Do Air Purifiers Help with Dust?

When you’re around people in vulnerable populations, it is essential to take proper precautions to ensure that the air that they are breathing is as clean as possible. If you’re working at a medical facility, you probably have several priorities, but the most important is the health and safety of your patients. 

A quality air purifier system can not only help with dust containment but keep everyone in your facility healthy, even as you make improvements to your building or repairs to your facility.

What Will Happen if You Don’t Use Air Purifiers for Dust?

Inevitably dust is going to be entering the air, as any construction is performed. When performing construction and renovations, especially on your building’s ceiling, dust containment must be a key priority in preventing healthcare-associated infections.

The effects of dust are proven to be extremely negative, including lung damage and, in extreme cases for a vulnerable population, even death. 

Dust is just one of the causes of HAIs. Along with hand and respiratory hygiene, it is essential to have a high level of environmental hygiene as well.

Dust containment equipment should be a major part of your facility's approach, especially during times of construction and maintenance.

How Can You Get Rid of Dust in the Air?

When you choose a high-quality air purifier system, this will ensure that the effects of dust will be minimized. Even if you think you are doing a good job cleaning up your dust, after construction is performed in your hospital, it is likely that you are not cleaning up the entirety of the dust that remains. Additionally, you cannot stop dust from lingering in the air, no matter what you do. This means that after construction, dust lingers on the floor, on furniture and supplies, and in the air. 

One of the only ways to ensure that you actually don’t have any additional health problems in your hospital, because of dust, is to make sure that dust never enters the air at all. 

You want to look for an air purification system that is designed to connect directly to your ceilings so that the dust stays contained in a small, enclosed cubical — not in the air and around your patients. Any construction worker should be able to perform whatever ceiling repair is necessary from the ventilated system. Once the job is done, the dust will not have had a chance to enter into the air. Instead, it will circulate through the ventilation system. 

It’s also important that doors are sealed as well through proper ventilation and dust containment systems as this can be a major area of concern where dust can find its way into the air. 

By choosing a ventilation system that also includes HEPA filtration, you will be able to have the peace of mind that not only is very little dust making its way into the air, but any that does will be filtered immediately.

Do HEPACART’s Air Purifiers Help Contain Dust?

You might be wondering: does this air purification system help with dust? Absolutely. The HEPACART Classic, and all of HEPACART’s other dust containment products, are proven to help with dust. In fact, the HEPACART Classic is equipped with a medical-grade filter, which is proven to eliminate 99.97% of dust (at .03 microns). You shouldn’t have to worry about the safety of your patients, and we know that whatever repair is necessary, needs to get done. That’s why HEPACART products were made — to help make repairs safe and easy. 

Are you looking for more ways to keep your medical facility safe and protected? Download our free resource — INFECTION CONTROL FOR FACILITIES MANAGERS: THE COMPLETE GUIDE — to learn more about maintaining a facility that prioritizes the health and safety of both patients and staff.