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White Paper Features
Cleaning to Reduce the Risk of the H1N1 Flu Virus & other Disease Outbreaks
Science-based strategies for preventing disease in K-12 school systems. Includes Specific Guidelines and Recommendations
The Public Restroom - A High Risk Environment
From an environmental health scientist's point of view, a restroom, in particular a public restroom, is a high risk environment.
Green Cleaning: Kaivac's Position
The overall goal of “green cleaning” is to protect the health and safety of a building´s occupants and workers without harming the environment. This extends well beyond the realm of chemicals to include issues related to IEQ (indoor environment quality), cleanliness, safety, ergonomics and more.
Kaivac's No-Touch Cleaning® systems have been designed from the start to clean thoroughly in an environmentally responsible manner. Kaivac believes its commercial cleaning systems are among the “greenest” in existence today…Cleaner Healthier Schools Without Busting The Budget
Schools are facing significantly greater cleaning challenges with substantially fewer resources. The good news is that over the last several years some major breakthroughs in commercial cleaning products and methods have been developed that can help schools break free of this cycle…
Case Study Features
Cleaner, Safer Floors are a Priority at Riverbank Cafe
Restaurateurs most likely don't stay awake at night thinking about the performance of their cleaning equipment. But, if they knew the staggering cost of slip-and-fall accidents and lost customers, perhaps they might. Anyone who has ever worked in or around a kitchen knows the landscape is prime for injury.
April 27, 2011 will go down in the history books in many parts of the south. On that day, a tornado with winds of 200 miles per hour caused havoc in the region. Hard hit was a building owned by Catoosa County Public Schools, Ringgold, GA, which housed among other things, one of the district's 35 Kaivac machines. 'When we were allowed back into the building, we had to dig out the Kaivac [No-Touch Cleaning] machine,' says Paul Acuff, the district's Environmental Services Manager. 'We cleaned it up, dried it out, and then plugged it in.' Acuff adds he was unsure if the machine would still operate, 'but it worked fine and is still working today. I was amazed...we lost a lot of tools and equipment, but now we know the Kaivac [machine] can withstand the toughest, even violent tornados.'
Love in the Janitorial Closet... Yes, It Does Happen
University of Southern California Medical Center in East Los Angeles is one of the nation's largest — and busiest —
Reducing Cleaning Time from Three Days to Three Hours
On a regular basis, a kitchen grill in a Ohio college had to be removed to allow custodial workers to clean the tile and floor behind it.This typically was a pretty nasty job and could take one worker as long as three days to complete.Looking for ways to do the job faster, more thoroughly, and safely, the custodial manager found a way to do it without touching—using a No-Touch Cleaning® System developed by Kaivac.The No-Touch system can be compared to an indoor pressure washer. Chemicals are applied to surface areas to be cleaned. Then the same areas are rinsed, literally blasting away grime and soil. Finally, solution and soil are vacuumed up, leaving the areas ready for use almost immediately.'We were amazed at how effective it was,' says the manager. 'The tiles came out fantastic and in only three hours; that was unbelievable.'
The facility manager at a Ohio college switched from conventional cleaning—using mops, buckets, sprayers, and brooms—to a more advanced technology, No-Touch Cleaning® developed by Kaivac.With the No-Touch system, cleaning solution is applied to surfaces. The same areas are then blasted clean, and a built-in wet/vac picks up moisture and soil.The machines were first tested in the kitchens of the college and proved to be effective: floors and other surfaces came out sparkling clean.Additionally, because the machines have a built-in vacuum system, the floors were dry almost as soon as the cleaning was completed.'Sometimes our kitchen workers start their work while the floors are still wet,' says the housekeeping manager. 'There is always the danger of a slip-and-fall accident. But the Kaivac system dries the floors so quickly, this danger is eliminated. We are even trying to reduce our workers' comp insurance because of it.'
Recent News
Kaivac Named Preferred Product of Process Cleaning for Healthy Schools (PCHS)
Wednesday, January 18th 2012Reno NV - Wednesday, January 18, 2012. The Process Cleaning for Healthy Schools (PCHS) Consortium – a national non-profit organization of facility professionals dedicated to helping its members produce healthy, high performance schools while protecting jobs in budget-constrained environments –
Kaivac Donates No Touch Cleaning System to National Institute of Decontamination Specialists
Monday, January 9th 2012Kaivac, developer of the No-Touch Cleaning® system, has just donated one of its cleaning machines to the National Institute of Decontamination Specialists (NIDS). The organization, based in Piedmont, S.C., teaches students from around the world how to properly and safely clean crime scenes and perform other high-risk environmental disinfection services. NIDS is widely respected and is considered the top school in the nation, possibly the world, devoted to this type of training. Along with its campus in South Carolina, NIDS also provides training at the CRA, the Cleaning and Restoration Association's training center in Sacramento, Calif., and offers courses in Melbourne, Australia. The organization is supported by such worthy organizations as Kimberly-Clark, DuPont, 3M, and others well known to the professional cleaning industry. "NIDS has helped make crime scene and high-risk cleaning a science," says Tom Morrison, vice president of marketing for Kaivac.
Kaivac Equipment NFSI Certified
Wednesday, January 4th 2012The National Floor Safety Institute (NFSI) has awarded "High-Traction" product certification to Kaivac's No-Touch Cleaning® and OmniFlex™ Crossover Cleaning Systems, making these the only spray-and-vac and dispense-and-vac products to receive the certification. Kaivac equipment passed rigorous Phase One and Phase Two testing by NFSI under the ANSI/NFSI B101.1-2009 standard to qualify for NFSI Certification.
Winner of Kaivac’s Dirty Mop Contest Announced
Tuesday, December 6th 2011The winner of Kaivac's Dirty Mop Contest has just been announced. The winner is Alina Prodan from Chicago, IL who received 3,254 votes from Kaivac Facebook fans for her soiled mop. She will receive $500 for submitting what Kaivac Facebook fans consider the dirtiest mop entered into the contest. The contest began in October 2011 and voting began in November.
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