What type of medium do you recommend that is of the highest quality for durability, strength, and cleanliness(anti-mold, bacteria…..) to be used for shelving in a surgery room/ hospital setting. The shelving units will be wall mounted(on 3 walls) with 4 levels (approx. 2’ft. deep) in a closet that measures approximately 6″ft. X 6’Ft. Thank You for your input!!! Chipper 11/26/2003 HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!!!!!!!!
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Stainless steel. You can have it custom fabricated or buy it to standard sizes.
Stainless steel would certainly work. Whatever it is would have to hold up against various disinfectants and sterilizing methods. You might look at shelving approved for food handling. If this is in a hospital, you might want to check with the infection control folks to see what they would like.
If they're going to scrub the closet to surgical standards, definitely stainless. If it just needs to be cleanable, I think melamine on MDF would work.
I may be wrong but.
the AMA or some other Medical authority has standards that HAVE to be met for OR's
May even be in a law some where.
I know that even veterinary surgical facilities are required to meet certain standardsMr T
Do not try this at home!
I am an Experienced Professional!
You're probably right. I just wondered, since the original poster said it's in a closet, if the closet would be considered part of the OR as defined by the regulations. If it is, chalk me up as another vote for stainless. If not, there's no point in spending the customer's money to meet an irrelevant standard.
T is right - I know that even veterinary surgical facilities are required to meet certain standards....
He more than likely remembers what he saw when he was on the table during his last office visit.
Who ever invented work didn't know how to fish....
Why do you think I don't get into all these Health-care arguments?
I dont need a big Med. ins. policy.
I save a bundle by going to the Vet!!!
The overnight stays can suck though!
Those crates are eally hard to sleep in.
Especially after surgery.Mr T
Do not try this at home!
I am an Experienced Professional!
Work like a dog. Eat like a horse. Play like a rabbit.
And see your vet at least twice a year.
Who ever invented work didn't know how to fish....
I like to sleep like the bear.
Curly(sleepy)Hand Hewn Restorations Inc.
Restoring the past for the future.
Do Bears.....
A bear let it's self into the kitchen one day a while back.
Not very nicely either.
On the kitchen table was a large bowl of wax fruit.
The bear dined at it's leisure disturbing nothing else
Every last speck of that fruit was consumed.
Then it returned to the woods.
Sooooo......
,,,,,,Probably not that week.
Who ever invented work didn't know how to fish....
On the other hand, it may have sped things along a little.
Hand Hewn Restorations Inc.
Restoring the past for the future.
OK
You've got my curiosity up!
If this is a hospital setting, they have all the requirements and a catalouge or two sitting raround the maintainance dept, or they have an architect with resources to find out, like Sweets.
So are you openning up your own "stitch and sew forth" surgical franchise?
LOL
BTW, Stainles steel is my vote too.
Excellence is its own reward!