A commercial refrigerator is an essential piece of equipment for many different businesses. From small local butchers and bakeries to large chain supermarkets and restaurants.
However, commercial refrigeration units aren’t just used to keep foods and other consumable items fresh.
Medical laboratories, hospitals, care homes, and even aestheticians require commercial refrigeration solutions – to preserve certain medicines, vaccines, patient samples, and other biological or pharmaceutical products.
Besides keeping these products at their optimum temperatures, how else can commercial refrigeration units benefit businesses in the healthcare sector?
In this post, our commercial refrigeration experts have put together four of our favourites.
1. Enhances organisation
Keeping medicines, injectables, and patient samples organised is a must.
When working in any kind of healthcare facility, you need to make sure you have quick, easy access to products as and when you need them. With a secure place to store everything, you can focus on organising your stock to enable you to do so.
Knowing where everything is, you’ll spend less time perusing with the door open and risking the internal temperature dropping.
Also, by keeping products organised, you’ll be able to keep better track of your inventory, including any losses and replacements required.
2. More accurate temperature monitoring
Many pharmaceutical products rely on precisely controlled storage environments to retain their potency or avoid contamination.
Unlike regular household fridges, most medical refrigeration units feature external monitoring devices. Not only do these devices notify you of any temperature changes, but they also allow you to check the internal temperature of your fridge without having to open the door and compromise the stock housed inside.
If this isn’t a feature included with the medical refrigerator you choose, you can always purchase and install a refrigeration monitoring system separately.
3. Increases airflow
Regular fridges typically have glass shelves that can block air circulation, which is designed to preserve food and other perishable items, but it doesn’t help regulate the internal temperature. These conditions can compromise the quality of a range of biological products.
Medical refrigerators rely on fan-driven air circulations and air-cooling vents, and use wire shelves with perforated vents to allow effective air circulation – ensuring the contents of your medical fridge remain safe to use.
4. Prevents unauthorised access
Unlike commercial refrigeration units used in the catering and hospitality sectors, for example, as well as run-of-the-mill domestic refrigerators, medical refrigeration units are usually fitted with digital locks and alarms.
Only authorised staff members will be able to access the fridge, so you can relax knowing the contents of your fridge are safe and that they won’t fall into the wrong hands.
Contact our commercial refrigeration experts
If you think your business could benefit from investing in a commercial refrigeration unit to store pharmaceutical goods, be sure to get in touch with our team today!
With over 30 years of experience in the commercial refrigeration industry, you can trust us to provide sound advice and top product recommendations, should you need them.
To find out more about our range of commercial fridges, or to find out more about how pharmaceutical and healthcare businesses can benefit from a commercial fridge, call 0121 544 0555 or send your enquiry by email to sales@jamrefrigeration.co.uk and we’ll be in touch with you soon!
