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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 Appoints Two New Regional Sales Managers
Tuesday, February 28th 2012Kaivac, developer of the No-Touch Cleaning™ and OmniFlex Crossover Cleaning systems, announces the appointment of two new Regional Sales Managers, Kevin Wehby and Aaron Humfleet. Both will be working directly with Kaivac's distributors and manufacturers' reps throughout North America, helping to increase sales of the company's products, position the company as a strategic vendor, and improve distribution channels. Wehby is not new to the Kaivac cleaning world.
National Restaurant Association Announces 2012 Kitchen Innovation Award Recipients
Thursday, February 9th 2012Award recipients will be showcased in the interactive Kitchen Innovations Pavilion in its new central location on the exhibit floor (booth 2440 ) at the 2012 National Restaurant Association Restaurant, Hotel-Motel Show, set for its new dates May 5-8 at Chicago's McCormick Place."The independent panel of judges selected these products based on the forward-thinking approach to commercial kitchen equipment demonstrated by their innovative creators," said Jack Crawford Convention Chair for NRA Show 2012 and President and CEO of Ground Round Independent Owners Cooperative, LLC.
Kaivac Receives Kitchen Innovation Award from the National Restaurant Association
Thursday, February 9th 2012Hamilton, OH - February 9, 2012 - The National Restaurant Association has just announced the recipients of their 2012 Kitchen Innovations Award™
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 –
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