The Association for the Health Care Environment (AHE) recently released the COVID-19 EVS Cleaning Essentials Refresher Training Toolkit to help front-line EVS staff combat SARS-CoV-2. If you are a member of AHE, please click on the button below to view information on the following topics. Training topics include: The Chain of Infection, including Mode of[…]tell me more
EXECUTIVE OVERVIEW: Eight laundered microfiber flat mops and one single-use microfiber flat mop were photographed at 20X’s, 40X’s using a 3D stereo microscope and 1,000X’s using a Scanning Electronic Microscope, SEM. The laundered mops demonstrated significant contamination and microfiber degradation. In some instances, the microfiber in no longer effective since it is shown to be[…]tell me more
Geerpres® researchers, Jack McGurk and Dave Harry, contribute their Adventex® Single-use mop findings in the recent CMM article Single-Use Microfiber Mops Usher In Third Wave of Change in Floor Care . Thomas W. Stewart sparked the first wave of change in floor cleaning when he patented the string mop in 1893. His invention allowed floor[…]tell me more
The Cleaning Industry Research Institute (CIRI) will hold its 2019 CIRI Science Symposium on July 15-17 at Miami University in Oxford, OH. The theme for the 2019 symposium is “Connecting Research to Practice.” David Harry will present research on the Microbiological Findings of Laundered Microfiber Mops as documented his case study – From the Floor[…]tell me more
A Muskegon manufacturer unknowingly designed the “perfect” tool for a nonprofit program that’s deploying in California and Chicago. Muskegon-based Geerpres, a maker of health care and cleaning industry solutions, has a product called the Enterprise EVS Modular Cart that was designed to be configurable for various cleaning protocols in health care. The Backyard Experience, a[…]tell me more
