The New Normal: Procuring the Right Products for Infection Control

September 2022

In the age of COVID health and safety plans in the workplace, medical staff must be particularly vigilant about maintaining the highest standard of infection controls, testing for infection regularly, and ensuring vaccines and flu shots are required for staff.

Health care professionals now play a more important role than ever before in protecting the health and safety of the community.

For medical staff, ‘the new normal’ means a heightened awareness of preventative safety measures put in place to prevent the spread of infection.

In addition to this, staff are responsible for the ongoing review of standards and regulations for hospitals and clinical settings to ensure they are up to date on the latest products, practices, and standards.

With the present global health challenges, procurement managers are in the unique position where the responsibility of ensuring the products are being ordered and stocked in accordance with updated standards and regulations.

In fact, procurement has never before played such a crucial role in health and safety in the workplace as it has in the past 24 months.

Procurement managers are working closely with medical staff to ensure products purchased are in line with hospital policies and standards.

It is important health care professionals can access product information from their suppliers.

At Thermo Fisher Scientific we feel strongly about providing health care workers with proper guidance on what the best practices are for PPE, sterilisation, and minimising the risk of infection. Which is why we have cultivated a diverse offering of products that have been selected and curated from industry-specific suppliers to address this emerging market.