Avoid a Dirty Restroom with Cleaning Tips from Cintas
February 23 2021 - 8:00AM
Business Wire
According to a study in Applied and Environmental Microbiology,
77,000 distinct types of bacteria and viruses exist in restrooms1.
With more people returning to public facilities and a heightened
focus on cleanliness, Cintas Corporation (NASDAQ: CTAS) offers five
essential tips for keeping restrooms sanitary.
“Restrooms are high-traffic areas that can pose significant
risks for germ transmission,” said John Engel, Director of
Marketing, Cintas. “Maintaining high restroom hygiene standards is
essential to help reduce the spread of germs and to meet customers’
heightened expectations of cleanliness.”
Top tips for keeping restrooms sanitized include:
- Using high-pressure cleaners and vacuum extraction:
Conducting high-pressure cleaning that removes buildup not easily
reached by brushes is important when sanitizing floors, toilets,
urinals, and restroom partitions. While high-pressure cleaning
removes soil and dirt from surfaces, vacuum extraction removes the
contaminants from the restroom, preventing cross contamination and
odor-causing bacteria.
- Installing touchless soap, sanitizer and paper towel
dispensers: To help avoid spreading germs on high-touch
surfaces throughout a facility, consider installing touchless
dispensers. Dispensers without touchless features may harbor more
bacteria and viruses. Replace air dryers with paper towel
dispensers as manual and touch-free air dryers are known to spread
germs throughout restrooms.2
- Keeping supplies stocked: A lack of restroom supplies
can lead to a dirty restroom and is one of the most common customer
complaints. Consider using innovative soap and/or paper towel
dispensers that dispense just enough product at a time to minimize
wasted resources and over consumption.
- Increasing cleaning frequency: High-traffic areas should
be cleaned more frequently. Increasing frequency can help mitigate
the spread of germs on surfaces such as doorknobs, faucets, toilet
handles, dispensers and handicap grabrails.
- Cleaning before disinfecting: For better disinfecting
results, it’s important to clean first. Cleaning decreases dirt and
germs on surfaces while disinfecting kills or inactivates the
germs. When cleaning and disinfecting, it’s critical to follow a
product’s manufacturer’s instructions around contact time and
dilution to achieve the best results.
For more information, visit cintas.com/facilityservices.
About Cintas Corporation
Cintas Corporation helps more than one million businesses of all
types and sizes get Ready™ to open their doors with
confidence every day by providing a wide range of products and
services that enhance our customers’ image and help keep their
facilities and employees clean, safe and looking their best. With
products and services including uniforms, mats, mops, restroom
supplies, first aid and safety products, fire extinguishers and
testing, and safety and compliance training, Cintas helps customers
get Ready for the Workday®. Headquartered in Cincinnati,
Cintas is a publicly held Fortune 500 company traded over the
Nasdaq Global Select Market under the symbol CTAS and is a
component of both the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index and
Nasdaq-100 Index.
1 Ecological Succession and Viability of Human-Associated
Microbiota on Restroom Surfaces Sean M. Gibbons, Tara Schwartz,
Jennifer Fouquier, Michelle Mitchell, Naseer Sangwan, Jack A.
Gilbert, Scott T. Kelley, Applied and Environmental Microbiology
Jan 2015, 81 (2) 765-773; DOI: 10.1128/AEM.03117-14 2
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2018/04/12/hand-dryers-suck-bathroom-bacteria-and-blow-them-all-over-your-hands-study-finds/511723002/
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