at Mermed. We can be highly flexible and custom design to meet your needs or you can access pre made signs directly on our website.

Working with one of our CSSD clients in New Zealand, the St George’s Hospital in Christchurch, we were very pleased to share how our custom designed floor signs helped them reduce the risk of non-CSSD staff entering designated decontamination areas. Floor signage is a very simple and cost efficient permanent solution that quickly let’s people know that the CSSD is a restricted area.
Below is an example of the actual floor signage implemented in the Christchurch CSSD department at external door entries.

Floor Sign Benefits? What do you need to look for?

When working through the benefits and features of a floor sign we believe they must always stick and stay stuck on the floor and have no corners peeling up which creates a OH&S hazard.

Alan Mercieca, Mermed Managing Director, was very particular about sourcing a product that performed better in the market and overcame traditional floor signage issues. He sourced floor signage with super hi-tac adhesive to ensure the floor sign stays in place and resists peeling. The artwork is printed on a textured vinyl in bright colour. This makes the sign noticeable with an anti-slip surface. The vinyl is then finished with a high quality, laminate that further protects and waterproofs the sign.

Our floor signs don’t require special skills to install. The simple installation steps can be completed by staff on hand in turn saving the department money.

Mermed can custom design all signage and you can access a large range of pre-made signs on our website here.

New Mermed Instrument Protectors

Meeting the needs of our customers with high quality and simple product solutions was the core driver for Tony Mercieca who founded Mermed. His son Alan, current Managing Director, continues those values with products designed by Tony.

Current market product issues and challenges

  • Sharp and delicate instruments need a barrier to stop perforation of the packaging during sterilisation and handling post sterilisation.
  • Current paper protectors such as fold-able cards, foils and laminated cards are often flimsy and can fall apart. Plus paper solutions are not waterproofed and laminate versions may trap moisture after sterilisation causing problems with air entrapment in gravity displacement sterilisers or bench top sterilizers.
  • Instrument tip guards fit over sharp ends and are durable, however they are less flexible and require exact instrument sizing. Additionally, tip guards contact the area to be sterilised which presents further risks and a hazard in the operating room (another item to be lost in a patient).

Mermed Instrument Protector Solution

  • Mermed wanted to resolve the market issues and set out to create a product as durable as the tip guards and flexible as the foldable cards
  • Tony spent several months searching and testing solutions. He eventually sourced a new virgin polypropylene product that can be put through sterilisers without the risk on air entrapment.
  • The design of the new Mermed instrument protectors are also carefully planned to maximise security and flexibility. The protectors will not fall off and can be used with multiple instruments.
  • Mermed’s new protectors can be used in Steam, ETO and low Temp Plasma Sterilsers.

Mermed are pioneering new territory and have also designed a double ended protector, a first of its kind, specifically for dual ended Dental instruments.

 

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