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Global Handwashing Day & Hand Hygiene Education

By: Briana Smith  |  October 10, 2019

Global Handwashing Day is right around the corner, next week to be precise, on October 15th. Founded in 2008, Global Handwashing Day highlights the importance of good hand hygiene practices particularly focusing on children & schools. Their slogan is “Clean hands save lives” as many children around the world develop illnesses, such as diarrheal and acute respiratory infections, that can be prevented by washing their hands with soap and water.

One of the tools Kimberly-Clark Professional* uses as part of their The Healthy Schools Project* in promoting hand hygiene education for children in schools is glitter. The teacher puts a non-toxic glitter substance on a child’s hands and has them play with things for a short while. Afterwards, the class can find all of the objects and surfaces with the glitter, which shows them how easy germs can spread.

Topics: Hand Hygiene, Global Handwashing Day

PDIR: R is for Restorative (Cleaning)

Republished with permission from Windsor's Cleaning Tip of the Month eNewletter September 2013

Restorative cleaning is the final step in our PDIR cleaning process. This is the most labor and time intensive step. If you utilize PDIR in your facility you will reduce your dependence on restorative cleaning, ultimately saving you time, money, and chemical. As a reminder PDIR stands for Preventative, Daily, Interim and Restorative cleaning processes.

Topics: Windsor, equipment, restorative cleaning

WAXIE Ontario Helps Out the Casa Youth Shelter

Topics: community involvement, Casa Youth Shelter, Ontario

WAXIE Tucson’s Healthy Workplace and Restroom Care Seminar

Topics: Restroom Care, Healthy Workplace, Tucson, seminar

Eight Tips For Keeping Facilities Clean

Topics: cleaning procedures, flooring, Restrooms, green cleaning chemicals

WAXIE Sanitary Supply Announces General Manager for Mesa, AZ Division

Topics: Mesa, general manager, press release

Ask Sadie: WAXIE Sanitary Supply’s Commitment to Sustainability

Topics: business, Sustainability, Ask Sadie

PDIR: I is for Interim (Cleaning)

Republished with permission from Windsor's Cleaning Tip of the Month eNewletter August 2013

Interim cleaning is often the most overlooked step in the PDIR cleaning process. As a reminder, PDIR stands for Preventative, Daily, Interim, and Restorative cleaning processes. These cleaning processes form a cost-saving cleaning system for any facility.

Topics: carpet, flooring, machines & equipment, cleaning tips

Preserving History: Restoring UCLA’s Royce Hall’s Hard Wood Floors

By: Briana Smith & Tom Ciccarone  |  August 29, 2013

UCLA’s Royce Hall has been an institution in Los Angeles for over 90 years. It has hosted acclaimed orchestras, musicians, performing artists & speakers since 1929 when the building was completed. It even survived the 1994 Northridge earthquake, even though it was heavily damaged and had to be renovated. One thing that hadn’t been touched much though was the original hard wood floors in the studio area installed in the mid 1920’s and they were looking rather worse for wear.

Topics: wood floors, flooring, gym floors