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Facility maintenance and management, including integrated cleaning services, are critical for ensuring occupant health, safety, and wellness.

The Role of Integrated Cleaning and Facility Maintenance Services in Ensuring Occupant Health
The rising demand for knowledge workers has led to an increased focus on occupant wellness due to its:

Impact on local communities.

As opposed to conventional window washing, commercial window cleaning services remove soil, acids, chemicals, and contaminants from your windows, frames, ledges, and the surrounding area, resulting in superior outcomes.

The Benefits of Commercial Window Cleaning Services
Professionally cleaned windows afford several benefits to businesses, including:

Improved public perception.

Intense winter storms and advisories across much of the Mid-Western United States underscore the importance of maintaining winter facility cleaning and maintenance protocols to prevent costly structural damage and the transmission of deadly pathogens now and into the Spring.

Electrostatic disinfection significantly increases cleaning outcomes while reducing costs due to demonstrably superior surface coverage and application times when compared to conventional methods.

The Benefits of Electrostatic Disinfection Technology
Electrostatic sprayers result in superior cleaning outcomes when compared to conventional disinfection methods with benefits that include:

A reduction in time needed to thoroughly coat complex surfaces, such as desks, and disinfect extensive complex facilities, such as classrooms and gyms, resulting in faster turn-around times.

The future of facility safety and hygiene will depend on emerging technologies, with a renewed focus on environmental and occupant health and increased operational efficiency, based on long-term sustainability.

The Future of Facility Cleaning and Hygiene
Facility cleaning has experienced a monumental shift in focus and importance over the last two years due to fallout from the pandemic that resulted in an increased awareness of the environmental impact posed by humanity, resulting in:

Increased demand for environmental stewardship by government organizations and businesses.

High touch-point cleaning and disinfection services--sanitizing commonly touched facility surfaces--is a critical component of a scientifically backed health-based janitorial program.

The Role of Fomites in Disease Transmission
Fomites are high-touch facility surfaces that function as reservoirs for pathogens and pathogenic bacteria.

Dubbed the Great Resignation--many employees across a broad range of industries are leaving their former employers for greener pastures in the pursuit of more fulfilling employment with organizations that align with their value system.

The Great Resignation and the New Cultural Norm of Environmental Hygiene and Sustainability
2021 will be remembered for many things.

Ultraviolet Germicidal Irradiation (UVGI) is an emerging technology that leverages ultraviolet light to rapidly kill pathogens, bacteria, and fungal organisms on surfaces without the use of dangerous chemicals.

Disinfecting With Ultraviolet Light
Ultraviolet light has been employed in healthcare settings for more than 100 years, beginning with the use of photobiomodulation to combat lupus vulgaris--a mycobacterium tuberculosis skin infection.

Occupant health is likely the single most critical component contributing to the success of any organization and corresponds directly to facility cleanliness and environmental quality.

Occupant Health Critical to Workplace Success
Occupant health has a direct impact on business costs and productivity.

Green cleaned schools mean healthier students, fewer abscesses, better grades, and an increased likelihood of graduation.

Green Cleaned Classrooms Mean Healthier Students
Cleaning reduces the presence of soil, pathogens, dangerous microbes, and allergens.