Outbreak readiness
Outbreak confirmed? A leased machine means you act immediately.
Infection events escalate by the hour. Organisations leasing a Sanondaf machine treat the affected space with their own trained staff, the same hour it is reported — no waiting for a contractor. Call the Shropshire & West Midlands office and we will triage the situation, advise on immediate containment, and get a machine placed with you.
Lease snapshotA hybrid option if you are unsure
If your team has not handled an outbreak before, you do not have to choose between leasing and a full attended service. We can attend with a couple of our machines at a reduced rate to help organise, supervise or run the first treatment alongside your staff, then hand over to your trained operators once you are confident. The same technology is leased and used by our hybrid service teams across NHS England and Scotland, county councils and some of the UK's largest companies and institutions. Our attended teams have also supported vessels and platforms including Marine Scotland offshore patrol vessels and research vessel MV Scotia, CalMac ferries, Stena Line, Western Ferries and offshore platforms.
Call 07462 479 576 to discuss a hybrid responseTime back for your team
One trained team. Fewer hand-offs.
For your organisation, a machine already on site means approved areas can be treated on your timetable. In an urgent situation, a trained colleague may be able to start within around ten minutes once the area is prepared — while an external booking may still be awaiting a quote, approval or arrival. Your own signed-off team follows your site standards rather than having to brief a new visitor on them each time.
In-house does not mean skipping safeguards: cleaning first, trained operators, your risk assessment, exclusion, dwell time, re-entry checks and a treatment record still apply. A room may be ready within the hour where the validated process and site conditions allow; this is not a guaranteed turnaround.
When a machine on site pays for itself
- Confirmed norovirus, C. diff, CPE or flu outbreak
- Suspected Candida auris or novel pathogen
- Sewage escape, blood or bodily fluid contamination
- Mould growth affecting occupied rooms
- Food site contamination or product hold
- Ward, cohort or classroom closure
What to have ready
It speeds mobilisation considerably if you can tell us:
- Site address, access arrangements and out-of-hours contact
- Number and approximate size of the affected rooms
- The organism or contamination suspected, if known
- Whether the area can be vacated and sealed
- Sensitive equipment that must stay in place
- Any deadline — reopening, inspection or patient flow
Plan ahead
Better still, have the response agreed before you need it
Risk assessments increasingly require a named, documented decontamination response. We can pre-agree call-off arrangements and RAMS so the answer is already on file — or, for approved organisations, place machines on your sites so your own trained staff can act immediately.
The bigger shift is that a leased machine lets you plan rather than react. Instead of calling for help and waiting six to twenty-four hours, your operators start a treatment in about five minutes — and at roughly £10 a room they can work preventatively during normal downtime, treating the offices as well as the labs and the canteen as well as the theatres.