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Facility Cleaning & Maintenance

Lessons for facility managers from the 2022/2023 flu season

The winter months typically bring more colds and flu, but according to studies, the 2022/2023 influenza season has recorded higher than usual numbers and it
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Facility Cleaning & Maintenance

Sanitizing surfaces that touchless tech doesn’t address

With all the innovation the cleaning industry has seen in the last few years, what about the surfaces that tech doesn’t cover? From touchless technology
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Facility Cleaning & Maintenance

Cleaning floors for health, instead of for appearance

Science is emerging about facility managers prioritizing your floors to clean for health, rather than for appearance.
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Facility Cleaning & Maintenance

Microfibre mops: A laundry list of questions

Effective cleaning of high-touch surfaces and floors in healthcare facilities requires proper cleaning tools like microfibre mops.

Facility Cleaning & Maintenance

Hospital faucets home to germs: study

Hand hygiene is a critical component of infection prevention in hospitals, but the unintended consequences include water splashing out of a sink to spread contaminants from dirty faucets.
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Facility Cleaning & Maintenance

Are public washrooms reservoirs of drug-resistant bacteria?

Hand-drying facilities in public washrooms can act as reservoirs of drug-resistant bacteria, finds new research published in the American Journal of Infection Control.
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Facility Cleaning & Maintenance

Sinks next to patient toilets may harbour dangerous germs: study

Klebsiella is a type of bacteria that can cause a number of healthcare-associated infections, such as pneumonia, bloodstream infections, wound infections, or surgical site infections.

Facility Cleaning & Maintenance

How germs and bacteria thrive on school desks

Bacteria and fungi found on school desks comes overwhelmingly from the children sitting at them, a new study has revealed.