Group A strep bacteria are very contagious. The mode of transmission for Group A strep bacteria are predominantly direct person to person contact in droplets expelled through coughing and sneezing. ...
During the summer holiday period in the UK we were asked to provide onsite training to in-house housekeeping and cleaning staff, to a number of state run and private schools. Any holiday period (summer break or end of term) is ideal for cleaning teams to...
Cleaning in the workplace plays an incredibly important role in controlling and preventing the spread of an infection – Cleaning is the front line in the war on infection....
Cleaning and sanitising as a distinct two-step process is the key step in effective infection control. in order to understand how cleaning and sanitising is effective, we need to briefly examine how a microorganism migrates to a susceptible host. ...
The 2 metre social distancing rule dominates the prevailing legal and advisory guidance issued by governments world-wide. This rule is based on the well established research that assumes respiratory viruses are transmitted via contaminated droplets during exhalation, either as a normal process or more forcefully...
We started with the marketing of disinfectants as being labelled as a percentage reduction, and we said that 99.9% reduction sounded like it was almost 100%. However, we now know that unchecked bacteria can grow into enormous populations numbering into the millions, billions and trillions...
Browse any supermarket line of kitchen and bathroom cleaners and you will notice a common theme in their marketing – “kills 99.9% of bacteria”, usually followed by an asterisk exclaiming that the product will kill up to 99.9% if used exactly as dictated under ideal...
At the end of December 2019 several cases of acute respiratory syndrome were reported in Wuhan City, China. It was very quickly identified as a new coronavirus, or severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). SARS-CoV-2 is a new strain of coronavirus that has not...
In these unprecedented times of lockdown by virtue of an infectious agent, cleaning has seemingly taken a step to the side, although that is to be expected as organisations have effectively shut their doors to customers. However, as the restrictions start to ease around the...
Any outbreak of infection will have such a huge impact on an organisation. As we have seen in the COVID19 pandemic in early 2020, outbreaks can effectively shut down an organisation. Even the annual outbreaks of food poisoning or Flu can cause tremendous harm to...