Is Your Laundry Hygienically Clean Certified?
Are you working with a Hygienically Clean linen service facility for your healthcare business? If not, it might be high time you do! TRSA-certified Hygienically Clean service providers can guarantee you hygienic linens, based on some of the highest standards in the industry.
What is a Hygienically Clean Certification?
Hygienically Clean certifications are granted to laundry service facilities that have passed rigorous, independent tests on the integrity of the facility. This internationally-recognized standard uses an outcome-based process to confer the certification. Each laundry facility that applies for the badge goes through a series of three independent tests on laundered products, each one examined for presence and levels of pathogens in washed textiles.
The certifications are available for linen service providers for the healthcare, hospitality, and food service industries.
What does it mean to be Hygienically Clean?
Laundry service companies that carry the Hygienically Clean certification are confirmed to exhibit Best Management Practices (BMPs). This means that these certified facilities have in place:
- Well-trained and amply-protected employees
- OSHA-compliant practices
- Effective physical plants
- Plant managers who have full knowledge and understanding of the legal requirements for running a laundry facility
Objectivity of Tests
Certifications are based on three rounds of testing conducted on products to check for the presence and number of pathogens. The Hygienically Clean test does not grant or deny certifications based on individual and unique processes and service providers are free to operate and launder using processes, protocols, and chemicals they deem are effective in eliminating microbes.
Only products that have been proven to be free of harmful pathogens in illness-inducing levels get the certification. Quality is further maintained by requiring certified facilities like HandCraft to pass quarterly tests on products. Certifications may be revoked if facilities fail to pass these quarterly tests.
The Benefits of Working with a Hygienically Clean Linen Service Provider
Working with a Hygienically Clean linen service providers ensures that your linens are cleaned and treated according to federal and international standards and proven to be safe for healthcare use.
Partnering with certified laundries affords you:
- Client Confidence – your clients are assured that the linens you are offering them are linens cleaned to the highest standards
- Employee Confidence – your employees will go to work knowing that they are using linens that are cleaned and maintained according to international standards
- Your own peace of mind knowing that you’ll never have to second-guess the integrity of the linens and uniforms that you offer your clients and employees
HandCraft is Hygienically Clean!
We take safety and hygiene seriously, which is why we have gone through the painstaking process of getting certified. We have a modern facility and a team of well-trained individuals, making sure that every item that we process is safe for your use.
Grant your business, workers, and clients the kind of peace of mind that can only come from knowing that your linens and uniforms are in their best, cleanest condition possible!
Contact HandCraft today at 888.358.8671 or connect with us here to get our Hygienically Clean services!
For more information on Hygienically Clean certifications, visit hygienicallyclean.org.
