Sustainable healthcare with SafeDon Hygiene System
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The SafeDon Hygiene System effectively reduces your glove consumption and waste
Unlike traditional glove boxes, our system offers remarkable improvements that have been proven in numerous studies over the years.
Studies show an average of 33 % reduction of glove waste when the using SafeDon Hygiene System.
A recent 2024 Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) conducted by the Nordic Center for Sustainable Healthcare (NCSH) highlights the significant impact of the SafeDon Hygiene System in today's healthcare system compared to traditional glove boxes, showing it’s effects on:
Reduced glove consumption
Reduced glove waste
Reduced materials, energy and transport
Reduced CO2 emissions
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Taking the numbers from the NCSH´s analysis using open LCA as a basis, the studies gave remarkable results on reduced glove waste, hazardous waste, glove consumption and CO2.
SafeDon Hygiene System is a unique dispensing system for gloves
Preventing users from touching the glove's most critical surfaces, the box, and the other gloves in the box by simply dispensing one glove at a time with the cuff first.
Dispensing one single glove each time with the cuff first
Prevents multiple users from contaminating the box and the other gloves inside the box
Prevents gloves from falling out of the box, and reducing unnecessary glove waste
Prevents users from touching the gloves most critical surfaces: -thumb, fingers and palm
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The figure shows how the elements of CO2 emissions per million gloves is affected with a reduction of 33 %.
CO2 Saved
Experience a significant reduction in your carbon footprint by lowering glove consumption by an average of 33 %.
Not only does this reduce the amount of gloves you consume, it also improves your emissions across your entire supply chain, including raw materials, transportation, cardboard, electricity, and waste:
Examples
Using the parameteres given by the NCSH’s Life Cycle Analysis, we are able to show different situations where the Safedon Hygiene System effectively aids hospitals and clinics of varying sizes in mitigating glove waste, hazardous waste, and CO2 emissions. See the examples below:
Parameters: 5 000.000 gloves from traditional boxes / year vs. 3 335 000 gloves from SafeDon Hygiene System / year. Estimated an average of 33 % reduced glove consumption by using the SafeDon Hygiene System.
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Emissions estimated by reducing from 5 million to 3,3 million gloves used.
Waste estimated from reducing from 5
to 3,3 million gloves used.
Waste Saved
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There is an impact on reduced infectious waste, as around 30 % of
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Acrylonitrile 8 346 kg CO2-eq Electricity 7 049 kg CO2-eq Transport and cardboard 620 kg CO2-eq Waste 5 772 kg CO2-eq Total Reduction 21 787 kg CO2-eq
CO2 Reduction (kg) Acrylonitrile 41 729 kg CO2-eq Electricity 35 244 kg CO2-eq Transport and cardboard 3 102 kg CO2-eq Waste 28 859 kg CO2-eq Total Reduction 108 933 kg CO2-eq
Example
Reduced Waste (kg)
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Source: LCA conducted by NCSH (Nordic Center for Sustainable Healthcare).
Parameters: 1 000 000 gloves
disposed
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the
gloves
be considered within this category.
Infectious
Total
362 kg
Waste Saved
Overall, the SafeDon Hygiene System is a cost-effective way of lowering the CO2 impact of single-use items in healthcare facilities. Reduced Waste Reduced CO2 Emissions Reduced Glove Consumption
”An investment in the system will have no negative effects on patients’ safety nor on the working environment in healthcare facilities. On the contrary, the investment will have immediate positive effects due to the reduced risk of contamination”.
- NCSH (Nordic Center for Sustainable Healthcare)
Source: LCA conducted by NCSH (Nordic Center for Sustainable Healthcare).
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