When you're away from home, often a sink isn't readily accessible to clean your hands before or after those key everyday moments, like before eating or after pumping gas. Over the past two years, many business owners and facility operators began offering hand sanitizer to help make their patrons, employees, and guests feel safe while they're visiting. Now, 84% of people expect hand sanitizer to be offered in public places.*
Not just any dispenser will do in challenging environments
While access to hand hygiene is more important than ever before, the problem is that most traditional dispensing solutions are generally designed for indoor settings. If you'd like to offer hand sanitizer to guests or customers in an outdoor setting, that dispenser may frequently break because it wasn't designed to be exposed to the elements or the wear-and-tear of a demanding high-traffic environment. Here are some things to consider when choosing dispensers for your facility:
- Offer Durability: Most traditional dispensers are designed for indoor settings; they may not offer the durability you need for a high-traffic area like a gas station forecourt, public bus, or subway car. Or they may not be able to withstand the extreme temperatures or weather conditions of an outdoor setting like a public park or amusement park. Look for a brand with a durable design that is easy to refill and requires less maintenance for your already busy staff.
- Maintain Cost-Efficiency: If you install new dispensers, but they break after one winter, you'll have the extra costs of maintenance, labor, or even replacement.
- Take Credit: You get credit for your hard work taking care of guests and patrons when they reach for a dispenser, and it provides what they're expecting, a quality hand sanitizer that will leave their hands feeling clean again. On the flip side, if they reach for a dispenser and the lever is broken, or if it's corroded or looks vandalized, it may give them second thoughts about using it. That experience may leave them with a poor impression of the facility or business, so it's in a business's best interests to keep dispensers operational and to offer quality hand sanitizer they'll enjoy using.
New all-weather dispenser performs in extreme weather and high-traffic settings
GOJO recently launched the PURELL® CS4 All-Weather Dispensing System that addresses these pain points. In environments too harsh to place traditional dispensers or where dispenser vandalism is high, the PURELL® CS4 All-Weather Dispensing System provides reliable access to hand sanitizer or hand soap through its durable design that is:
- Made of engineered resin that is over three times stronger than materials used in most dispensers1
- Water-resistant to help keep the rain out2
- Resistant to UV fading thanks to special graphite paint3
- Able to maintain its performance and appearance in a wide range of extreme conditions and temperatures (-40°F - 122°F)3
- Designed to deter vandalism or refill theft
- Easier to see when a refill is needed thanks to a large and durable sight window – this also helps reduce labor and maintenance costs
- Designed to use the same refill as our traditional CS4 soap and sanitizer dispenser so that the same sanitary-sealed refills can be used throughout the facility
Ever since GOJO co-founder Jerry Lippman invented the world's first portion-controlled hand cleaner dispenser in 1952, GOJO has relentlessly advanced dispensing system design and function. So, we put this new dispenser through over 5,400 hours of internal testing, third-party, and live field testing to prove it can survive in the elements.
GOJO designed this dispenser to succeed where many traditional dispensers won't, including the following environments:
- Convenience Stores: fuel stations, air pumps, car cleaning stations, restrooms, store/kiosk entrance
- Mass Transit (e.g., commuter trains, subways, bus lines): station or vehicle entry and exit points (e.g., subway platform pillars), fencing near ticket lines, escalator exit points, etc.
- Public Venues (e.g., public parks, amusement parks, stadiums, outdoor retail): walkway posts and streetlights, near wastebaskets, facility entrances, parking lots (near metered stations), restrooms (indoor or portable)
- K-12 Schools or Higher Education: high-traffic outdoor areas such as outdoor walkways and quads, outdoor dining, stadiums, gyms, restrooms, playgrounds, bus ramps, and other pain point locations in a school
- Manufacturing and Industrial Restrooms
- Restaurant Outdoor Dining, Food Trucks, and Stands
- Drive-Up/Through Food Service, Banks, Movies, and other Service Providers
- Non-Temperature-Controlled Indoor Environments such as storage units, automotive repair garages, and parking garages
- Portable Restrooms
Businesses and government entities can now purchase the PURELL® CS4 All-Weather Dispensing System across the United States. Interested customers should visit https://www.gojo.com/en/Product/5524-01 for the hand sanitizer system and https://www.gojo.com/en/Product/5534-01 for the hand soap system, or contact their GOJO distributor. For more info on the PURELL® CS4 All-Weather Dispensing System go to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tyebp9Vi30g. If you're just starting to research dispensers for your facility, start with this blog: "Dispensers 101."