We recently gathered an exceptional panel of healthcare construction safety professionals for a discussion about common challenges during occupied healthcare renovations. The panel provided meaningful advice for tackling a variety of safety challenges pulled from both their experience and from our customers’ field notes. ICYM ...
4 Ways We Design Safety into Our Modular Wall Solutions
[Content updated March 6, 2023] Spend a little time talking with our Vice President of Product Development, Bruce Bickford, and you’ll quickly realize just how much safety factors into STARC's design process. Keeping patients and staff safe during an occupied renovation is at the core of our mission to raise the standard for ...
Changes You May Have Missed with Modular Temporary Containment for Healthcare
It’s easy to miss the many important changes with modular temporary containment for occupied healthcare renovations. And, the measuring sticks for grading temporary containment have advanced – significantly – and quickly. We talk about this a lot around here - and with our customers. We asked our VP of Business Development (and ...
SRA and ICRA: New Developments in Healthcare Construction Safety
By Janet Haas, Principal Consulting Epidemiologist at Innovative Infection Prevention We are honored to welcome our infection prevention advisor, Janet Haas, as a guest author to help us understand these healthcare construction safety developments. Dr. Haas is currently Principal Consulting Epidemiologist at Innovative ...
5 Containment Questions for Healthcare Project Pre-Planning
Our healthcare contractor customers have shared reams of notes from the field with us over the years. One thing is clear: healthcare contractors have ‘settled’ for traditional, often inferior, methods for containment challenges for far too long. Methods which can create as many problems as they solve, contributing to ...
What The Construction Industry Needs to Know About ICRA in a Healthcare Setting
Proper containment is essential to Infection Control Risk Assessment (ICRA) and maintaining a safe construction site while working within a healthcare facility. Every crew member must go into the project with a solid understanding of ICRA to establish and maintain appropriate containment.
Temporary Containment Solution Demonstrates ROI After 3 to 5 Uses Compared To Other Methods
Billions of dollars are being invested into healthcare facility renovations every year, with data showing that renovation spending will increase between $8 billion and $9 billion by 2020.