Healthcare: Is Safety your choice or compulsion?
As the queues for Covid patients are never ending, the queues of non-Covid patients waiting to be operated for other... Read More
How has the Pharma kept safe @pandemic
Pandemic or no pandemic, the production of life-saving medicines by the pharma industry is a process that cannot afford to... Read More
Self Sanitisation for Industrial Hygiene
Gaurav Dubey, General Manager, Kimberly Clark Professional India, give us the lowdown on how Covid-19 is going to reorient the... Read More
GMR group supports female-led PPE manufacturing efforts
It has trained hundreds of women to earn and support frontline workers during lockdown GMR Varalakshmi Foundation (GMRVF), the CSR arm ... Read More
Reopening OTs: Challenges and Safe Solutions
Respiratory secretions from Covid-positive patients (whether detected or not) could contaminate the OT environment. What are the safety measures? Covid-19... Read More
Facility Management:
Inching, Walking Striding Back to Business
Is India still in lockdown? Have we restarted our economy? Did our economy ever come to a total standstill that... Read More
Are you wearing the right Mask?
Not all materials used in making masks are virus-resistant
Personal Protective Equipment is most important in preventing the transmission of a virus, and this is not restricted to COVID-19... Read More
How COVID-19 can infect you inside a WASHROOM
In pre-COVID-19 times, if there was any one area of cleaning that received more attention than all others combined, it... Read More
The role of FM workplace & washroom
The role of facility services in Unlock 2.0 has gained momentum, especially in workplaces which need to be cleaned and... Read More
Mobile indoor disinfection sprayer to combat COVID-19
Scientists at CSIR-Central Mechanical Engineering Research Institute (CMERI), Durgapur, have developed two mobile indoor Disinfection Sprayer units. These units can... Read More
Marriott group reveals response to Covid-19
Marriott International has issued a statement disclosing its cleaning protocols in the time of covid-19. At the employee level, this... Read More
Railway coaches converted to covid care centers
To serve as a backup in case existing quarantine or isolation centers become full, Indian Railways is converting 5,000 train... Read More
Drones deployed for sanitisation in Varanasi
Varanasi Smart City has engaged a Chennai-based drone company for spraying of sanitiser in selected areas of the city. Spraying... Read More
Infection-proof fabrics to combat HAI
Over one-and-a-half years, Fabiosys Innovations – a startup incubated at IIT Delhi – has developed ‘infection-proof fabrics’ to prevent hospital... Read More
Reopening laundries, reorganising paradigms
Pratibha Vanambathina, Managing Partner, LaundrySpa Dry Cleaning Services Let me be frank with you. All laundry business owners fear... Read More
Air purifying technology to disinfect State hospitals
The Department of Science and Technology (DST) has developed an air purifying technology developed by a company based at Science... Read More
Cost-effective face shields developed by trucks’ dealer
A Volvo Trucks dealer has developed a simple and cost-effective face shield with his team, for the protection of the... Read More
CPCB on handling waste generated during patient treatment
The CPCB has said that less quantity of biomedical waste is expected from quarantine camps, quarantine home, and homecare facilities.... Read More
Six Steps suppliers should take now
Many in the professional cleaning industry report they are swamped right now, with end-customers asking them to help them sanitize... Read More
DRDO to make face masks & Sanitisation Chambers
In the ongoing efforts against the coronavirus pandemic, Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) has been using scientific endeavours to... Read More
