CM/Spotlight: Restroom Care Effective Steps To Stop By: Rich Bucher Restroom Germs Properly addressing factors that can make restrooms unsanitary. P Rich Bucher is director of marketing and sales for ITW Professional Brands. ITW Professional Brands manufactures and markets products for indus-trial and institutional hygiene markets. Primary industries and distribution channels are indus-trial MRO, JanSan and food ser-vice. The brand portfolio contains five well-known industry brands including SCRUBS ® pre-moist-ened wipes, Spray Nine ® disinfec-tants and degreasers, DYKEM ® industrial marking products, Dymon ® specialty cleaning products and Atlantic Mills ® disposable food service wipers. For more information, visit www. ITWProfessionalBrands.com. Public restrooms have a reputation for being unsani-tary, germy hotspots. This is because many people do not wash their hands properly and spread germs to highly-touched surfaces like sink faucets, door handles and paper towel dispensers. Shockingly, according to a recent 2013 study by Michigan State University, only 5 percent of restroom for more info Visit www.cmmonline.com and type in search keyword: Restroom Care . For more information on related products, visit www.cmmonline.com , select BUYERS’ GUIDE from the main navigation bar, and enter keyword: Infection Control . Ensuring a facility’s restrooms are clean and sanitary will help with the overall perception of the facil-ity and stop the spread of germs at the source. Image courtesy of Sergey Volkov/iStockphoto/Thinkstock www.cmmonline.com 25
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