For Rodent Awareness Week, business owners and facility managers are reminded to maintain diligence in pest prevention measures that protect the businesses and buildings from the negative impacts of rodent incursions and infestations.

Pest Prevention Tips for Rodent Awareness Week
Rodent infestations can cause severe financial damage to a business's built environment and its public reputation and ability to continue operations without costly repairs and reparations.

Global Handwashing Day is an international campaign to promote awareness and motivate positive actions to reduce the spread and impact of respiratory and intestinal diseases around the world.

Why the World Needs Global Hand Hygiene Initiatives
The primary objective of Global Handwashing Day is to increase high-quality handwashing habits around the world.

K-12 facilities house large numbers of densely packed, vulnerable, unvaccinated occupants, underscoring the criticality of high outcome cleaning and disinfection protocols.

Enhanced Cleaning to Combat COVID in the Classroom
According to the National Center for Education Statistics, approximately 48.1M students attended school in the US in the Fall of 2020.

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Back-to-school statistics

The age demographic of K-12 students ranges from approximately 5-years-old to 17-years-old.

Sustainable business practices promote fiscal success, attract emerging buyer demographics, and address environmental and social challenges while promoting a safer, healthier, more productive, and creative work environment.

Americans Prefer Environmentally Conscious Businesses
According to a recent survey commissioned by Sofidel, most American consumers prefer to do business with environmentally conscientious brands.

Protecting occupant health through a combination of enhanced surface hygiene and personal health habits is critical for maintaining the demonstrable necessity for in-person classroom learning.

Enhanced Cleaning Measures to Combat the COVID Slide
In-person learning is critical for combatting the slide in student academic, social, and emotional development commonly observed during prolonged school closures.

Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic and mainly since the return of office employees from their work-from-home status, new surface cleaning and occupant hygiene habits have been observed, for which employers should take note.

New Survey Takes Note of Emerging Occupant Cleaning and Hygiene Habits
Office worker stress and anxiety resulting from the fear surrounding a potential COVID-19 infection and returning to the workplace is a legitimate challenge business owners must recognize and address.

Hygiene theater, a term made famous during the height of the pandemic, is a dangerous, unnecessary, and wasteful practice that fails in every regard to thwart the advance of SARS-CoV-2 or protect facility occupants from the dangers commonly found on commonly touched surfaces and inside public buildings.

A primary contributor to poor occupant health is low-quality indoor air which is directly impacted through the introduction of toxic cleaning chemicals and outdoor soil and contaminants--both of which can be reduced through the strategic placement of entryway and walkway matting.

Recent health reports show the rates of COVID Delta variant detections may be flattening, an increase in the number of logged cases of the potentially more transmissible MU variant, and a low rate of influenza-like illnesses being reported.

The Latest in Health-Related News for September 2021
In the latest round of health alerts, some relatively good news--reported cases of the SARS-CoV-2 virus in California are flattening, and the Delta variant surge appears to be slowing.

Making your office cleaning procedures leaner and greener will not only save your organization time and money, but will also improve occupant health and performance.

Lean Green Office Cleaning
Leaning up your office cleaning does not translate into barebones minimalism--it means refining processes to increase positive, health-focused outcomes that create higher value for facility occupants and organizational stakeholders.