Medical procedural areas require completely sterile finish solutions to meet infectious disease control regulations and to verify patient safety protocols. Improperly sterilized procedural areas can put patients and medical staff in an unsafe environment that can promote infection and disease with extreme consequences. This issue has become even more of a problem considering the current situation related to Covid 19. Having properly selected floor finish solutions can support the sterilization requirements with a fully seamless anti-microbial compliant application to support patient health.
A common facility standard for procedural area floor finishes has been heat welded sheet vinyl to support cleanable hygienic environments to meet regulated sterilization requirements. Some of the downfalls of this flooring solution are their significant susceptibility to failure due to moisture intrusion, chemical attack, and system failure at the seam locations over time. As resinous flooring technology has become more advanced there are now seamless anti-microbial floor solutions that eliminate many of the downfalls of current floor finish solutions.
One obstacles of any solution are that installation operations may need to be performed in a fully functioning hospital area on a very limited schedule allotment. This can be accomplished by developing a solution with the right team of experts that can custom design the right application for critical procedural areas. The solution can provide a fully compliant, decorative, anti-microbial application that will support all jurisdictional and infectious disease control regulations. These applications can be installed in a safe procedure to allow the most limited interruption to facility operations as possible.
System Components
- Finish Coat – Highly Chemical/Abrasion Resistant Polyurethane
- Grout/Seal Coat – Chemical Resistant High Solids Epoxy
- Decorative Coat- Decorative Flakes in Fast Cure Epoxy
- Base Coat - Decorative Flakes in Anti-Microbial Urethane Cement
- Substrate – Properly Prepared Concrete