In the January/February 2020 issue of ISSA Today, I authored an article entitled Facing the Next Pandemic—Microbial Warriors need to prepare and be ready to gear up and attack. Within that month, in late January 2020, the SARS-CoV-2 outbreak was considered a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC) by the World Health Organization (WHO). Then, ...
ISSA Show North America Virtual Experience 2020 made history November 16-19 with an expanded selection of education, workshops, spotlight speaker opportunities, awards presentations and, to cap it all off, an interactive trade show. “We were grateful for everyone’s willingness to try something new,” said Lindsay Roberts, the group director for ISSA Show North America. “We ...
If everything went according to our initial blueprint for the year, we would have wrapped up the best ISSA Show North America in history last month in Chicago, celebrating this great industry we are so fortunate to be a part of with old friends and new. If there is one thing we have learned from ...
Since facility managers can choose from a variety of professional cleaning products currently on the market, the need to separate your brand from your competitors is now more crucial than ever. Product packaging and design is a key marketing differentiator that can go a long way to make a good first impression and create strong ...
Voters across the country approved at least 85 of 124 ballot measures on Election Day 2020, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures. Measures get on state ballots in one of two ways—through a citizen initiative, where citizens have an idea for a statutory or constitutional change and gather a sufficient number of signatures to ...
If you were like me, as you worked your way through elementary, middle, and high school, there was nothing you hated more than homework and tests. It was more important to go to football games or hang out at the mall. And you didn’t even want to think about how much work there would be ...
Since 2008, Rag Mops Cleaning Service Inc. of Lewisville, Texas, has been a partner of Cleaning for a Reason, an ISSA Charities signature program that supports cancer patients through free home cleanings. Owner Debi Bascue immediately felt connected to the cause, as Rag Mops was founded with the intention of supporting and giving back to ...
Although the novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, has been the main pathogen of concern lately, one of the major roles of a university’s environmental services (EVS) staff is infection control against norovirus and methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). Shared spaces and surfaces, along with close quarters on a school campus, make it easy to contract norovirus and MRSA, ...
During this pandemic era, the Alachua County Facilities Department in Gainesville, Fla., like many other building maintenance organizations across the nation, moved quickly to provide essential workers with the necessary training to sanitize, disinfect, and sterilize public buildings. We launched this campaign as an effort to break the COVID-19 chain. The Facilities Department needed to ...
One of the most common questions people are asking me these days is: How long do infectious viruses and bacteria live on surfaces? Like everything in life, the viability of a virus or bacteria is a function of molecular structure. But viruses are not really “alive” because they cannot reproduce by themselves. So instead of ...
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