The importance of using medical castors

Time can often be precious in a place where people go to when they need medical help. By adding high-quality medical castors to your equipment and furniture, you can bring almost everything you need to the patient without putting them in danger. 

Time can often be precious in a place where people go to when they need medical help. By adding high-quality medical castors to your equipment and furniture, you can bring almost everything you need to the patient without putting them in danger.

Medical castors are specially designed to withstand a range of industrial and ergonomic challenges, including: varied temperatures, extensive cleaning, friction, chemicals, heavy use and general wear and tear.

In medical environments, they are often used on:
●  Patient beds and gurneys
●  Wheelchairs
●  Drawers, storage and dispensaries
●  MRI scanners
●  X-ray machines
●  Food carts and much more.

The anatomy of a medical castor
Years of research and experience has gone into making medical castors the perfect choice for every job, with consideration put on the following four points:

Manoeuvrability - High quality casters ensure that equipment and furniture moves easily, safely and smoothly, no matter the size or weight of the object or condition of the flooring.

Durability – Medical castors come in a wide range of sizes and strengths depending on the equipment or furniture they are being used for. Non-slip castors and non-marking castor wheels also mean you avoid skidding and damaging flooring.

Hygiene – Medical castors are designed to be tough and hard wearing, while our range of stainless steel medical castors can be hosed and disinfected along with everything else, without worry of rust or degradation.

Safety – Having medical castors for your equipment and furniture means less lifting, which reduces injuries in the workplace. In addition to this, safety features which have been manufactured into the design of medical castors include:
●  Sizes, strengths and heights to suit the object the wheels are supporting
●  Strong braked castor options to keep portable equipment stationary when needed
●  Sealed bearings and dust guards prevent the wheels catching or bacteria building up
●  Specialised antistatic castors for use on electronic equipment, such as a defibrillator

Ross Handling source and supply a wide variety of medical castors to suit every application and ensure that you get the best possible solution for you and your business. Call our expert sales team today on 0116 276 4987, or email [email protected], to get your medical castors rolling.