CLEAN CHECK LTD…
Our focus is creating cleaner and environmentally safe places for people to work live and play.
Clean Check is a small Christchurch based business led by Registered Nurse Karen Parker. One of the main factors in the role of a nurse is infection prevention and control and keeping people safe.
We are a small team offering friendly and reliable services, working directly with our clients or through other cleaning contractors.
Clean Check test surfaces to see how clean (or not) they are, and offers advice for remediation, including recommending specific cleaning, and policy / procedure writing.
Karen has been inspired to find safer and more effective ways to achieve cleaner and safer environments, having developed irritant contact dermatitis, a permanent work related injury caused by using alcohol hand sanitisers and chemicals in hand washing soaps.
This resulted in researching a safe and effective alternatives to current chemical based cleaners and sanitisers.
We now use ZOONO surface sanitiser, a NZ product that is clinically proven and safe for people, plants and animals, lasting up to 30 days on surfaces it adheres to.
We sell a new technology called TOUCAN ECO which allow sites to generate their own cleaning and sanitising solution that is 100% safe. No chemicals, no dangerous goods, environmentally friendly and once you have the system there are no ongoing cost except for a little salt.
We are a small team offering friendly and reliable services, working directly with our clients or through other cleaning contractors.
Clean Check test surfaces to see how clean (or not) they are, and offers advice for remediation, including recommending specific cleaning, and policy / procedure writing.
Karen has been inspired to find safer and more effective ways to achieve cleaner and safer environments, having developed irritant contact dermatitis, a permanent work related injury caused by using alcohol hand sanitisers and chemicals in hand washing soaps.
After attending the Infection prevention conference (IPC) in Christchurch, I discovered two really interesting facts:
- Pathogens, superbugs, will constantly mutate and resist most current cleaning technologies, creating the need for even stronger solutions that are more toxic and potentially even more harmful. Particularly alcohol and hypochlorites.
- The World Health Organisation has stated that we can put no more than 70% ALCOHOL IN HAND RUBS! We are there now, so what happens once the pathogens start resisting this? We need safer alcohol free sanitisers.
- We don’t really know if our surfaces are actually clean because we usually don’t test them.
- Often cleaning is done incorrectly, leaving ‘bioburden’ on surfaces that bugs love!
Lets get clean up!
My story
I have always wanted to help people. That is probably why I became a nurse in the 80’s. Two important things that nurses do are, they help people and they help to prevent infection. “As a registered nurse, I can no longer practice my clinical career as a result of irritant contact dermatitis, a permanent injury caused by using alcohol hand rubs and chemicals in hand washing soaps. But this has led me to another career I was passionate about, Infection prevention and control. After attending the Infection prevention conference (IPC) in Christchurch last year, I discovered two really interesting facts. One, the potential risk we are exposed to from pathogens, superbugs, that mutate and resist current cleaning technologies, creating the need for even stronger solutions that are more toxic and potentially even more harmful. Particularly alcohol and hypochlorites. The World Health Organisation has stated that we can put no more than 70% ALCOHOL IN HAND RUBS! We are there now, so what happens once the pathogens start resisting this? We need another solution, which I finally found in Zoono. The other interesting fact, was that we don’t really know if our surfaces are actually clean because we don’t test them. Even in hospitals and clinical environments, unless there is an outbreak, and then it’s too late! Often surfaces look clean, but they are not. Microbes are microscopic and cannot be seen by the naked eye, so why are we not testing surfaces to identify the risks?