Care Homes

Running a care home presents plenty of challenges, some of which it is wise to outsource to a friendly and cost effective specialist. Below are a few tips on some of the areas in which you must be compliant. Or you may find that it’s easier to contact us and we will help get you started on the road to compliance.

You take great care in looking after your residents, and make them feel appreciated and loved. The great food, warm showers and fluffy towels you provide are amazing, but have you ever thought about the dangers that lie behind all these great services?

With all our services, excellent work is only half the story.  In the event of an inspection, you will need to be able to demonstrate that your care home is compliant; it won’t be enough for you to know that it is.

We provide all the required documentation, including before and after photographs and post clean and maintenance reports so you can be sure that your service users are safe and you are protected from any liability for negligence.  We will keep copies of all your compliance reports on our web portal so you can always view or print them.

Your daily cleaners can’t reach these areas and don’t have the skills to make them safe. We do. It’s a specialist job. Let’s work together to keep your residents, staff and building safe and healthy.

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Your Legal Responsibility 

Kitchen. Extract fans take the smells and moisture from cooking out of the building through the ductwork. With these go particles of fat and grease that could solidify and cause build up on the surface of the ductwork causing a fire hazard.

Kitchen extract ductwork accumulates fat, oil and grease deposits in even the most spotless kitchen; and these constitute a fire risk which you must control as a legal duty.  If you have a kitchen on the premises, you will need a schedule for cleaning your kitchen extract ductwork in compliance with TR19® Grease, the new specification for fire risk management.  Again, not complying with TR19® Grease could be construed legally as negligence, as Fire Safety Kitchen Extract Cleaning is an essential part of fire prevention.

How often you need to clean will depend on how many hours you kitchen is in operation.  You may have more than one home, and differing usage patterns for your kitchens.  We can help you to work out the most cost effective cleaning schedule and carry out work quickly and efficiently so that you are compliant.