Maintaining hygiene is vital in these environments to protect potentially vulnerable service users from the spread of infection. Unfortunately, cleaning is often one of the main methods of cross-contamination, with germs carried between areas on cleaning tools that haven’t been sufficiently cleaned between uses, so choosing hygienic solutions is the most important step for health and safety.

Service users may also be particularly at risk of injury should they experience an accident like a slip, trip or fall, which means that cleaning and safely maintaining floor surfaces is especially important in these environments.