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Hi everyone,
Does anyone have an opinion on, or what have you been doing about lifts in your buildings?
With the return to work, some commercial buildings have wanted to limit to 2 people per lift – which, in a building holding thousands of people, means it will take up to SIX HOURS to get everyone in to work, and another six hours to get them down again!
Using the fire stairs using some for going up and some for going down can be recommended but in a block 40 stories high with thousands of workers, that’s just not going to work.
My feeling on this is that as long as sick people are at home, and everyone is facing the same way so they wouldn’t accidentally sneeze on each other anyway, it’s just too short a time in the lift for it to be an issue?
What have hospitals been doing? Have you restricted access to lifts at all?
Thanks everyone,
Sarah Bailey MSc, PGDip Med Myc
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Hi Sarah,
We do have lift restrictions of 3 people. However, our hospital is not more than 6 stories high, the main entrance is on level three.
Staff mostly use the fire stairs and we have 7 lifts available as well.Kind regards,
Fiona De Sousa CICP-E| Nurse Manager | Infection Prevention & Control Unit
Launceston General Hospital, Level 2, Launceston TAS 7250
phone: 6777 6715 | mobile: 0408 487 197 | fax: 6777 5170 | email: fiona.de.sousa@ths.tas.gov.au |
intranet: http://www.dhhs.tas.gov.au/intranet/thon/infection_controlIPCU – ‘By working together we promote a culture of safety to reduce preventable infections and transmission of multi-resistant organisms’
Hi everyone,
Does anyone have an opinion on, or what have you been doing about lifts in your buildings?
With the return to work, some commercial buildings have wanted to limit to 2 people per lift – which, in a building holding thousands of people, means it will take up to SIX HOURS to get everyone in to work, and another six hours to get them down again!
Using the fire stairs using some for going up and some for going down can be recommended but in a block 40 stories high with thousands of workers, that’s just not going to work.
My feeling on this is that as long as sick people are at home, and everyone is facing the same way so they wouldn’t accidentally sneeze on each other anyway, it’s just too short a time in the lift for it to be an issue?
What have hospitals been doing? Have you restricted access to lifts at all?
Thanks everyone,
Sarah Bailey MSc, PGDip Med Myc
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Safework Australia have updated their guidelines for lifts. Please see the link below.
Lucille Ridley | Group Infection Control Coordinator
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We pay our respect to them and their cultures and to Elders past and present.Hi Sarah,
We do have lift restrictions of 3 people. However, our hospital is not more than 6 stories high, the main entrance is on level three.
Staff mostly use the fire stairs and we have 7 lifts available as well.Kind regards,
Fiona De Sousa CICP-E| Nurse Manager | Infection Prevention & Control Unit
Launceston General Hospital, Level 2, Launceston TAS 7250
phone: 6777 6715 | mobile: 0408 487 197 | fax: 6777 5170 | email: fiona.de.sousa@ths.tas.gov.au |
intranet: http://www.dhhs.tas.gov.au/intranet/thon/infection_controlIPCU By working together we promote a culture of safety to reduce preventable infections and transmission of multi-resistant organisms
Hi everyone,
Does anyone have an opinion on, or what have you been doing about lifts in your buildings?
With the return to work, some commercial buildings have wanted to limit to 2 people per lift – which, in a building holding thousands of people, means it will take up to SIX HOURS to get everyone in to work, and another six hours to get them down again!
Using the fire stairs using some for going up and some for going down can be recommended but in a block 40 stories high with thousands of workers, thats just not going to work.
My feeling on this is that as long as sick people are at home, and everyone is facing the same way so they wouldnt accidentally sneeze on each other anyway, its just too short a time in the lift for it to be an issue?
What have hospitals been doing? Have you restricted access to lifts at all?
Thanks everyone,
Sarah Bailey MSc, PGDip Med Myc
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