Packaging of textiles for care institutions

The storage and transport of clean linen in healthcare institutions are crucial to ensuring hygiene and preventing contamination. This SHC advisory report, which supplements advisory 9444 on linen treatment in healthcare settings, provides specific guidelines regarding the handling of clean linen in the laundry, its storage, transport to the healthcare institution, central storage within the institution, transport to the point of use, and storage within the care unit. These recommendations take into account hygiene, cost-efficiency, and sustainability considerations.