Vision 2020 Step into the New Year with a Renewed Focus on a Healthy and Productive Building

Step into the New Year with a Renewed Focus on a Healthy and Productive Building

We devote our efforts to ensure every building that we maintain is exceptionally clean and sustainable focusing on good health and well-being of occupants. We continue to be on a path of making a real impact for good health wherever we provide services. CLS looks forward to enhancing your building’s health and well-being in 2020; contact us to work in a cleaner and healthier building.

Which floor appearance would you rather see in your building in 2020?

“What’s Your Budget?” –

Most building owners are wary to share their budget, but earlier this year a facility manager shared his budget upfront and asked us to develop a scope of work that would guarantee clean results and within. Knowing a building’s budget saved a lot of time - we started immediately customizing a plan indicating which solutions are possible to guarantee an exceptional clean and healthy building. The facility manger is grateful knowing that we removed the embedded dirt and dust (see pictures below) for the same money that he paid his previous cleaning service. Share your budget and we will put together a cleaning program with guaranteed clean results.

5 Tips To Stay Well During Flu Season

Fight the cold and flu with the following 5 tips

1. Get vaccinated - During the 2017-2018 U.S. flu season, the flu vaccine prevented an estimated 7.1 million illnesses, 3.7 million hospitalizations, and 8,000 deaths associated with the flu, according to the U.S. Center For Disease Control.

2. Keep hands clean - Health experts know that more than 80 percent of illnesses can be transmitted by hands.

3. Know when to clean hands - Knowing when hands must be cleaned is a key component in practicing good hand hygiene. Critical times include before eating or preparing food; after touching something that could be contaminated, such as a garbage can or restaurant menu; after caring for someone who is sick; after changing diapers; after sneezing or coughing; and after using the bathroom.

4. Clean high-touch surfaces - Since so many illnesses are transmitted by touch, it’s important to clean objects and surfaces that people may frequently encounter, such as cell phones, door handles, handrails, elevator buttons, refrigerator handles, shopping cart handles, countertops, etc. After touching these surfaces, people often touch their face, other objects or other people, spreading these germs further. Disinfecting surfaces and objects helps eliminate the number of germs that are passed around and picked up by others, breaking the cycle of infection.

5. Stay home when sick - Be a hero to others this cold and flu season by not coming into work while sick. The CDC recommends that people stay home for at least 24 hours after their fever is gone except to get medical care or for other necessities.

Flu Victims of 1918

With flu on the rampage we are remembering an outbreak it experienced 101 years ago.

Hundreds of thousands gathered in Philadelphia Sept. 28, 1918 to watch the Liberty Loan Parade, an event put on to gather public support for government bonds intended to aid the Allied Forces’ efforts in World War I. Among those guests was influenza, which would go on to kill nearly 13,000 in the city in the weeks following the parade, reports The Washington Post. Historians now believe the massive parade helped to spread influenza throughout the City of Brotherly Love.

Ironically, a parade will take place in Philadelphia as a kickoff to “Spit Spreads Death,” an exhibition and project put on by the Mütter Museum of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia. People will march in honor of those who died in Philadelphia due to the pandemic, and the names of the 751 people who died on its deadliest day will be announced.

In addition to honoring those who died in the 1918 flu outbreak, the purpose of the event is to draw attention to all of those who contract the flu in the United States today.

The somber parade might seem extra jarring to members of the crowd after the World Bank and the World Health Organization announced that the world is ill-prepared for a global pandemic should one occur.

Cleaning Fights Back Against Bacteria

For offices seeing an inordinate number of employees— disappearing from the building due to illnesses, here are a few things you should do:

Deep clean.

Bacteria lurks on the doorknob as soon as occupants walk inside of the building. Begin by deep clean everything and then wipe daily or weekly basis.

Clean more often

Bacteria are among the fastest reproducing organisms in the world, according to the U.S. Department of Energy. They can double every four to 20 minutes; you really can’t clean too often; especially if you’re in the midst of an epidemic.

Make sure your cleaning chemicals are safe

That should go without saying, but some cleaning supplies are toxic and are known to include VOCs (volatile organic compounds). VOCs can cause chronic respiratory troubles, allergic reactions and headaches. Students may not catch a disease by being exposed to VOCs, but some will likely go home with a splitting headache, a rash or an asthma attack.

In any case, now is the time to be on guard, and possibly a time to step up your cleaning routine. This is, unfortunately, an era in which the measles, mumps, whooping cough and other once virtually vanquished diseases are making a comeback.

Space Cleaning

There’s a lot of trash in space, but there’s nobody up there to clean it all up. That’s why many efforts are being put in place to clean space junk up before it causes problems for satellites and astronauts, according to Axios .

Like with Earth, humans are responsible for all the garbage in space. Satellites that broke down now float aimlessly through the dark. Rocket bodies and spacecraft from various missions orbit around the Earth, primed to collide with functioning space equipment also in orbit.

Space should be even more heavily trafficked in the coming years, as the market for in-orbit satellite services is expected to reach $4.5 billion in revenues before the end of the new decade, according to the recent Space Tourism and Travel Markets report by Northern Sky Research .

In an effort to clean up the clutter, the European Space Agency just signed a contract to remove a piece of leftover rocket from orbit as early as 2025. To keep a faltering satellite from completely failing, (creating even more space junk) aerospace and defense company Northrop Grumman launched a space vehicle in October that will attempt to fix up the device. Astroscale, a private Japanese company specializing in the removal of debris from space, plans to launch a test mission this year.