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Category: Cleaning & Disinfecting
What is the Best Hand Sanitizer for Schools: Key Considerations
Discover how to choose the best hand sanitizer for your school. Learn the pros and cons of alcohol vs. non-alcohol options, dispenser considerations, and tips for placement to keep students and staff healthy.
HyProtection Zone Program 101: Enhance Your Cleaning & Hygiene Protocols
Are your staff members trained on the most up-to-date best cleaning practices? Do you need help finding the most efficient means of cleaning your facility? Imperial Dade’s HyProtection Zone Program is designed to help you answer these questions and...
How to Get Rid of Fruit Flies
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that 86 million people in the US get sick from foodborne illnesses yearly. Most people know that mishandling and improper food storage can spread foodborne illnesses. Many people don’t...
How to Prevent HAIs: 3 Tips to Keep Your Patients Healthy
A 2019 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study found that healthcare-associated infections, or HAIs, affect approximately 633,000 patients annually. That’s 1 of every 31 hospitalized patients in the United States. Tens of thousands of...
How to Clean Up Bloodborne Pathogens: A Safety and Compliance Guide
Did you know that each year there are approximately three million exposures to bloodborne pathogens in the workplace? Bloodborne pathogens pose a serious risk to the health and wellness of both employees and other building occupants. This risk becomes...
How to Use a Dilution Control System in 4 Easy Steps
Are you looking for a way to reduce product waste? Or, maybe you’re looking to reduce the hazards that come with handling concentrated chemicals? Eliminate the hassle and guesswork involved with diluting chemicals by hand, all while cutting costs...
Top Alternative to Metered Aerosol Dispensers
Metered aerosol dispensers have been the go-to odor eliminator for decades, but are they effective air fresheners? Read this article to understand the efficacy of metered aerosol air fresheners, and to learn about alternative odor control products....
How Does a Chemical Management System Increase Workplace Safety?
In 2021, over 400,000 workplace injuries were caused by exposure to harmful chemicals. This figure reminds us how important it is to manage chemicals properly in commercial settings. One way businesses have been curbing the number of workplace injuries...
Dilution Control 101: The Risks of Under-Dilution and Over-Dilution
A large part of facility maintenance and commercial cleaning is the everyday use of hazardous chemicals. Many people may be unaware of how dangerous working with chemicals can be because they use them daily to complete a range of mundane tasks. However,...
Help Make Routine Sanitizing and Disinfecting More Efficient with PURELL® Surface Wipes
With widespread labor shortages, surface wipes allow staff to kill germs quickly so that they can attend to other important tasks. Learn how PURELL® Surface Wipes can help make sanitizing and disinfecting surfaces easier and more efficient.
How Can Food Handlers Reduce Bacteria in Food Processing Plants?
Bacteria in food production is a huge issue with serious consequences if not handled properly. We go over what conditions promote the growth of bacteria in food processing plants and how to prevent bacterial growth in food production environments,...
Are Paper Towels More Sanitary Than Hand Dryers?
Hand dryers are a popular replacement for paper towel dispensers, but are they more sanitary? Hand dryers promote cross contamination by spreading germs from the air, to your hands, and eventually to other surfaces. Here are a few reasons why paper...
Cleaning and Disinfecting High Touch Surfaces: Proper Steps & Practices
High touch surfaces are a major contributor to the spread of germs and bacteria in the workplace. If you want to reduce illness in your facility, then you need to learn about identifying, cleaning and disinfecting high touch surfaces.
3 Ways to Avoid the Spread of Foodborne Illnesses in Your Facility
Preventing the spread of foodborne illnesses, like Salmonella, Listeria, and E. Coli, is important to maintaining the health and safety of your customers. Read this article to learn three practices your food processing facility can use to avoid spreading...
What is Terminal Cleaning? 11 Steps to Terminal Cleaning of Inpatient Areas
As patients in your facility are discharged or transferred out of a room, the surfaces in the room will need to be cleaned and disinfected to remove any potentially infectious germs. During terminal cleaning, your staff will need to complete extra...
8 Steps to Clean and Disinfect Occupied Patient Rooms in your Healthcare Facility
You’re likely too familiar with how challenging it can be to clean an occupied patient room. However, routine cleaning and disinfecting is critical to reducing the spread of healthcare-associated infections (HAIs).
Electrostatic Disinfection: 3 Ways to Get The Most Out of Your Sprayer
As the need for frequent disinfection grows, high volume disinfection is becoming increasingly popular. The most popular and effective high-volume disinfection method is electrostatic technology. Electrostatic sprayer technology applies an electric...
Best Practices For Restroom Disinfection: 5 Tips For Maximum Efficacy
The surfaces in your commercial restroom are covered with illness-causing germs and bacteria. To keep your occupants safe against an outbreak, it’s imperative that your cleaning team frequently and thoroughly cleans and disinfects the restroom. With...
What Are The Types of Commercial Disinfectants? Pros and Cons [VIDEO]
Illness-causing germs, also known as pathogens, are easily spread throughout your facility. Routine disinfection is the most effective way to minimize the spread of germs.
4 Benefits of Pre-Moistened Disinfecting Wipes
Illness-causing pathogens linger throughout your facility, especially on high-touch surfaces.
Food Grade Sanitizer: What are Approved Sanitizers for Food Service?
Keeping any area clean and free of illness-causing germs and bacteria is important for businesses of all types, but it is especially critical in foodservice operations and other businesses that serve food. Businesses serving food must lower the risk...
Help Prevent the Spread of COVID-19 by Cleaning, Sanitizing, & Disinfecting Touchpoints & Other Surfaces
COVID-19, commonly referred to as coronavirus, is a highly contagious respiratory disease that has been devastating countries worldwide. Its most common symptoms include dry cough, high fever, and shortness of breath. As of this posting, all 50 states...
5 Cold and Flu Prevention Tips For the Workplace [VIDEO]
The flu causes U.S. employees to miss approximately 17 million workdays a year, in turn costing employers, like you, about $7 billion annually in sick days and lost productivity. Each year the seasonal flu peaks between December and February, but preparing...
6 Steps to Reduce Foodborne Illness and Cross-Contamination
Without proper cleaning and sanitization procedures, foodservice operators are putting their customers at increased risk of foodborne illness. A food poisoning outbreak will negatively affect customer’s perception and satisfaction with your business,...
What is the Difference Between Cleaning and Disinfecting?
It doesn’t matter if you are maintaining a school, hospital, office, or any other facility – cleaning and disinfecting is an important part of your maintenance routine. Keeping your facility clean will reduce the spread of illness and enhance...