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Hand Hygiene Basics White Paper

Health and Safety

10 Hygiene Tips to Consider Before Reopening

As people return to work, it’s important to reassure them about the cleanliness and hygiene of your facility. Before you reopen, consider the following 10-steps to demonstrate your commitment to maintaining a clean and hygienic environment.

Productivity and Efficiency

The Smart Way to Improve Restroom Efficiency & Satisfaction

Leading the way in smart sensing technology, the Onvation™ Smart Restroom Management System delivers data that helps those who manage facilities optimize restroom efficiency, reduce waste and create a more positive user experience.

Customer Experience

Onvation^® Healthcare Customer Success Story

Onvation customer Orlando Ackerson, Resident Regional Director Environmental Services for a 750,000 sq. ft. medical facility in Southern California, tells us how using the Onvation real time alerts has made his team more efficient. Resulting in a 12% increase in workforce index scores, and a 20% decrease in discharge turn times at his facility.

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Onvation^® Customer Success Story

After installing the Onvation Smart Restroom Management System, Maureen Burns, Senior Property Manager at River Park Plaza Building in St. Paul, Minnesota, experienced a ninety percent reduction in tenant complaints, and a fifty percent reduction in consumable waste at her facility.

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Investing in smart restroom technology helps to create a better guest experience venue-wide

Long, winding bathroom lines are synonymous with big venues. Whether it is a sporting event, a concert, an amusement park, the theater or a convention center, everyone keeps an eye on the line to assess if it’s a good time to pop in.

The question on everyone’s mind: What’s the bathroom situation?

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Are Your Office Restrooms Sending the Right Message?

Professional men and women have a lot on their minds when it comes to one of the most critical areas in the office—the restroom. Read more to learn about employee restroom expectations and what businesses can do to help.

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Putting Safety First Increases Productivity and Efficiency

Safety at work is important when it comes to improving productivity and efficiency. Keeping your employees engaged gives them ownership and makes them more accountable when it comes to being safe in the workplace.

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Why Smart Restrooms Matter

A recent survey found that about three-quarters (74%) of consumers agree if the restroom is not clean, they do not believe the rest of the facility is being cleaned properly³.

Environment

The RightCycle^TM Program and Dallas Zoo Work Together to Recycle Disposable Gloves

The Dallas Zoo partnered with The RightCycle Program to create a better world for animals by recycling disposable nitrile gloves that might be used for animal care, cleaning, and food preparation.

Productivity and Efficiency

Retain Top Talent Amidst a Competitive Labor Market with Smart Restroom Technology

By: Juliet Hollyhurst, Onvation® operations leader, Kimberly-Clark Professional

Productivity and Efficiency

ONVATION: Adding Intelligence to Cleaning Improves Decision Confidence

One of the first products to achieve the GBAC STAR™ Registered Seal was The Onvation Smart Restroom Solution, manufactured by Kimberly Clark. Onvation checked all the boxes for registration as it was assessed by the GBAC Advisory Council Scientific Board for its scientific validity, usability, practicality, safety and effectiveness related to claimed uses. This registration assures customers and manufacturers/companies that the program or technology has been graded against a rigorous process to be awarded the GBAC STAR™ Registered Seal.

Environment

University of Cincinnati Chemistry Department Adopts Organic Solution to Reduce Solid Waste

Over the years, university laboratories go through thousands of single-use lab coats and nitrile gloves. Read the case study to learn how The RightCycle™ Program helped the University of Cincinnati keep more than 650 pounds of used PPE out of landfills.

Environment

Sierra Nevada Brewing Company Taps Program to Recycle Used Gloves

Sierra Nevada’s commitment to sustainability is evident throughout the company. This case study highlights how The RightCycle™ Program helped the first company to achieve platinum zero-waste certification become even more sustainable with its gloves.

Environment

Is your company a laggard or a leader?

Sustainability is a journey with several stages along the way and not every organization is at the same point in that journey or on the same path. “We’ve seen a maturation in the corporate response to environmental responsibility,” said Dr. Sally Uren, Chief Executive of Forum for the Future, in an online forum before a group of Kimberly-Clark Professional customers.

Environment

Kimberly-Clark Professional Announces Greenovation Awards for Sustainability Leadership and Waste Reduction

Environment

10 trends in sustainability and how they could impact your business

While climate change will have significant impacts on virtually everyone, Uren outlined 10 trends in sustainability that directly impact businesses in a recent online forum for a select group of Kimberly-Clark Professional customers.

Health and Safety

Why Paper Towels Are Better for Hand Drying

Paper towels are the most hygienic option for hand drying. Check out why single-use towels offer the most effective and most hygienic hand washing solution compared to jet air dryers.

Health and Safety

The 5 Dirtiest Places in Your Office Might Surprise You

Dirt can sometimes hide in the most obvious places. Collaboration and teamwork are the norm in today’s modern offices, but as co-workers meet in crowded conference rooms and huddle over computers exchanging ideas, they’re also sharing something else, germs.

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Smart, Clean Restrooms Can Help Reduce Germ Transmission in Healthcare Facilities

Even before the pandemic, unsanitary restroom conditions were bothersome and often included smelly odors, splattered surfaces, and no toilet paper or soap. The goal is often to get in and get out as quickly and with as little contact as possible. As visitation restrictions loosen and foot traffic increases in hospitals and healthcare facilities, the odds are stacking up for increased healthcare-acquired infections (HAIs). In fact, according to the National Library of Medicine, multiple research studies have found that poor cleaning of surfaces within health care facilities is a major source of HAIs because of the transmission of microorganisms, like MRSA[1]

Health and Safety

Reusable Cleanroom Apparel and the Contamination Risks

Based on a recent study, the Bacterial Filtration Efficiency (BFE) of reusable cleanroom apparel degrades significantly after the garment has gone through wash and irradiation cycles. This poses a real yet invisible contamination risk to aseptic manufacturing environments.

Health and Safety

Protective Eyewear that Performs and Looks Great

The world of manufacturing is tough on PPE. That’s why KleenGuard’s® Nemesis™ protective eyewear comes in a wide variety of styles for varying light conditions, head sizes and magnification needs.

Health and Safety

Proper Cleanroom Gowning Can Minimize Contamination Risk

Keeping the operator’s dirt and germs out of the sterile cleanroom environment is the main objective of the sterile cleanroom suit. It’s critical for cleanroom operators to select cleanroom suits that provide the highest levels of inherent sterility that can be maintained during the gowning process.

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The Power of KleenGuard® Apparel

Does your PPE power your productivity? In this video we put athletes through a physical workout to test their productivity while wearing PPE. KleenGuard apparel with reflex design is 7.5 times less likely to tear. Human-centric engineering and comfort is what separates KleenGuard protective clothing from other PPE.

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Not All Coveralls Are Cut from the Same Cloth

Think your coverall is tough? Watch this video to see how we test our KleenGuard® A45 coverall with reflex design to make sure they’re durable, and flexible enough to protect workers.

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Looking Ahead with a COVID-19 Crisis Management Leader

As part of Kimberly-Clark Professional’s response to COVID-19, we quickly formed a crisis response team tasked with managing the business through the pandemic and communicating changes to the company. Tracy Doucet was appointed to lead this team.

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KleenGuard® - Perform with Distinction

KleenGuard’s approach to human-centric design starts with the end-user in mind. This video explains how they choose to not only deliver products that are safe, but products that deliver improved performance and productivity.

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Kimtech^® Purple Nitrile^™ Gloves Chemical Breakthrough Put to the Test

Wearing the wrong gloves can increase contamination as well as compromise the quality of your work. This video demonstrates how Kimtech^® Purple Nitrile^™ gloves helps protect the science and the scientist.

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Kimtech's^® Advanced Cleanroom Apparel Keeps Contamination Under Control

When it comes to reducing contamination in the cleanroom you need apparel that can stand up to the challenge. Kimtech’s® sterile single-use cleanroom apparel offers seamless protection when and where it counts every time, guaranteed.

Health and Safety

Keeping Students Safe from the Spread of Germs

Students of all ages need to be healthy and focused so that they can perform their best in school. However, it’s hard for them to be their best in environments that promote the spread of germs.

Health and Safety

Keep Your Employees Healthy and Productive

Having healthy employees improves both productivity and the bottom line. Find out ways to prevent the spread of germs and improve the hygiene of one of the most used places in the office, the restroom.

Customer Experience

How to Solve Your Biggest Restroom Problems

Restrooms can make or break your building’s impression overall. Having clean, well-stocked restrooms is essential to the satisfaction of your tenants and guests. Find out what might be preventing you from maintaining restroom cleanliness and what solutions Kimberly-Clark Professional can provide.

Customer Experience,Productivity and Efficiency

How Smart Restrooms Help Buildings Adapt to Pandemic Disruptions

As the COVID-19 spike driven by the Omicron variant began to diminish in the hard winter of 2022, states across the U.S. started easing up on pandemic control policies. Governors from California to New Jersey announced the end of mask mandates and other restrictions. The public returned to public spaces.

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12 Step Hand Washing Guide

How much do you know about handwashing? These easy-to-follow 12-steps will teach you all you need to make sure your hands are clean.

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Hand Sanitizing Guide

Follow these 8 easy steps to make proper hand sanitizing a habit.

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Hand Hygiene Throughout the Day

Have you considered your hand hygiene throughout your day? With nearly 95% of adults not washing long enough to thoroughly clean the bacteria and germs from their hands, being aware of the many surfaces and objects that are touched in a day can encourage better hygienic behavior among customers and employees.

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Hand Drying Facts

Paper towels are the most hygienic option for hand drying, based on the speed, the degree of dryness, the overall effective removal of bacteria, and the prevention of cross-contamination. The Mayo Clinic and World Health Organization discuss the hygienic efficacy of different methods of hand drying and why paper towels might be more effective in keeping your hands clean.

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Healthcare Germ Hot Spots

Creating a more hygienic health care facility doesn’t stop at the restroom. Targeting “hot spots” with hand and surface hygiene, is a key step toward reducing the spread of germs.

Productivity and Efficiency

Our 5 Major Predictions for the Office of the Future

None of us predicted the abrupt transition to virtual work in 2020. Perhaps even fewer people would have guessed that the great telework experiment would prove overwhelmingly successful.

Productivity and Efficiency

How to Find the Right Glove

Gloves do more than protect you from health and safety hazards. They also help protect your process from contamination and other risks. That’s why choosing the right nitrile glove for your task is crucial.

Health and Safety

Everyday Workplace Hygiene Tips for Tenants

We’re doing all we can to provide a clean environment for you. And if we work together by practicing good hygiene throughout the day, we can make a big difference. Putting these everyday workplace hygiene tips into practice will help create a cleaner and more hygienic workplace environment for us all.