Every facility manager wants to offer practical and effective cleaning solutions in response to the coronavirus pandemic, but in an effort to act quickly, many are unintentionally giving into hygiene theater. Hygiene theater can be defined as cleaning or disinfecting practices that are performed just for the sake of looking good, or to provide a […]
Read More »Disinfection is a major step in every back to school checklist. Although it is extremely important, disinfection isn’t effective on its own. You can disinfect every inch of a school, but if students and staff leave campus and do not wear masks, don’t physically distance, or don’t practice hand hygiene, those efforts won’t matter. Education […]
Read More »A dwell time, also known as contact time, is the amount of time a disinfectant must remain visibly wet on a surface to effectively kill a specific pathogen. Too often we see people spraying a surface with a disinfectant and immediately wiping the disinfectant away with a towel. There is one major issue with this: […]
Read More »Cleaning wasn’t Georgina Lomeli’s first choice of profession, but she makes her OctoClean franchise work for her. She first heard about OctoClean from her sister who owned a franchise and she later decided to start a franchise of her own. Prior to owning an OctoClean franchise, Georgina worked for 20 years as a group leader […]
Read More »It is more important now than ever to understand how to properly protect yourself from infection. Unfortunately, there is a lot of confusion around which cleaning methods are and aren’t appropriate. People tend to use the terms cleaning, sanitizing, disinfecting and sterilizing interchangeably, but there are distinct differences between all four. Read on to learn […]
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