Care homes carry the heaviest infection-outbreak burden in the country, and the product on most walls is ineffective against the dominant threat, hazardous around the residents, and hard on the carers.
Care homes account for around 74% of all reported acute respiratory infection outbreaks in England, and norovirus, the dominant winter threat, ran at more than twice its five-season average in 2024 and 2025. Alcohol hand gel does not kill norovirus: the official advice is soap and water. The everyday tool does not cover the everyday threat.
It is also a safety hazard around the people you care for. Coroners' reports record a death from unintentional sanitiser ingestion in a resident living with dementia, and UK sanitiser poisonings rose 157% over a single year. For homes supporting dementia, learning-disability and mental-health residents, an ingestible alcohol product on an open wall is a risk you carry.
And it wears your carers down. Occupational hand dermatitis affects between a fifth and a half of care and health workers, rising sharply above ten to twenty hand-hygiene episodes a day, which is routine for a carer. Sore, cracked skin drives non-compliance and creates a COSHH and RIDDOR liability. All of this sits under CQC Regulation 12, which inspectors now assess as a standalone area.
You get all three: protection that covers what gel misses, an alcohol-free formulation safe around vulnerable residents, and a product gentle enough for the way carers actually work.
It is independently tested to and passes the recognised European hygiene standards, including the virucidal and sporicidal standards for norovirus and C. difficile, the pathogens that drive outbreaks in care and that alcohol gel does not touch. So it closes the spectrum gap rather than leaving it open.
And because there is no alcohol, there is no ingestion-toxicity pathway around residents living with dementia or learning disability, and it is non-flammable. It is gentle enough for the carer doing hand hygiene dozens of times a day, which supports compliance and eases the dermatitis exposure you manage under COSHH. It complements soap and water for visibly soiled hands and during diarrhoea and vomiting outbreaks, exactly as SICPs require, so it strengthens your IPC position for inspection rather than complicating it.
Broad-spectrum protection, independently tested to and passing the virucidal and sporicidal standards for norovirus and C. difficile, the pathogens that drive care-home outbreaks and that alcohol gel cannot touch.
Alcohol-free, so it removes the documented fatal-ingestion and poisoning risk that alcohol gel carries around residents living with dementia, learning disability or mental ill health.
Gentle enough for hand hygiene done dozens of times a day, supporting compliance and easing the occupational dermatitis that drives sickness absence and RIDDOR exposure.
Keeps safe, effective hand hygiene available across the home, supporting the Regulation 12 IPC duty CQC now assesses as a standalone area, with evidence for your file.
Non-flammable and alcohol-free, removing a fire and ingestion hazard from a residential environment with vulnerable people in it.
A single hand-hygiene option you can standardise across sites, auditable for your quality and compliance team and simple to roll out.
The burden and the hazard are documented. The alternative is independently tested and proven to standard.
The UK environmental and safety duties that commonly reach social care. Open any one for what it requires, the deadlines, what is at stake, and how to evidence control. Every entry is sourced.
Is it easy for my staff to use, is it safe around my residents, and is it proven and compliant for inspection? Three fair questions, with straight answers.
It is independently tested to and passes the recognised European standards, including the virucidal and sporicidal standards for norovirus and C. difficile, so it covers the gap gel leaves. It is alcohol-free, so it removes the ingestion hazard around vulnerable residents, and it is gentle enough for the way carers actually work. It complements soap and water during diarrhoea and vomiting outbreaks exactly as SICPs require. We start with a trial in one home and prove the fit in your own environment.
It is independently tested to and passes the recognised European hygiene standards, including the virucidal and sporicidal standards for norovirus and C. difficile, the pathogens that drive care-home outbreaks and that alcohol gel does not kill.
It does not kill norovirus, the dominant winter outbreak threat, so the official advice is soap and water. It is also a documented ingestion hazard around residents living with dementia or learning disability, and frequent use drives carer hand dermatitis.
It is designed for exactly this setting. Being alcohol-free, it removes the ingestion-toxicity hazard that alcohol gel carries around residents who may swallow it, and it is non-flammable.
Yes. It is designed for the very high-frequency hand hygiene a carer performs, and being alcohol-free it avoids the cumulative skin damage that frequent alcohol gel use causes and that erodes compliance.
It supports your Regulation 12 IPC duty, which CQC now assesses as a standalone area, by keeping safe and effective hand hygiene available across the home, with independently tested evidence for your file. It complements soap and water during outbreaks, as SICPs require.
Tell us where hand hygiene is causing you a safety, compliance or skin-health problem. We will set up a trial in one home and prove the fit in your own environment.
Tell us the cost, the risk or the obligation you are facing. A senior member of our team will respond, in confidence, with how we would help.
