With years of experience and expertise in healthcare, the Johnstone’s specification team is well qualified to recommend and provide tailored decorative solutions for all sectors of healthcare, including hospitals, GP surgeries, and care homes.
Colour for Wellbeing
We all know that hospital surroundings play a major part in a patient’s recuperation and well-being. However healthcare environments are also places of work and are populated by a steady stream of visitors. Therefore the use and choice of colour has to appeal to a wide range of people and suit a variety of surroundings.
Colour for Access
Using colour is also essential in public and commercial buildings to ensure that the partially sighted can gain access and easily navigate with minimal obstacles. The buildings regulations Approved Document M provides guidance in line with the Disability Discrimination Act and highlights the need for critical surfaces to be highlighted in colours and shades that have contrasting percentage points of light reflectance value (LRV).
Product Suitability
Along with colour, selecting the right decorative products for medical buildings is essential. A key driver in this process is ensuring that products can withstand the rigorous cleaning regimes expected in today’s society. Products should be highly durable, tough and washable.
Selecting some of today’s high performance specialist coatings can also contribute towards health and safety requirements. Johnstone’s Microbarr Anti Bacterial Coatings are proven to help in the fight against infections caused by harmful bacteria. Johnstone’s Microbarr is bactericidal against nearly 150 strains of bacteria and is therefore a useful tool when used as part of the solution and in conjunction with cleaning regimes.
In circulation and communal areas, consideration should be given to the various legislations such as the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 and Part 3 of the Fire Scotland Act (October 2006). Johnstone’s Flame Retardent coatings are designed to delay the spread of flame thus aid the safe escape of occupants in the event of a fire.
The Johnstone’s range of premium paints includes products suitable for surfaces in the HTM 56 building components series.
All Johnstone’s products are present within the NHS PASA national framework agreement. Information can be found on NHS e-Cat under contract reference CM/FMM/03/877/3.
Technical and Colour Advice from Johnstone’s
The healthcare section of our website is designed to provide you with some immediate guidance on decoration for healthcare environments. It highlights key considerations for specific situations, recommends suitable products for different surfaces, environments and suggests colour schemes to create the right environment.
If you would like more help and advice or a tailored approach for your project, our dedicated specification team is here to help. They can provide an initial on-site consultation or work from plans and project briefs. Following their investigations they can provide a bespoke written specification and colour scheme document incorporating suggestions from the Johnstone’s palette of 15,000 colours.
Call 01924 354156 to speak with our Technical Specification Consultants.
Or click here to download our brochure "Paint Solutions for Healthcare".