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Hi ACIPC Folk,
Can I please get a consensus about the use of overshoes in theatres?
We don’t ordinarily use them but sometimes visiting locums don’t come prepared and end up having to use spare shoes.
What is the OSH perspective? Do overshoes (if they are used) need to have grip patterns on the sole?
Not nice to have to use someone else’s shoes either.
Thanking you in advance, regards, Nadene
Nadene Walker
Clinical Nurse Specialist
Infection Prevention and ControlWA Country Health Service – Great Southern
Albany Health Campus
Warden Ave Albany WA 6330
PO Box 252 Albany WA 6331
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Yes we utilise these and they are policy for us for outside shoes. They do have grips on the bottom
Nicole King
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Westbourne Street, St Leonards NSW 2065Hi ACIPC Folk,
Can I please get a consensus about the use of overshoes in theatres?
We don’t ordinarily use them but sometimes visiting locums don’t come prepared and end up having to use spare shoes.
What is the OSH perspective? Do overshoes (if they are used) need to have grip patterns on the sole?
Not nice to have to use someone else’s shoes either.
Thanking you in advance, regards, Nadene
Nadene Walker
Clinical Nurse Specialist
Infection Prevention and ControlWA Country Health Service – Great Southern
Albany Health Campus
Warden Ave Albany WA 6330
PO Box 252 Albany WA 6331
P (08) 98922211 F (08) 98426037
M: 0428 086 062 (Business hours)[cid:image001.png@01D3E2D6.275113E0][cid:image002.png@01D3E2D6.275113E0][cid:image003.png@01D3E2D6.275113E0]
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Hi Nadene
We supply disposable overshoes (with soles with grip patterns on them) but they are not mandatory. Provided outside shoes are clean with no mud or debris on them, they can be worn throughout the OT complex, including in theatres. Overshoes are mainly provided to give protection to those who don’t want to splash fluid on their Gucci loafers. 🙂
Most of our staff, including most of our regular surgeons, have inside shoes or boots they wear. It’s mainly assistants, anaesthetists and reps who use the overshoes.
We changed our policy a few years ago, recognising that the floor is not a major vector for infection during procedures, and that touching shoes (to put on overshoes) is more likely to contaminate hands that leaving them alone. We don’t ‘police’ this rigorously, and we also don’t provide ‘shoe-shine boys’ to clean or check shoes on entering the OT suite, so we let staff and visiting doctors determine what they want to do in regard to overshoes and providing inside footwear (they provide their own personal inside shoes; we don’t share any footwear like this).
To me, this is one of the lesser evils in an OT in regard to risks of infection transmission. If only we could just get all staff to wash their hands every time they enter and leave the OT suite I would be happier!
Cheers
MichaelMichael Wishart | Infection Control Coordinator, CICP-E
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[2019 conference email signature]Hi ACIPC Folk,
Can I please get a consensus about the use of overshoes in theatres?
We don’t ordinarily use them but sometimes visiting locums don’t come prepared and end up having to use spare shoes.
What is the OSH perspective? Do overshoes (if they are used) need to have grip patterns on the sole?
Not nice to have to use someone else’s shoes either.
Thanking you in advance, regards, Nadene
Nadene Walker
Clinical Nurse Specialist
Infection Prevention and ControlWA Country Health Service – Great Southern
Albany Health Campus
Warden Ave Albany WA 6330
PO Box 252 Albany WA 6331
P (08) 98922211 F (08) 98426037
M: 0428 086 062 (Business hours)[cid:image001.png@01D3E2D6.275113E0][cid:image002.png@01D3E2D6.275113E0][cid:image003.png@01D3E2D6.275113E0]
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