For Care and Nursing Homes, hygiene and infection control is critical. The laundry is a key part of this, with laundry equipment needing to meet specific legal and compliance requirements, including:
- Disinfection of laundry – for example with thermal disinfection (defined in HTM 01-04 as hitting at or above 65°C for 10 minutes, or 71° for 3 minutes)
- Closed drain – contaminated laundry to go into a washing machine with a closed/gravity drain
- Soluble laundry bags – Soiled and infected linen should be placed in a bag (e.g. ‘red bags’)
- Water Regulations, Fluid Category 5 – commercial washing machines need to provide backflow protection to the highest standard, fluid category 5.
- Gravity drain – laundry should go into a washing machine with a gravity drain, not a pump drain.
At JTM Service, we are specialists in the Care sector, and we supply and install commercial laundry equipment from leading manufacturers which are certified to meet the requirements of the Water Regulations and HTM01-04. For more information, please see our FREE GUIDE on Care Compliance Requirements, and contact us on 0113 2572221 or info@jtmservice.co.uk.
