Zippsafe in Surgery Locker Rooms
With its innovative locker solution, Zippsafe is making a significant contribution to improving hygiene in employee locker rooms. Read now, why Zippsafe is the ideal solution for surgery locker rooms and what convinced our customers in addition to Zippsafe's special hygiene standards.
What challenges do surgical locker rooms present in hospitals?
In sensitive operating room (OR) environments, infection prevention is top priority. In the "unclean" sluice areas preceding the OR, strict hygiene mandates coincide with high staff turnover (e.g., attending doctors and residents) within severely restricted floor space. Conventional metal lockers lack the capacity to serve everyone individually and can harbor germ cross-contamination as well as odor issues.
Why is Zippsafe ideal for OR locker rooms?
Zippsafe seamlessly combines maximum space efficiency with superior hygiene standards. The antimicrobial Smartfabric featuring ViralOff® coating eliminates 99% of viruses and bacteria within two hours, while an integrated ventilation system with an active carbon filter reduces humidity and odors. Designed for high throughput, Zippsafe excels in non-personalized "Free Mode": clear green/red LEDs indicate available locker bags that employees can easily secure using their RFID badges.
"A surgery locker room, tidy and more hygienic than ever before,"
Audrey Reffay, head of the OR department
Audrey Reffay, head of the OR department
What makes the installations at customers like Schwabach and CHEM special?
The solution has proven highly successful in real-world OR environments: By replacing traditional lockers with four ZippSpace Pro M systems, Stadtkrankenhaus Schwabach created 20 changing spaces each within tiny footprints of just 13 m2 and 8.6 m2.
Similarly, Centre Hospitalier Emile Mayrisch (CHEM) in Luxembourg successfully deployed Zippsafe in its OR changing areas. Feedback from OR management and project planners has been so overwhelmingly positive that Zippsafe is now being evaluated for their major new "Südspidol" hospital building.