[Case study]: 37 sanitisable silicone keyboards and mice for a hospital in Castile and Leon

If you need ultra-hygienic, completely waterproof and 100% sanitisable keyboards,
Do not be stubborn to use hard, dirty plastic keyboards, which have nothing to do with the clean and sterilized environment in which you will have to insert them...

... Use silicone keyboards instead!

This is the choice made by a Spanish hospital, which has purchased 37 silicone keyboards and mice.

Spanish hospital requirements: hygienic and sanitisable keyboards  

Hygienic keyboards and mice, completely sterilizable and hygienizable: this was the requirement of the hospital in Castilla y León.

The hardware dealer in charge of supplying the hospital has chosen 37 of our keyboards and 37 silicone mice, perfectly hygienizable and sterilisable - even with aggressive detergents.

Plastic keyboards: why are they not suitable for a sanitary environment?

In a healthcare facility (such as a hospital, for example), hygiene, cleaning and sterilization are key words that must necessarily concern all work environments and devices: even hardware, such as mice and keyboards.

Yes, because as strange as it may seem...

The dirt is everywhere: even under the keys of those dirty plastic keyboards that are usually used in all environments, without distinction.

If you are an IT manager, in charge of finding computer devices for your company, or you are a hardware dealer... these things you surely already know.

You know that a sanitary environment has precise rules of hygiene, safety, cleanliness... You can’t run the risk of soiling your environment, contaminating it and putting in serious danger the health of your patients... right?

But that’s exactly what will happen if you introduce plastic keyboards into your healthcare or medical environment.

Look at this...

Here’s what you can find, under the keys of the "common" plastic keyboards, which are usually used in every environment (even the sanitary one).

Dirt, grime, dust, germs and bacteria lurking everywhere.

And once they’re in there, you don’t get them out.

Because there is a particularity of plastic keyboards that, perhaps, no one tells you: they are not hygienizable.
They are not washable.

You can’t clean them, no way.

The only possible way would be to put you there, every morning, before daily use, to pull off button by button and clean below...

... Taking great care not to spread detergent liquid or water all over the keyboard, of course: because, being not waterproof, if you wet a plastic keyboard, you break it. And you have to throw it away, after.

Adding an extra budget, which you could easily avoid. 

Quali sono le conseguenze di usare tastiere in plastica in un ambiente sanitario?

Breaking your hardware devices is not the only consequence you will encounter if you continue to use those dirty plastic keyboards for your healthcare environment.

In fact...

Continued use of these keyboards in a medical environment will bring you these consequences:

1.  Dirt, contamination of the sanitary environment: such an environment requires cleaning, sterilization, continuous and thorough hygiene. If you put in a similar environment of devices that are dirty and filthy and that you can not wash in any way... you are contaminating the surrounding environment. 
   
2. Put your patients' health at serious risk: these dirty, unhygienic keyboards are used by healthcare professionals all the time.
   Operators who must always wear gloves, necessarily, without ever taking them off: and with the same gloves touch those dirty keyboards and also go to touch patients hospitalized or to be visited.
   This does not exactly give an image of cleanliness and hygiene... right?
   
   
3. You waste a lot of time cleaning a computer tool that can neither be hygienized nor cleaned thoroughly.
   The only way to clean, a minimum, these keyboards is to wrap them in cellophane every evening, at the end of shift and every morning remove the film to be able to use. Only this can act as a "sanitizer".
   But... understand that this represents a huge expenditure of energy for you (or for those who have to take care of the "cleaning" of these devices).

So once we’ve listed the consequences you will face by introducing plastic keyboards into your healthcare environment, the question that may arise in your mind now is...

"What are the most suitable keyboards to be inserted in a health environment?"

Silicone keyboards and mice: why our customer chose them 

When the Spanish hardware dealer contacted us to ask for keyboards and mice that were suitable for the hospital, we offered our silicone keyboards, knowing that they perfectly reflected the standards required by the health facility.

In fact, the primary requirement of the dealer was to ensure that the hospital had keyboards and mice that were completely hygienic and waterproof.

Needs for which, the silicone keyboards proved perfect.

As for the keyboards, the model chosen is the one you see here in the photo: the TS308.

Keyboards with numeric keypad and touchpad, the most used.
The colour chosen is white, which is typical of sanitary environments: white recalls hygiene and sterilization.
The layout, of course, is customized in Spanish language.

See here the TS308 keyboard model

Other customization that has been done concerns the mouse.

What was the customization, in this case?

37 Silicone mice with USB, of reduced size, compared to those we have in our catalog.
Here you can see the mouse model we have in our catalog.

See the model of silicone mouse

As you can see, the mouse on our site is much larger: but the customer asked us for a smaller mouse and we have immediately satisfied!

Here it is:

Why did the dealer choose Tastiere Industriali?

With Tastiere Industriali you have a supplier of keyboards and mice that is entirely focused on the sale of industrial keyboards, mice and keypads.

We do not deal with generic hardware, but we have decided to focus only on these devices, so that we can guarantee you a personalized technical advice, by technicians who are entirely focused on this.

You will have the possibility of having a free pre and post sales consultation.
You will be contacted by one of our technicians, who will listen to your needs and allow you to understand which industrial device is the most suitable for your work sector.

After that, you can also request a free 15-day trial and test the keyboards and mice you choose directly in your production environment.

In addition, you will have a direct channel with us: we have activated a chat service on our site, which is always active, 24 hours a day.

This means that if you need to contact us, this chat will answer you a human in the flesh (not a bot), who will give you all the assistance you will need, always

Contact us and request a free consultation