Stay Grounded: The Vital Role of Anti-Static Castors in Healthcare!
A primary concern in every medical environment is the quality of the equipment. In medical settings, almost every appliance is on wheels. As such, the choice and design of medical castor wheels should be at the top of every maintenance engineer’s list. Here’s why anti-static castors are crucial for medical equipment.
What Is Static Discharge?
To understand why anti-static wheels are so important, it helps to understand the problem that they are designed to prevent. Static is an imbalance of electric charges. These charges build-up until they find a route through which the electricity can travel. These are most often felt as sparks, although a tiny spark in the wrong environment – such as around oxygen – can make itself visible in the form of a very large explosion.
Will Anti-Static Discharge Damage Medical Equipment?
Medical equipment is particularly vulnerable to static discharge. Indeed, it is thought that one-third of medical circuit-board failures in machines such as CT scanners, drug-delivery systems, and cardiac monitoring systems result from this problem. Static discharge tends to affect the resistors and microprocesses found in almost all medical equipment, and damage ranges from intermittent malfunctions to complete failure. Therefore, static electricity is something to take incredibly seriously in the medical setting.
Is It Possible To Protect Medical Equipment From Static Build-Up?
Thankfully, anti-static castor wheels can make a significant difference to the problem of static build-up in the medical environment. Medical anti-static wheels utilise the strength of high-grade steel and the anti-static properties of rubber to create a solution that is a strong, durable, and highly effective component of electrostatic discharge control programmes. This enhances the safety both of the medical equipment, and the patients who rely upon it.
Are There Other Benefits To Anti-Static Castors?
In environments of healing, comfort is essential. Research shows that every little detail that reduces noise, or makes movement smoother, needs to be considered. Anti-static wheels are an excellent method of controlling noise while guaranteeing a soft journey. This is due to the materials of hospital bed castors, which are naturally soft and comfortable. The same is true of hospital equipment castors, which can be rolled silently into a room and quietly away again without disturbing the patient.
Do Anti-Static Castors Meet Industry Standards For Resistance Values?
The medical industry has stringent standards for static electricity resistance values. Each piece of equipment has its own standards. However, anti-static hospital equipment castors are designed to comply with the requirements of all medical equipment, so they are a blanket solution to the safety hazard of static electricity.
What Next?
Static electricity can be an invisible killer inside medical settings. Medical-grade hospital bed wheels and hospital equipment castors can protect equipment as well as patients. To learn more, get your Rolltek catalogue today.
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