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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
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…A Strategic Focus For Distributors
There's another breed of distributor that views the current environment as an opportunity. They see this as a prime time to aggressively steal new business and market share from the unprepared. They´ve discovered that proactively executing a well-thought-out business strategy empowers them to win new customers while keeping and growing their existing ones. These winners are thriving in today's market. For them, this is the best of times…
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
Public schools around the United States must contend with a variety of challenges: teacher and student morale, student discipline, safety, and now, more than ever before, health.
Cleaning Equipment Helps School Clean Up after Flood
Damaging storms have recently affected several areas of Western New York, and the result has been flooded roads, homes, and buildings. The storms, which started in early August, have continued off and on through the middle of the month.
Wisconsin Prison Adopts No-Touch Cleaning
The Wisconsin Secure Program Facility (WSPF), Boscobel, WI, reports they are now cleaning the facility using No-Touch Cleaning® equipment developed by Kaivac, Inc. The 205,590-square-foot facility retains its own custodians and has nine cleaning workers and one lead custodian maintaining the entire institution. According to a report by WSPF, using the Kaivac equipment, “the [high-quality] cleanliness the prison strives for is very apparent.” The Kaivac system applies cleaning chemicals to surfaces to be cleaned.
Getting In and Out of Prison...Cells
The Wisconsin Secure Program Facility (WSPF) is the only institution in the state’s department of corrections that has no inmate workers to assist in cleaning. The facility has more than 205,590 square feet and ten custodians who are responsible for maintaining the entire institution, including nearly 2,000 inmate cells. The high-quality cleanliness that they strive for is apparent at WSPF, according to a prison spokesperson.
Joni Daley, founder of Daley Home Management Corporation , a full-service cleaning company in Airdrie, Alberta, Canada has been in business for more than 10 years. During that time, she has tried lots of different cleaning tools but finds one to be especially effective at keeping her customers facilities clean and healthy: the Kaivac No-Touch Cleaning®
Recent News
- Tuesday, March 2nd 2010
Hamilton, OH – March 2, 2010 -As reported in the Saturday, February 27, 2010, edition of The New York Times,* a little-known category of 'gram-negative' bacteria and germs called Acinetobacter baumannii are killing 'tens of thousands of hospital patients each year.' Compared to MRSA (methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus), which receives considerable media and medical attention and for which there are some antibiotics available to fight the disease, there are no antibiotics to battle this new strain of bacteria, which infectious disease experts say makes it an even greater threat. Acinetobacter baumannii are typically hospital-acquired bacteria that enter the body through open wounds, catheters, and breathing tubes.
Kaivac Alert: Scrubbing Backfires on Backsides
Tuesday, February 9th 2010Hamilton, OH – February 9, 2010 - Rashes from toilet seats on the buttocks and legs of American children are a growing problem, according to a report in the January 2010 issue of Pediatrics.* Referred to as toilet seat dermatitis, the problem was historically believed to be the result of allergies to certain types of toilet seats such as wooden seats.
School District Believes Current Cleaning Program Addresses the H1N1 Challenge
Monday, January 25th 2010Hamilton, OH – January 25, 2010 - As a result of recent concerns about H1N1 and other public health menaces, school districts around the country have been taking a number of steps to help protect the health of their students and staffs.
Details Grab Teachers' Attention
Monday, October 26th 2009Educators Give White Paper on Preventing the Spread of H1N1 Extra Credit A White Paper on reducing the risk of H1N1 virus in school settings has received so much attention by educators in the Ohio area that Kaivac, Inc., which prepared the paper, is making it available to educators throughout the country.
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