Electrostatic Spray Technology in a School Gym Locker

What Is Electrostatic Disinfection and How Does It Work?

Posted on March 10, 2020September 29, 2023 by sagefrog

When it comes to cleaning surfaces and objects, traditional dry and wet dusting tends to be the first methods that come to mind. While these cleaning techniques are tried and true, they do little more than spread filth around, unless the rags used are washed regularly. Dry dusting kicks up resting particles, redistributing them into the air and onto other surfaces. Wet dusting can involve harmful cleaning chemicals and make it hard to reach certain spots or objects. For sensitive places, like clean rooms, R&D labs, healthcare facility cleaning and schools, there’s a more effective method for stripping dirt, dust and germs from surfaces that require specialized sanitation: electrostatic spray.

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The Flu Virus: How Long Can It Survive?

Posted on March 5, 2020March 18, 2026 by sagefrog

Estimates from the CDC show that the United States sees between 9 million and 45 million cases of influenza (flu). As of 2018, that equates to an estimated nationwide burden of $11.2 billion per year. Fortunately, there are simple things you can do to protect yourself, your workplace, and your coworkers from the hazards of flu season.

The 2019–2020 Flu Season: February Update & Tips to Stay Healthy

Posted on February 19, 2020September 29, 2023 by sagefrog

Week six of flu season in the US saw a slight decrease in visits to healthcare providers for those suffering from influenza-like illnesses and symptoms. However, all regions throughout the US are still dealing with more cases than usual.

Urgent Care Cleaning: 10 Tips for a Clean Urgent Care Environment

Posted on January 21, 2020September 29, 2023 by sagefrog

Let’s start with a quick story: In the 19^th century, Ignaz Semmelweiss worked as an obstetrics assistant in Vienna General Hospital. Soon after beginning work, he discovered that women who were treated in the doctor-run maternity ward were becoming ill and dying at an alarmingly higher rate than those who were treated in the mid-wife run ward.

The doctors were often coming directly from performing autopsies and weren’t taking any steps in between for proper sanitation. He, and Florence Nightingale around the same time, pushed for strict hand-washing regulations but were met with resistance. It wasn’t until the 1980s when the US Center for Disease Control implemented important hygiene guidelines requiring strict hand-washing procedures and regulations; but keeping your hands clean is only the first basic step of ensuring cleanliness in a healthcare environment.

An urgent care center is a fast-paced environment with patients coming and going at all hours. From illnesses and injuries to preventative care and blood tests, your staff treats people of all ages with all types of conditions and needs. It’s vital to protect your healthcare workers and patients by adhering to facility-wide cleanliness guidelines.

In this blog, we’re discussing the top 10 tips to ensure your urgent care center is always clean and sanitary for your staff and patients.

Hospital Cleaning: What Your Cleaning Service Already Knows

Posted on September 10, 2019September 29, 2023 by sagefrog

Finding a trusted professional cleaning service to maintain your building—especially when you work in the healthcare industry—can be challenging. It takes an experienced team to understand the nuances of working in a care environment and apply up-to-date cleaning best practices to a hospital, which relies on clean and sanitized areas to function properly and reduce health risks for patients, staff and visitors. If you’re curious about the skills and expertise that a cleaning service needs today or you want to confirm that your current team is doing a great job, review some of the key things they should know about how to make your facility safe and spotless.

eBook: Why a Clean Workplace Matters [Free Download]

Posted on May 28, 2019September 29, 2023 by sagefrog

We all know that the young workforce has high expectations for today’s businesses. As employees, they want to do business for companies that remain professional and provide a healthy, welcoming space for team members to work, learn and grow. As customers, they want to purchase products and services from brands that look, feel and sound both authentic and transparent. All of these traits come together to form a first impression for professionals and consumers young and old. But organizations across all industries forget the value of a first impression. Efforts to build an appealing and modern brand image become buried under the day-to-day work creating outstanding products and services and managing business operations.

Terminal Cleaning of Operating Rooms: What It (Really) Means

Posted on May 22, 2019September 29, 2023 by sagefrog

It’s imperative that operating rooms be kept clean in order to ensure patient and healthcare staff safety from harmful microorganisms. Terminal cleaning is typically carried out after an operating room has been used to treat a patient with a multidrug-resistant organisms (MDROs) infection.

Two nurses walking down a hallway with a stretcher after a hospital room has been cleaned

Hospital Cleaning Procedures & Methods: How to Ensure a Spotless Environment of Care

Posted on April 5, 2019March 18, 2026 by sagefrog

A thorough cleaning regiment must be employed by hospital cleaning and janitorial staff in order to ensure proper microbe and disease remediation for the safety of employees, and most importantly of patients. A hospital or healthcare environment is unique in the respect that it houses people with compromised health, while also housing potentially deadly diseases and microbes in proximity, and often in the same room. It’s for this reason that hospital cleaning procedures and methods must be full-proof and carried out by qualified staff who can ensure satisfactory microbial and disease remediation.

Cleanroom Classifications: How to Properly Disinfect Each Type

Posted on January 21, 2019September 29, 2023 by sagefrog

Cleanroom standards are some of the most stringent to adhere to. A cleanroom must be meticulously cleaned and disinfected depending on the type of research, development or assembly taking place within it. For instance, a clean room used for developing or assembling pharmaceuticals has a wide range of factors that will contribute to its classification, depending on how clean the room needs to be in order for untainted assembly and production to take place.

How Long Does the Flu Last in Commercial Buildings?

Posted on November 20, 2018March 18, 2026 by sagefrog

The flu is one of the most common and deadly viruses that exists. This year is the first time that the flu is projected to be equally widespread across the United States¹. It’s also projected to cause the highest amount of casualties, with 80,000 flu-associated deaths projected by year’s end². As a result of its widespread and deadly nature, and with flu season approaching, the need to keep commercial buildings, such as office spaces, schools and health care facilities, free of the viruses’ germs is more urgent than ever before.

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