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The Healthy Schools Project* in Action at CA School for the Deaf

By: Briana Smith  |  May 8, 2014

On Friday, April 18, 2014 WAXIE Sanitary Maintenance Consultant, Remy Meehan, accompanied a couple of Kimberly-Clark Professional* trainers, Elisa Huang & Brian Boll, to the California School for the Deaf in Fremont, CA to educate the students & staff on the importance of handwashing. Kimberly-Clark Professional* developed The Healthy Schools Project* in order to help students understand germ transmission & how they can stay healthier in school and at home. Its key components focus around reminding students (as well as teachers, administrators & staff) to wash, wipe & sanitize.

Topics: Hand Hygiene, Education, Infection Prevention

Keeping Up with the Year-Around Cold & Flu Season

By: Briana Smith  |  May 1, 2014

Spring Fever, Summer Colds, Autumn Sniffles & Winter Chill

It always seems as if there’s something going around…colds, flu, allergies…regardless of the time of year. So shouldn’t everyone practice good hand hygiene year-around, and not just during the winter? After all, norovirus doesn’t go on a summer holiday.

The spread of germs happens daily as people consistently touch one surface or another. The rate at which germs are transmitted from one person to another may depend (airborne vs. direct contact) it’s important to protect yourself and others by doing the simplest of tasks: washing your hands.

Topics: Hand Hygiene, workplace wellness, healthcare, Education

5 Tips for Refinishing Your Gym Floor

Photos taken at WAXIE Ontario's Gym Floor Care Seminar at Pete Knight High School in Palmdale, CA on April 8, 2014

By: Tom Ciccarone  |  April 24, 2014

1. Know Your Area

Square footage, facility events, spring breaks and more can play a factor into preparing to refinish a gym floor. Square footage – this is key to have an accurate knowledge of how much area will be refinished. Varying finishes alongside individual application techniques can have certain finishes cover anywhere from 200 to 800 sq ft per gallon. Price per gallon can be deceptive, know your product and break it down to price per foot to ensure you know exactly what bang you are getting for your buck.

Topics: wood floors, Hard Floor Care, flooring, gym floors, cleaning tips

Thinking Globally While Composting Locally

As Earth Day approaches, it's a good time to review current resource management & waste diversion innovations, ideas & initiatives. Would you like implement a higher percentage of "green spend" for your facility? Are there products and technological advances that you'd like to incorporate into your facility management plans, such as LED lighting systems or water conservation strategies?

Are your business or facility's waste diversion goals being met? Does your business or facility even have waste diversion goals – and do these goals include the diversion of organic waste through composting?

Topics: composting, Recycling, Sustainability

12th Annual National Healthy Schools Day: April 8th

Compiled By: Keith Schneringer  |  April 3, 2014
Posted with permission from Healthy Schools Network, Inc.

Celebrate the 12th annual National Healthy Schools Day on Tuesday, April 8th during National Public Health Week! Since 2002 parents, teachers, school nurses, custodians, advocates, and agencies have promoted National Healthy Schools Day activities and events nationwide.

There are many ways to be involved in Healthy Schools Day, everything from distributing Indoor Air Quality information to hosting a green cleaning workshop at your local school. This grassroots day of awareness encourages everyone to get involved to make sure our nation's schools are healthy and productive environments for children.  

Topics: Indoor Air Quality, Education, Healthy Schools

No Sweat! WAXIE NorCal Installs 2,950+ Recycling & Trash Receptacles at Kaiser Permanente in 4 Days

Topics: Recycling, healthcare, WAXIE Northern California, Kaiser Permanente

Frequency for Cleaning & Maintaining Hard Floor Surfaces

By: Briana Smith, Graphic Designer, WAXIE Sanitary Supply

The #1 enemy in keeping your floors clean and in good condition is sand & dirt, followed by heavy equipment being dragged across it. Yes, foot traffic and general usage is a factor – but not in the way you might think. When people enter a building, they also bring in debris on the bottom of their footwear. In fact, 80% of dirt is tracked in via the front door of a building. As more people walk over the dirty floors the friction between the tracked in sand, dirt & debris and people’s shoes acts like sandpaper on the floor, causing the surface to get scuffed up and potentially damaged. That’s why it’s so important to have a daily or routine maintenance program in place.

Topics: flooring, hard flooring surfaces, cleaning tips

5 Places You Should Be Cleaning, But Probably Aren’t

By: Briana Smith  |  March 13, 2014

Anything with a Button

Everyone likes to be a button pusher, but no one thinks about cleaning them. Think about all the buttons that you push daily, both at work and at home…

• Microwaves in the break room or kitchen
• Remote controls in hotel rooms
• Vending machines in an office or...
• Elevator buttons
• Timer buttons, credit card machines, and cash registers
• Calculators & computer keyboards
• Gym equipment
• Non-touchscreen telephones

Cleaning & disinfecting wipes work wonderfully for getting into those nooks and crannies that surround buttons.

Topics: Cleaning, disinfecting, touchscreen devices

Tucson Restroom Care Seminar - February 27, 2014

Topics: cleaning equipment, restroom cleaning procedures, tile & grout maintenance, Tucson, odor control