{"id":5718,"date":"2020-04-21T13:41:26","date_gmt":"2020-04-21T12:41:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/expertcomment\/?p=5718"},"modified":"2020-04-21T13:41:28","modified_gmt":"2020-04-21T12:41:28","slug":"ppe-production-guidance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/expertcomment\/ppe-production-guidance\/","title":{"rendered":"PPE production guidance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Dr Anne Nortcliffe offers guidance on how to safely produce PPE in the fight against Covid-19<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Over the\nlast few weeks, we have seen an amazing effort not only from the engineering\ncommunity, but from people in all walks of life to help support with the\nproduction of personal protections equipment (PPE) for our frontline staff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The University\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.canterbury.ac.uk\/business\/edge-hub\/edge-hub.aspx\">Kent and Medway Engineering, Design, Growth and Enterprise (EDGE) Hub<\/a> team of engineers and scientists are also busy in helping the community of 3D printers, 3DCrowdUK, to produce face visors and masks safely. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Covid-19 is unlike any previous virus and\nwhen producing PPE at home, or in industry, the same principles must be applied as if you\nwere manufacturing food to be sold to the public. Therefore, I have been analysing the scientific research into\nCovid-19 to help inform health and safety manufacturing of face visors during\nthis crisis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Research\ncurrently shows that the virus is still evident after four hours on copper and\nafter 72 hours on plastic and stainless-steel surfaces. It is not as stable on\ncardboard, with no viable SARS-COV-2 measured after 24 hours, and SARS-COV-1 was\nnot viable after 8 hours, which means for manufacturing purposes it is best to\nuse cardboard packaging instead of plastic. Any manufactured goods of plastic\nor stainless steel within cardboard packaging should be quarantined for 72\nhours before use. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Any\nworkspace, keyboards, computer screens, door handles in the working environment\nneeds to be regularly disinfected and cleaned using 62-71% alcohol sanitizer; clean clothes to be worn, washed\nin a machine at 60<sup>o<\/sup>C, and of\ncourse, social distancing should be practiced at all times in a work place due\nto the aerosol dispersion of the virus. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Therefore, when manufacturing and assembling\nfacial visors, the following guidance should be adhered:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>more than one person involved ensure social distancing 2m or more<\/li><li>wear clean clothes washed at 60\u00b0C for 15 minutes\u00a0or more<\/li><li>wash hands regularly for 20 seconds, and sanitize hands using 62-71% alcohol sanitizer,\u00a0<\/li><li>wear face mask, and hair nets<\/li><li>disinfect manufacturing and fabrication surfaces with 62-71% alcohol\u00a0and fabrication and packaging<\/li><li>use a lint free cloth not to damage visor<\/li><li>shake the visor when fabricated to check it does not fall apart when in use<\/li><li>each face visor to be placed in a zip bag and sealed<\/li><li>label each zip bag, showing non-sterile, single use, date of manufacture<\/li><li>store in a cardboard box, label the box with the content and date sealed<\/li><li>quarantine for 72 hours before use.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Dr Anne Nortcliffe, is the Head of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.canterbury.ac.uk\/social-and-applied-sciences\/engineering-technology-and-design\/school-of-engineering-technology-and-design.aspx\">School of Engineering, Technology and Design<\/a> and has experience in engineering for the food and chemical sector.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em><br> The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.canterbury.ac.uk\/business\/edge-hub\/edge-hub.aspx\">Edge Hub <\/a>are proactively looking for ways to support key workers and regional businesses during this COVID19 crisis. Please contact\u00a0 <\/em><\/strong><a href=\"mailto:edgehub@canterbury.ac.uk\"><strong><em>edgehub@canterbury.ac.uk<\/em><\/strong><\/a><strong><em> if you would like to discuss ways\u00a0 to collaborate or offer support at this time. You can also follow Edge Hub on twitter @CCCUEdgeHub.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Anne Nortcliffe offers guidance on how to safely produce PPE in the fight against Covid-19<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":242,"featured_media":5721,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2169],"tags":[3358,3365,3454,3461,3450,3458],"class_list":["post-5718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-engineering","tag-coronavirus","tag-covid-19","tag-face-mask","tag-health-and-safety","tag-ppe","tag-visors"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"authorName":"Jeanette Earl","featuredImage":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/expertcomment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/437\/2020\/04\/PPE-health-and-safety.jpg","postExcerpt":"Dr Anne Nortcliffe offers guidance on how to safely produce PPE in the fight against Covid-19","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/expertcomment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/expertcomment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/expertcomment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/expertcomment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/242"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/expertcomment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5718"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/expertcomment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5730,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/expertcomment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5718\/revisions\/5730"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/expertcomment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/expertcomment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/expertcomment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/expertcomment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}