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Healthy Hands for a Healthy School Year
7/27/2021
By David Miller
Marketing Director – Omnichannel, GOJO Industries
As we enter the back half of summer break, many families and teachers are looking ahead to the fall and the approach of another school year. Planning often begins with back-to-school shopping to stock up on items they’ll need to complete the school year successfully. This year, many shopping lists will include items to help prioritize healthy habits in the classroom – particularly since public health experts are concerned there may be an increased number of germs circulating this winter. With many children returning to in-person learning for the first time in a long time, help ease their adjustment and set them up for successful school year by reinforcing healthy habits, like hand hygiene.
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Wherever You Go, Re-Engage Life Confidently with PURELL Hand Sanitizer
6/21/2021
By Sarah Kelley
Total Solutions Senior Manager - Sanitizer, GOJO Industries
Over the course of the pandemic, hand hygiene habits changed forever. People are now more concerned about keeping their hands clean since it’s the best way to kill germs that may cause illness. As vaccination rates increase and many people are beginning to return to public life, it’s more important than ever to keep a small, portable hand sanitizer solution with you for when soap and water may not be close and convenient.
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Dry Hands? Don’t Blame Your Hand Sanitizer
6/7/2021
By Kristen Green
Clinical Scientist, GOJO Industries
Your hands are valuable tools. Like any instrument, there is maintenance and upkeep required to ensure proper functioning. This pandemic has made everyone focus more on cleaning their hands – and that is excellent – but because of all that extra cleaning, some may be experiencing dry, cracked hands and blaming it on their hand sanitizer. However, there are many causes and solutions to dry hands.
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Is Your School’s Hand Sanitizer Safe? Is It Being Used?
6/1/2021
By Dawn Yeomans, Ph.D.
Research Principal, GOJO Industries
Also By Amanda Kaye
Market Development Director, GOJO Industries
Is your school sitting on a glut of hand sanitizer purchased at the height of the pandemic? If you answered “yes” to this question, you are not alone. Most school districts have stocks of hand sanitizer, so believe they’re covered for a safe return to in-person learning. This may be true, however many of the products that schools stocked up on during the pandemic are not safe or effective. Additionally, many schools are “topping off containers” of alcohol-based hand sanitizer, which according to the CDC, poses a potential safety risk, such as inadvertent contamination or reduced efficacy due to alcohol evaporation.
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Packing Up for Summer Travel Season
5/24/2021
By Kristen Green
Clinical Scientist, GOJO Industries
Memorial Day weekend traditionally marks the start of summer travel season. After many long months stuck at home, unable to visit family and friends, we are all dreaming of vacations, extended weekends away from home, or short road trips to visit loved ones. With recent guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) that it is safe to travel domestically if you've been fully vaccinated against COVID-19, some of those dreams are coming true. However, the CDC currently still advises delaying travel if you are not fully vaccinated.
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Let’s Celebrate World Hand Hygiene Day
4/30/2021
By Jim Arbogast, Ph.D.
Hygiene Sciences and Public Health Advancements Vice President, GOJO Industries
Every year on May 5th, hospitals around the globe join the World Health Organization (WHO) to celebrate World Hand Hygiene Day and raise awareness for the importance of hand hygiene. Public health organizations around the globe join this celebration, including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and Health Canada.
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Dispensers 101
4/12/2021
By Stephen Marks
Former Total Solutions Senior Director, GOJO Industries
With many businesses working around the clock to open safely and return to some form of a “new normal,” we are seeing many looking to offer PURELL® Hand Sanitizer for the first time as part of that effort. For many businesses, the most appropriate solution may be through a dispensing system. However, the world of dispensing can be overwhelming and confusing for someone offering it for the first time, so we are here to help simplify this for you.
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Raising Awareness During National Poison Prevention Week
3/22/2021
By Sheila Goertemoeller, PharmD, DABAT, ICPS
Clinical Toxicologist & Pharmacist, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Drug and Poison Information Center
National Poison Prevention Week is celebrated the third week of March every year and is a good reminder of the actions we can take to ensure the safe use of products at home. The U.S. Congress established the recognition week in 1961 to focus national attention on the dangers of poisonings and how to prevent them. According to the American Association of Poison Control Centers, 93 percent of exposures happen at home, and 45 percent of exposures involve children 0 to 5 years of age.
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Understanding the Risks Associated with Hand Sanitizer Refilling
2/1/2021
By Antonio Quiñones-Rivera, Ph.D.
Product Safety and Sustainability Senior Manager, GOJO Industries
Also By Chip Manuel, Ph.D.
Food Safety Science Advisor, GOJO Industries
Imagine you are at a breakfast buffet at a hotel (the pandemic is over), and you see a simple glass bottle of milk for your use, with no markings. You pour some milk on your cereal and splash a bit into your coffee. Later in the day, you learn that each morning the serving staff 'tops off' that bottle with milk from other containers, without ever emptying it or washing it. Over the course of weeks, with customers taking many, many milk servings from that bottle, the staff kept topping it off. How would you feel about the milk that you had been served that morning? And the next morning, would you again put milk from that bottle on your cereal?
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Holiday Celebrations Call for Clean Hands and Surfaces
11/23/2020
By Kristen Green
Clinical Scientist, GOJO Industries
As colder weather arrives, we’re all spending more time indoors. Since we’ve already spent so much extra time at home this year, we’ve already cleaned out our closets, dusted off our bookshelves, and maybe even tackled that scary storage area in your basement. As winter approaches and we turn our focus to our holiday traditions, we shouldn’t forget some steps to keep germs – tiny bacteria that can make you sick – out of your home and off your holiday dining table.
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