Step Exhibitions
Hygipod Tough by Trovex
Nominee Information
Trovex has a history of innovation in the healthcare space. Introducing the original Hygipod IPS to acute healthcare providers around 10 years ago, the system has now been utilised by over 50% of NHS Trusts. The original Hygipod is a PVC encapsulated integrated plumbing system that is delivered to site prefabricated, speeding up installation whilst meeting infection control requirements. More info on the original here www.trovex.com/hygipod
Since the release of the original Hygipod, we have continued to work with acute healthcare professionals refining the product whilst investigating other areas of public and private healthcare that face similar challenges. One area was in mental healthcare. This area presents a number of unique challenges to ensure patient and staff safety – challenges the judges are all too familiar with. For low secure-medium secure mental healthcare facilities we launched the Hygipod Safe which we have shown at Design in Mental Health for a number of years, and which has been successfully utilised by a number of NHS Trusts. more info at www.trovex.com/hygipodsafe
The product we would like to enter for this award, is the Hygipod Tough, a new concept product that is an evolution of the Hygipod IPS and Hygipod Safe with enhanced robustness and strength. The product is an integrated plumbing system that can be used to feature a wash hand basin, WC, shower, bath etc and contains all of the required plumbing and waste facilities. These items need to be secure, and all pipework, fittings and fixtures safely hidden to prevent harm or weaponisation.
The Hygipod Tough is a highly secure protective platform that provides a robust fixing surface for such items and has been reinforced substantially to prevent light-medium attacks gaining access or removing items and also withstand hardcore attack for a long enough period for staff intervention to take place. This unit also comes to site prefabricated and has all of the benefits of Hygipod IPS / Safe but with anti-ligature and enhanced toughness. Please see the testing video here – this is strictly not to be reproduced or distributed.
