INFECTION CONTROL & CLEANING FOR HEALTH
Select this Bloodborne Pathogens Annual Review presentation, or one of many others below.
This page includes a toolbox for cleaning departments, nurses and environmental hygiene personnel on a variety of hygiene topics. The programs and behavior modification posters are all aimed at reducing student absenteeism, improving cleaning methodologies and providing a healthier environment.
Select this Bloodborne Pathogens Annual Review presentation, or one of many others below.
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CLEANING FOR HEALTH PRESENTATIONS (Click for files)
Educating staff, students, employees and building occupants about cross-contamination and current cleaning for health topics helps reduce illness and absenteeism, reduce insurance claims and helps avoid lost productivity. -
MODIFY BEHAVIOR WITH POSTERS & SIGNS (Click for files)
Behavior modification is an important and often overlooked step in the process of changing health through cleaning. -
Effect of Hand Sanitizer on Elementary School Absenteeism
(55K)STUDY BRIEF - This one-page summary, based on hundreds of students in several states, shows how a very specific regimen of handwashing and hand sanitizing can reduce illness and absenteeism significantly. -
Handwashing and Cross-Contamination, inside
(2.4M)BROCHURE - Directed at high school and campus students. -
Handwashing and Cross-Contamination, outside
(1.4M)BROCHURE - Goes with brochure above. -
K-6 Handwashing and Cross-Contamination, inside
(2.2M)BROCHURE - Helps kids in K-6 understand the importance of behavior changes to stay healthy. Can go home for discussion with parents. (INSIDE OF BROCHURE BELOW) -
K-6 Handwashing and Cross-Contamination, outside
(1.2M)BROCHURE - Outside of brochure above. -
Living with MRSA
(472K)GUIDE FOR STUDENTS OR STAFF - Do you have students with active MRSA cases? This guide helps de-stigmatize the illness through education. Hygiene tips and guidelines for school attendance are included. -
The Petrie Dish Doesn't Lie
(101K)EDUCATIONAL FLIER - See the graphic results of the growout from a hospital intern's hand pressed against agar in a petrie dish. This intern's habits resulted in infecting a patient at the VA Hospital with MRSA. From an excerpt of the New England Journal of Medicine. -
Total Response Procedures
(435K)GUIDE - Cleaning for health is not an accident. New methods custodians did not even think of just a few years ago that should now be part of keeping every student healthier and at school more days. 8.5"x11 -
Visualizing the pH scale
(244K)GUIDE FOR STUDENTS - Acid or base? The relative pH factor effects a wide range of outcomes from cleaning to science experiments. But how do you visualize the scale? This one-page, color-coded guide card may help.