Strong odors are a deterrent to customers, hotel guests, patients, and building occupants--leading to lost profits, decreased productivity, and a diminished professional image.
Smells are Harming Your Business
Strong or foul odors are problematic for schools, healthcare facilities, hospitality, and other businesses--negatively impacting indoor air quality (IAQ) and potentially indicating issues with toxic chemical exposure.
The preventable spread of infection costs U.S. businesses billions of dollars every year in lost productivity--an issue exacerbated through the lack of high-contact surface disinfection.
What the Spread of Infection Costs the U.S. Each Year
Poor worker health costs the U.S. economy more than half a trillion dollars each year--you read that correctly.
It should come as no surprise to anyone that a dirty hotel room is offputting and can drive away guests, but new research suggests that it makes occupants so uncomfortable that they cannot sleep at night due to concerns over the filth.
Survey Says - Dirty Hotel Rooms Keep Guests up at Night
A filthy hotel room can make a guest turn around, walk out, and never return, but for those who choose to stay, the lack of cleanliness and hygiene is likely to keep them up through a sleepless night.
The 2019-2020 influenza season is here, and for several reasons, it is predicted to be a bad one for which schools and businesses must be prepared.
Influenza, Coming to a Town Near You
It's that time again--time to start tracking the dreaded march of flu across the country as it wreaks havoc on our schools, healthcare systems, and economy.
Improving indoor air quality (IAQ) in the classroom has been shown to have a dramatic effect on student health and performance, resulting in higher attendance numbers, better test scores, and improved long-term outcomes.
Indoor Air Quality in the Classroom
Indoor air pollution is an under-researched challenge that likely poses significant long and short-term health risks to our nation's children.
International Infection Prevention Week (IIPW) takes place on October 13-19, 2019, and, due to the dramatic rise in measles cases, this year’s theme is Vaccines Are Everybody’s Business.
Infection Prevention is Everyone's Business
Infection prevention and control is everyone's responsibility--from individuals in the community to doctors and nurses in medical facilities.
Global Handwashing Day, celebrated October 15th of every year, is the perfect time to promote hand hygiene practices for students and workers to stay safe and healthy all year long.
Promoting Global Handwashing Day 2019
The first Global Handwashing Day (GHD), originally founded by the Global Handwashing Partnership (GHP), began October 2008 in Stockholm, Sweeden and included more than 120 million children from more than 70 different countries.
According to recent reports release by the World Health Organization (WHO), the world is at increased and growing risk for a global pandemic on par with the 1918 Spanish Flu outbreak.
What Does a Global Pandemic Look Like?
The 1918 influenza (H1N1) pandemic, commonly referred to as the Spanish Flu, lasted from approximately January 1918 to December 1920.
Due to inadequate data and suppressed reporting, the full scale of the pandemic will likely never be known.
As recurrence of flu epidemics and the concern of global pandemics increases around the world, businesses are responding with new technological innovations that take a new approach to infection prevention, including touchless technologies.
Touch and the Spread of Infectious Disease
According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), approximately 80% of commonly acquired illness is transmitted as a result of direct contact with a contaminated person or surface, leading to rising concerns regarding the cleanliness of facilities where we work, learn, and eat.
Workplace cleanliness and hygiene, the quality of cleaning products, and the absence of environmental pollutants and illness-causing germs are top priorities for today's workforce.
A Clean Office Leads to Happier Workers
You've likely come across the statistic that humans spend approximately ninety percent of their time indoors.