Hygiene industry – now valued more than ever?

The hygiene industry plays an important, yet often overlooked, role in keeping both private & public spaces clean, safe and sanitized for use. Seen as an essential industry in many if not all countries around the world, it keeps our healthcare facilities especially safe, protecting both healthcare workers and patients. A common question keeps popping up in many people’s heads: Where would we be during the Covid-19 crisis without the hygiene industry?

Vectair have been proudly serving the UK’s National Health Service with soap deliveries to the frontline via the newly built Nightingale Hospital at Excel in London. This purpose built hospital was built in just 9 days and the NHS Nightingale in east London’s ExCel centre can hold as many as 4000 patients and is the first of the UK Government’s emergency field hospitals to treat people with coronavirus. The UK’s NHS is currently having to use high quantities of equipment to protect staff and combat the virus as it spreads.

We also know in North America, that cleaning workers on the frontline, jan/san distributors and their delivery truck drivers are all working long hours to ensure essential and vital products get to the frontline and to those facilities that need them the most.

We know of global supply chains being impacted due to local government enforced lockdowns and it is important that within the hygiene industry especially, supply chains work together in order to get the vital supplies to the right facilities at the right time. Some cleaning & hygiene products are more difficult to supply than others just because of the sheer global demand, such as hand sanitizer and soap.

As the weeks go by and we get further into the pandemic, it is likely that the hygiene industry no longer becomes an overlooked sector but one that’s vital for everyone.