CLEAN HANDS SAVE LIVES!

To celebrate Global Hand Washing day last October, the Centers for Disease Control launched the “Life is Better with Clean Hands campaign”. The campaign encourages people to make handwashing a part of their everyday life and encourages parents to set this example for their kids starting at an early age.

What?? People don’t wash their hands everyday? I mean not even after…..?? A sad but very real fact.

Its such a simple thing to do - for your own health and others. Handwashing is one of the best ways to protect yourself and your family from getting sick.

Wash your hands often, especially during these key times when you are likely to get and spread germs:

• Before, during and after preparing food

• Before eating food

• Before and after caring for someone at home who is sick and vomiting or has diarrhea

• Before and after treating a cut or wound

• After using the toilet

• After changing diapers or cleaning up a child who has used the toilet

• After blowing your nose, coughing or sneezing

• After touching an animal, animal feed or animal waste

• After handling pet food or pet treats

• After touching garbage

Washing your hands is quite easy and one of the simplest ways to prevent the spread of germs. Clean hands can stop germs from spreading from one person to another, one surface to another, one location to another. Germs spread fast and far! From one person’s hands to your home, workplace, school and hospital.

These 5 steps should be followed each time you wash:

1. Wet your hands with clean running water. Turn off the water and apply soap.

2. Lather your hands by rubbing them together briskly. Lather the backs of your hands, in between your fingers and under your nails.

3. Scrub your hands for at least 20 seconds. (Hum the “Happy Birthday” jingle from start to finish 2 times)

4. Rinse your hands under running water.

5. Dry your hands using clean towel or air dry them.

What if the soap isn’t an Antibacterial Hand Cleaner? No worries. Washing with plain soap and water will handle it! Whether antibacterial or plain soap…the same steps need to be followed. If soap and water is not available you can use an alcohol-based hand sanitizer that contains at least 60% alcohol.

Sanitizers can quickly reduce the number of germs on the skin BUT they do not get rid of all germs. They may not be as effective if hands are visibly dirty or greasy. And sanitizers may not remove harmful chemicals such as pesticides and heavy metals.

IF SOAP AND WATER IS AVAILABLE THIS IS YOUR LINE OF FIRST DEFENSE

PROPER DISINFECTING TECHNIQUES TO REDUCE STUDENT & EMPLOYEE ABSENTEEISM

Employees average 7.7 sick days per year, costing the US 2.25 billion dollars per year. Unplanned absences cause a 54% decrease in worker productivity and a 39% drop in customer service. Customers prefer cleanliness. 94% of shoppers will avoid a business with a dirty restroom. Consumers rank cleanliness as the number 1 most important factor in choosing where to shop and eat.

Schools suffer 60 million lost days due to Norovirus and the flu alone. Students miss an average of 4.5 days decreasing federal funds by at least 2.5% per year. Absent teachers cost schools 25 billion annually with another 4 billion for substitutes. And that is if they are available. Many schools in the US have had to close down at various times because the combination of poor student turn out due to illness and and a severe shortage of healthy teachers and subs!

Disinfectants do an excellent job when used properly. It’s been covered before but I will stress again: Proper dilution and following label directions for dwell time. Give the disinfectant time to do a thorough job. Different bacteria and viruses can take different lengths of time to die.

Where to apply your disinfectant? The obvious answers, floors, walls, counters, tables, sinks, commodes and urinals…are pretty well taken care of. It’s the “other” areas we don’t think about that cause a spike in illness. We need to think about your “high touch” areas. The surfaces people touch often. Examples: Door knobs, soap dispensers, paper towel dispensers, toilet & urinal flush valves, water fountains, athletic equipments, mats, elevator buttons, school buses, lockers, vending machines, microwave and refrigerator door handles, sink faucet, cafeteria trays, the tray lines themselves. We can mop down our floors every day but if we aren’t attacking the high touch surfaces we are leaving too many opportunities for a bacterial and viral explosion!

A water fountain has 2.7 million bacteria per sq. inch. A cafeteria tray has 33,800 per sq. inch. A toilet seat has 3200. Hate to think that you are better off licking a toilet seat than drinking from a water fountain!

Please contact us for information on our excellent line of disinfectants and sanitizers! We also have application tools to save you time and money and to get the job done much more thoroughly.

WE HAVE IT! And it's ELECTROSTATIC!

No cords, no plugs, no unwieldy carts to pull around, no being locked into one product! We don’t often jump on trendy bandwagons, we wait to be sure it isn’t just a “flash in the pan” to find the best, the most cost effective and something easy for anyone to use. Our electrostatic sprayers make disinfection, sanitizing, odor control, and pest control easy AND more thorough. Reduce cross contamination with this state of the art touch-less application method. No more spray and wipe which can move bacteria from one surface to another. Save time…our sprayer allows you to apply the chemical up to 70% faster AND at the same time uses up to 65% less chemical. Charged particles hit the surface and spread, ON, IN, UNDER and all around. This “wrapping” of the liquid gets into areas usually missed, and enables you to cover large areas in a small amount of time.

We are excited and you should be too! Who doesn’t like to save time and money? Ideal for schools, hospitals, cafeterias, fitness centers, locker rooms, kennels, buses, trains and more! . Call us today for information on hand held and back pack sprayers.

Hand Held Sprayer will cover up to 2800 sq. ft. per tank.

BackPack Sprayer can cover up to 23,000 sq. feet before refilling tank.