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Facility Cleaning & Maintenance
CDC updates COVID-19 school recommendations
The recommendations for safe in-person learning for K–12 schools and early care programs have undergone a few changes.
Facility Cleaning & Maintenance
5 ways to create cleaner environments in schools
To ensure schools are taking the best first step forward, their cleaning operations should zero in on five key areas of focus.
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Creating a safe haven in clean schools
Traditionally, schools maintained their own janitorial staff on-site, but this is no longer optimal in many cases.
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Canadian school districts build for healthier environments
The schools installed future-ready infrastructure improvements for healthier, more sustainable learning environments.
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HSC & Green Seal unite on standard for IAQ in schools
The standard will be the centrepiece of a program to help school facility management transform health and sustainability.
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Strategies to reduce the risk of COVID in schools
Schools should implement these layered prevention strategies to mitigate the risks of COVID infection or transmission to the school community and beyond.
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Nominations open for 2022 Cintas Custodian of the Year
Nominations for the annual honour, which recognizes the best of the best among school custodians, close March 1.
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Braving the great indoors: IAQ solutions for higher education
It’s more important than ever to keep students, staff, and the community healthy.
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3 ways schools can address poor IAQ
Three steps that school administrators can take immediately at little or no added cost to help improve and protect the IAQ in their facilities.
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Ready and resilient with wood
Communities are looking to mass timber as a solution that can cut carbon while delivering safe, resilient structures.
Canadian Facility Management & Design
Maintaining schools for second pandemic winter
Every team should create a checklist, and then continually review their internal systems—floor by floor—to reveal any possible failure points.
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Destructive TikTok challenge creating work for school cleaners
The "devious licks" trend, wherein students vandalize school washrooms, is placing a greater strain on cleaning staff.
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Research informs circadian-effective lighting in schools and hospitals
The recommended light levels in K-12 classrooms and for general (non-exam) lighting in hospital patient rooms are generally too low for daytime circadian stimulation.
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How schools are boosting air quality measures
The report found that schools have prioritized ventilation and filtration to reduce the transmission of the virus.
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Promoting better hand & surface hygiene in schools
Proper hand hygiene training, heightened cleaning, and access to hygiene products are essential to keeping schools safe.
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Safety concerns abound as students head back to school
Assessing health, safety, and infection control risks of going back to school against the value of physical classes is a tricky balance.
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Feared flu-COVID “twindemic” not materializing
There were prominent fears that COVID-19 and flu could launch a twin global assault. Thankfully, that does not appear to be materializing.
