Hand Dryers And Restroom Design By: William Gagnon How hand dryers can offer cleaners relief from common restroom issues. T for more info Visit www.cmmonline.com and type in search keyword: Hand Hygiene . For more information on related products, visit www.cmmonline.com , select DIRECTORY from the main navigation bar, and enter keyword: Dryers . 28 CM/Cleaning & Maintenance Management ® Image courtesy of Cienpies Design/iStockphoto/Thinkstock William Gagnon serves as the vice president of marketing at Excel Dryer Inc., the manufacturer of the original, patented, high-speed, energy-efficient XLERATOR ® hand dryer. He applies over 15 years of industry knowledge and experience to a wide variety of marketing initia-tives that have positioned the XLERATOR ® with its proven effectiveness, performance and customer satisfaction. Learn more about Excel Dryer at www.ExcelDryer.com, e-mail Excel Dryer at [email protected] or call (800) 255-9235. The dirty truth for cleaning and maintenance pro-fessionals is that restrooms play a critical role in the public perception of cleanliness. A recent poll conducted by the Cintas Corpo-ration revealed what contributes to a user’s per-ception of a dirty restroom — 88 percent of those surveyed identified overflowing trashcans and 80 percent identified paper towels and toilet paper left on the floor. Hand dryers have long been an alternative to pa-per towels in public restrooms, and newer models are helping facility maintenance professionals clean up their act. The technological advancements in hand dryer technology has enabled newer models to dry hands up to three times faster while using 80 percent less energy than traditional models. Simply choosing to adopt high-speed and en-ergy-efficient hand dryers, or transforming a facility from paper towels to hand dryers, can help save time, money and the environ-ment. Time Savings From ordering, stocking, distributing and removing waste, paper towels represent a time commitment for both large and small scale cleaning and mainte-nance management operations. Smaller facilities operate with less staff that of-ten cannot keep up with the pace paper towels are used, which can cause the overflowing trash cans and waste on the floor. Larger facilities may have the staff to maintain re-strooms on a daily or even hourly basis, but even that is sometimes not enough. Airports, concert venues and sports stadiums are a few examples where even hourly maintenance routines struggle to keep up with restroom traffic and usage. The use of high-speed hand dryers can result in dra-matic energy savings and reduce the carbon footprint of a facility.
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