Delivering positive patient experiences can breathe new life into healthcare spaces. As much as creating effective healthcare space for patients, designing comfortable cafeteria furniture is key to improving patient, staff and family satisfaction. Cafeteria furniture holds a unique place in the daily lives of healthcare professionals and patient recovery. A well-furnished cafeteria dining table and cafe chairs serve as bustling hubs for staff interaction and relaxation for patients' relatives. Does your hospital have inviting, functional, and vibrant dining spaces with canteen tables & chairs that take the overall well-being and quality of the hospital services to the next level? If not, it is time to switch to cafeteria tables and chairs that enhance patient and family member satisfaction ratings. Let us look at the role of proper furniture in healthcare cafeterias and their enormous benefits to the hospital, patients and healthcare professionals.
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Clean and crisp cafe designs can complement healthful eating, encourage good behaviours in staff/ community members and improve patient experience. Visitors spend multiple days at a facility where a loved one is undergoing treatment. Only a fine dining establishment with a club armchair and a functional canteen table can relax the visitors/family members, offer comfort and inspire patients/ visitors. Also, an extended dining area to an outdoor patio can provide a place for community socialisation. Cafeteria chairs and canteen tables in several sizes, heights and materials with integrated power units can accommodate all visitors, allowing them to charge their mobile and relax. Comfortable seating at a cafeteria table and plastic cafeteria chairs can offer an inviting atmosphere that encourages stress relief, serving as a respite from the treatment tension.
Often, the dining area serves as the focal point of the entire hospital, where patient families assess the healthcare services, quality and wellness. An influential healthcare design with functional cafeteria tables and chairs can elevate the aesthetics while ensuring everyone is comfortable, regardless of their body type, mobility issues or desire for community or solitude.
Quality hospital food in well-crafted dining areas extends beyond patients to their families and hospital employees. A nutrition-rich food from a hygienic cafe area can maximise patient outcomes and aid in faster recovery. The freshness, quality, and safety of hospital food at the right temperature and humidity levels can elevate the nutritional value of everyday patient food.
Those outdated canteen tables and cafeteria chairs lead patients and families to believe the hospital is outdated without good facilities. The hospital cafe area should incorporate comfortable plastic chairs/canteen tables and ensure hospitality-inspired spaces cater to patient/staff needs.
The traditional lengthy serving line makes patrons wander, often throwing a wrench in circulation without clear entry/exit points. Today's advanced healthcare design should accommodate minimalistic canteen tables & chairs that are space-efficient yet offer optimal flow. Cafeteria seating should be hassle-free with an unambiguous payment or ordering system to enable easy access to administrative, clinical, kitchen staff and the patient's family.
A strategic cafeteria seating with sufficient stools, a large cafeteria table, a club chair, smaller booths, or outdoor zones can make serving, dining, and relaxing effortless. Installing modular systems and a movable cafeteria dining table or lightweight plastic chair can enable easy cleaning and maintenance, offering a hygienic healthcare cafe area. The flow of spaces, ceiling planes, wall boundaries, and seating heights should complement the hospital layout while controlling traffic flow and comfort. A booth-type seating arrangement can take care of family privacy, while unfixed cafe chairs and tables in small and large clusters can support hospital staff. A separate dining table area for doctors, hospital benefactors, foreign dignitaries, or staff with educational programs and presentations can engage them during lunch breaks, promoting collaboration.
Dining area furnishings in healthcare with sculptured chairs, decorative lighting, and high-gloss wall tiles in bold colours or patterned resin panels can exude elegance while ensuring comfort. If you want a budget-friendly dining table area, resort to simple canteen tables and plastic cafeteria chairs that stand tall on durability and easy maintenance. Make sure the healthcare cafe area adds visual interest and a clean look with smooth surfaces. Playing with colours and natural materials that mimic hospital brand values can add to the richness and elevated comfort. A balance of hard and soft flooring surfaces can create boundaries between seating clusters and service areas. They can help differentiate high-traffic areas while keeping dirt and germs at bay.
Lighting can boost the aesthetics of healthcare dining spaces while offering a welcoming environment for patient families and staff. Depending on the healthcare setting and budget, experiment with downlights, rope lights, decorative pendants, wall washers, or indirect accent lights and set the desired tone. Direct/indirect LED fixtures can amp up the ambience and lighten the mood in the hospital dining table area.
Canteen tables & chairs are undoubtedly the focal point of any healthcare dining area, but only a clever choice can make them beneficial. Let us look at the essential factors to look for while choosing the cafeteria furniture essentials below:
When shopping online or offline, look for the safety of healthcare furniture. Assess the patient/staff requirements, safe weight capacity, safe egress, and padded support or armrests to create a healing dining table area. The easy-to-grip cafe chairs can prevent accidental falls and offer optimum comfort. Incorporate a hygienic cafeteria table and a plastic chair that are patient and staff-friendly to ensure maximum safety and stop the spread of infection. Opt for seating with smooth edges to offer greater comfort for hospital visitors and staff.
Opt for easy maintenance tables and cafe chairs to keep the dining area impeccably clean and sanitized. Buy a plastic chair that is easy to clean every day and limits bacteria growth.
A large clean-out cafeteria space can prevent potentially harmful or bacteria-filled objects from being deposited between the seat and the back of the chair. Select desks, tables, and cabinetry that can complement cleaning and the easy removal of unexpected spills.
Always go for durable and scratch-resistant cafe furniture, be it a plastic chair or a metal table. Dining area furniture should be able to withstand regular wear and tear.
A cold and inviting dining space is the last thing patient families expect from the healthcare facility. Incorporate warm, inviting tones in your wall paint and furniture rather than just decking out the space with white-on-white walls. A welcoming vibe can improve staff morale, elevate productivity levels and improve visitor satisfaction.
Are you having trouble deciding on which chairs to specify for your wet lab, cleanroom, electronics manufacturing factory, or industrial facility?
We take a look at the important details that you need to consider for these demanding environments – from choosing the right materials that can resist chemical spills to ergonomic considerations that keep your employees healthy and fit while on the job.
Wet labs create an exceptionally demanding physical environment.
Accidental chemical spills are always a risk, so you need to choose your chair specifications carefully.
Ordinary fabric upholstery is usually a poor choice, due to their inability to resist chemical exposure without staining; also, ordinary upholstery fabrics can absorb and retain unpleasant chemical odors, especially at the seams.
Instead, take a look at fully enclosed urethane seating designs with minimal seams, which make them easier to clean and maintain, as well as providing greater resistant to multiple chemical exposures.
(If you have a less demanding wet lab application, bleach-cleanable fabrics that resist stains may be sufficient. Speak with your Formaspace Design Consultant to review your options.)
Because the majority of wet lab designs are designed with countertop height work surfaces, you’ll need to select chairs that incorporate durable foot rings or platform-style footrests — to prevent ‘dangling feet’ that can cause unnecessary worker fatigue. Footrests and platforms made from metal are long-lasting and may be more resistant to the demands of especially harsh wet lab environments compared to conventional “composite” ones, e.g. those made from molded plastic. (Ask your Formaspace Design Consultant for a specific recommendation for your application.)
Finally, to facilitate lab workers shifting from one area of the lab to another, you’ll want to specify heavy-duty hard floor casters.
Providing suitable seating for cleanroom environments is a challenge.
Ordinary furniture seating systems are out of the question — as their friable upholstery fabrics and hard-to-clean surfaces can generate and collect dust particles.
What to do?
Well, if your cleanroom application is rated between Class 100,000 (ISO 8) and Class 100 (ISO 5)*n there is now a solution: seating systems that are specially designed for high-performance cleanroom operations.
*Class 100 (ISO 5) cleanroom environments can’t have more than 100 particles of size 0.5 um or greater per cubic foot of conditioned air. For more information, see our previous article on what architects need to know about cleanroom design.
How can these comfortable chairs, with their 3-Function adjustable seating mechanisms, comply with the demands of Class 100 (ISO 5) cleanroom environments? The answer lies in their unique, smooth, sealed plastic seating surfaces that are easy to wipe down, while at the same time designed to prevent collection or shedding of particulates into the ambient air.
If your cleanroom application is even more demanding — e.g. Class 10 (ISO 4) or Class 1 (ISO 3) environments — Formaspace can custom manufacture metal seating solutions, such as gowning benches that are tailored to your unique cleanroom needs.
Many of Formaspace’s industrial customers, such as Dell Computer, work with delicate electronic devices that can be catastrophically damaged by unintentional electrostatic discharge.
That’s why such a wide variety of our Formaspace industrial clients — including electronics manufacturing and assembly operations, electronics testing and repair labs, and tech labs that handle and configure expensive servers — take advantage of our ESD (Electrostatic Dissipative) furniture configurations, which have ESD work surfaces built into the furniture — to provide a robust, practical solution for avoiding accidental electronic static discharge.
Of course, all the ESD protections in the world mean nothing if the chairs you use aren’t designed to prevent accidental static discharge as well.
It’s easy to check if the seating used in your facility has dissipative protection features. The most common telltale sign is a drag chain mounted underneath that allows static discharge to your dissipative floor. (Another alternative method used is small metal clips on one or more of the chair casters that ground the chair to the dissipative floor.)
But there is more to the story than a drag chain or caster clip. Properly designed chairs used in ESD environments are designed from the ground up (pardon the pun) to absorb and redistribute the human body’s natural tendency to accumulate static electricity.
It’s also important to specify chairs that have been completely assembled and individually tested at the factory to be assured of complete ESD protection — buying seating that requires on-site assembly without sophisticated testing can lead trouble down the line, so to speak.
Another purchasing consideration is the ergonomic comfort of your employees, who typically work long hours on highly detailed, highly-precise tasks that require intense concentration. Investing in comfortable seating will help reduce discomfort and help prevent injuries — an important consideration, given that the average preventable injury can cost employers more than $100,000 per incident.
Industrial applications — from factory assembly lines to packing stations at distribution centers — are tough environments where employees work long hours, often with three shifts operating 24×7.
That’s where industrial furniture from Formaspace excels.
Industrial seating is no different.
It’s critical to specify chairs that are built tough — from the get-go.
Selecting the right upholstery surface is critical. Instead of traditional cloth fabric, consider specifying tough yet supple surfaces — such as molded urethane or vinyl upholstery — that resist tearing (when nicked with a box cutter, for example) and are easy to clean when exposed to dust and dirt, as well as common industrial spills, including oils and lubricants.
Ergonomics are also important to consider. Workers in industrial settings put in long hours, and they need good support to reduce back pain and other injuries caused by repetitive strains on the job. Chairs that can be easily adjusted to fit different-sized workers are a must, as are chairs that can accommodate different height work-surfaces — including height-adjustable ones.
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It’s important to provide a place for workers to rest their arms, so if they are not working exclusively at a desk-like environment, you should specify ergonomic armrests.
Taller workstations mean taller seating, so employees will need a comfortable place to rest their feet — with suitable foot rings or built-in platforms at the base of the chair.
Finally, mobility is important for many facilities. If you choose casters, select heavy-duty ones to ensure a secure footing for employees when seated while offering the flexibility of being able to move the chair around easily from task location to task location.
At the end of the day, every work environment is different, and each employee will have different needs. Be sure to take into account the entire spectrum of requirements when making your final specifications for seating.
“Formaspace can help you find the right solution for all your industrial furniture needs – including seating,” says Corey Hutchins, Director of Sales at Formaspace. “By working with a single vendor that happens to be one of the leading American manufacturers of industrial furniture, you can simplify your project planning with a single point of contact. And we can provide long-lasting solutions that will make your employees more productive for many, many years to come.”
Formaspace is proud to count so many forward-thinking companies among our client list, including Amazon, Ford Motor Company, SpaceX, Oculus, Toyota, Busch, Yeti, Apple, Google, Twitter, and Capital One.
Formaspace is here to help make your project a success. Your Formaspace Design Consultant is just a call away to help you find the best product to meet your unique needs.
Are you having trouble deciding on which chairs to specify for your wet lab, cleanroom, electronics manufacturing factory, or industrial facility?
We take a look at the important details that you need to consider for these demanding environments – from choosing the right materials that can resist chemical spills to ergonomic considerations that keep your employees healthy and fit while on the job.
Wet labs create an exceptionally demanding physical environment.
Accidental chemical spills are always a risk, so you need to choose your chair specifications carefully.
Ordinary fabric upholstery is usually a poor choice, due to their inability to resist chemical exposure without staining; also, ordinary upholstery fabrics can absorb and retain unpleasant chemical odors, especially at the seams.
Instead, take a look at fully enclosed urethane seating designs with minimal seams, which make them easier to clean and maintain, as well as providing greater resistant to multiple chemical exposures.
(If you have a less demanding wet lab application, bleach-cleanable fabrics that resist stains may be sufficient. Speak with your Formaspace Design Consultant to review your options.)
Because the majority of wet lab designs are designed with countertop height work surfaces, you’ll need to select chairs that incorporate durable foot rings or platform-style footrests — to prevent ‘dangling feet’ that can cause unnecessary worker fatigue. Footrests and platforms made from metal are long-lasting and may be more resistant to the demands of especially harsh wet lab environments compared to conventional “composite” ones, e.g. those made from molded plastic. (Ask your Formaspace Design Consultant for a specific recommendation for your application.)
Finally, to facilitate lab workers shifting from one area of the lab to another, you’ll want to specify heavy-duty hard floor casters.
Providing suitable seating for cleanroom environments is a challenge.
Ordinary furniture seating systems are out of the question — as their friable upholstery fabrics and hard-to-clean surfaces can generate and collect dust particles.
What to do?
Well, if your cleanroom application is rated between Class 100,000 (ISO 8) and Class 100 (ISO 5)*n there is now a solution: seating systems that are specially designed for high-performance cleanroom operations.
*Class 100 (ISO 5) cleanroom environments can’t have more than 100 particles of size 0.5 um or greater per cubic foot of conditioned air. For more information, see our previous article on what architects need to know about cleanroom design.
How can these comfortable chairs, with their 3-Function adjustable seating mechanisms, comply with the demands of Class 100 (ISO 5) cleanroom environments? The answer lies in their unique, smooth, sealed plastic seating surfaces that are easy to wipe down, while at the same time designed to prevent collection or shedding of particulates into the ambient air.
If your cleanroom application is even more demanding — e.g. Class 10 (ISO 4) or Class 1 (ISO 3) environments — Formaspace can custom manufacture metal seating solutions, such as gowning benches that are tailored to your unique cleanroom needs.
Many of Formaspace’s industrial customers, such as Dell Computer, work with delicate electronic devices that can be catastrophically damaged by unintentional electrostatic discharge.
That’s why such a wide variety of our Formaspace industrial clients — including electronics manufacturing and assembly operations, electronics testing and repair labs, and tech labs that handle and configure expensive servers — take advantage of our ESD (Electrostatic Dissipative) furniture configurations, which have ESD work surfaces built into the furniture — to provide a robust, practical solution for avoiding accidental electronic static discharge.
Of course, all the ESD protections in the world mean nothing if the chairs you use aren’t designed to prevent accidental static discharge as well.
It’s easy to check if the seating used in your facility has dissipative protection features. The most common telltale sign is a drag chain mounted underneath that allows static discharge to your dissipative floor. (Another alternative method used is small metal clips on one or more of the chair casters that ground the chair to the dissipative floor.)
But there is more to the story than a drag chain or caster clip. Properly designed chairs used in ESD environments are designed from the ground up (pardon the pun) to absorb and redistribute the human body’s natural tendency to accumulate static electricity.
It’s also important to specify chairs that have been completely assembled and individually tested at the factory to be assured of complete ESD protection — buying seating that requires on-site assembly without sophisticated testing can lead trouble down the line, so to speak.
Another purchasing consideration is the ergonomic comfort of your employees, who typically work long hours on highly detailed, highly-precise tasks that require intense concentration. Investing in comfortable seating will help reduce discomfort and help prevent injuries — an important consideration, given that the average preventable injury can cost employers more than $100,000 per incident.
Industrial applications — from factory assembly lines to packing stations at distribution centers — are tough environments where employees work long hours, often with three shifts operating 24×7.
That’s where industrial furniture from Formaspace excels.
Industrial seating is no different.
It’s critical to specify chairs that are built tough — from the get-go.
Selecting the right upholstery surface is critical. Instead of traditional cloth fabric, consider specifying tough yet supple surfaces — such as molded urethane or vinyl upholstery — that resist tearing (when nicked with a box cutter, for example) and are easy to clean when exposed to dust and dirt, as well as common industrial spills, including oils and lubricants.
Ergonomics are also important to consider. Workers in industrial settings put in long hours, and they need good support to reduce back pain and other injuries caused by repetitive strains on the job. Chairs that can be easily adjusted to fit different-sized workers are a must, as are chairs that can accommodate different height work-surfaces — including height-adjustable ones.
It’s important to provide a place for workers to rest their arms, so if they are not working exclusively at a desk-like environment, you should specify ergonomic armrests.
Taller workstations mean taller seating, so employees will need a comfortable place to rest their feet — with suitable foot rings or built-in platforms at the base of the chair.
Finally, mobility is important for many facilities. If you choose casters, select heavy-duty ones to ensure a secure footing for employees when seated while offering the flexibility of being able to move the chair around easily from task location to task location.
At the end of the day, every work environment is different, and each employee will have different needs. Be sure to take into account the entire spectrum of requirements when making your final specifications for seating.
“Formaspace can help you find the right solution for all your industrial furniture needs – including seating,” says Corey Hutchins, Director of Sales at Formaspace. “By working with a single vendor that happens to be one of the leading American manufacturers of industrial furniture, you can simplify your project planning with a single point of contact. And we can provide long-lasting solutions that will make your employees more productive for many, many years to come.”
Formaspace is proud to count so many forward-thinking companies among our client list, including Amazon, Ford Motor Company, SpaceX, Oculus, Toyota, Busch, Yeti, Apple, Google, Twitter, and Capital One.
Formaspace is here to help make your project a success. Your Formaspace Design Consultant is just a call away to help you find the best product to meet your unique needs.
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