Protect Water Based Alcohol Free Sanitiser 10 x 50ml (only £0.50p per refill)

PROTECT is a water based, alcohol free and simultaneously sanitises and moisturises the skin.

Great for kids as it's alcohol free and kind on hands.

PROTECT exhibits the following key qualities when in use:

• Non‐corrosive
• Non‐irritant
• Non toxic
• Non flammable
• Food safe
• Cost effective (£0.38 per refill)
• Excellent levels of user acceptance and prolonged antimicrobial effect for up to 4 hours per application

What is PROTECT?

PROTECT is a skin antiseptic which offers a safe, effective and user friendly skin cleansing disinfection and sanitation. It can be utilised across a wide range of industries from healthcare to educaonal establishments, to food processing to veterinary science. 

What has it been designed for?

PROTECT has been developed as a skin sanitiser used for situations where skin and hand hygiene are of paramount importance.

PROTECT will interrupt the key transmission pathways of the hands, by reducing the microbes present on the skin to its lowest possible level. This reduces the risk of cross infection and contamination.

How does PROTECT effect microbes?

PROTECT is a powerful lytic agent which is based on the quaternary ammonium compounds benzalkonium chloride and didecyldimethyl ammonium chloride. These have multiple affects and points of action within the microbe which include:

• Denaturation of essential microbial proteins
• Physical disruption of membrane lipids
• Bacteria cell walls

Proteins and lipids are essential components of bacteria, viruses, fungi and bacterial spores. Significant damage to these key microbial components is often fatal for the organism.

PROTECT causes rapid and significant changes at multiple sites within the microbe.

The magnitude of these affect is so great that it is typically lethal to the microbe within minutes of contact.

PROTECT VERSUS ALCOHOL GEL

CASE STUDY - ALDER HEY HOSPITAL

In April/May 2013 the Alder Hey IP&C team identified TECcare PROTECT as a potential replacement for their existing alcohol based hand rubs. TECcare PROTECT (see Figure 1) meets the NICE definition for hand rubs by having EN1500 certification.5

In addition, it is a water based, non-toxic, non-irritant, alcohol-free, broad spectrum bactericidal, virucidal and fungicidal hand rub which offers prolonged antimicrobial protection for the skin and simultaneously sanitises and moisturises the skin during use.

A structured product evaluation took place across HDU and Cardiology where all staff were issued with individual 50ml bottles to determine user acceptance of the new product.

Staff feedback took place via structured questionnaires which were returned after the four week evaluation period.

In addition, the IP&C team monitored product usage over four weeks to determine product suitability for the new build when it opens

How effective is PROTECT?

See below the table on the summary of microbial classes and the results of extensive in‐vitro testing;