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Telephones & Toilets
According to Charles Gerba, professor of microbiology at the University of Arizona, cell phones have up to 10 times the amount of pathogens, that cause nausea and stomach upset, than a toilet seat. One reason he says, is because people are hesitant to clean their cell phones in fear of damaging the electronics inside. If our cell phones harbor this much bacteria due to the lack of cleaning, what does that say about our phones at work or at home. If your janitorial or building services provider does not clean your phones each service you may want to consider changing that. Some providers include verbiage to their scope of services that they clean phones, but you may...
Read MoreHOST Dry Carpet Cleaning: We’ve Got Your Carpets Covered
As any high-traffic business can tell you, keeping carpets clean as hundreds of feet stomp by every day is a next-to-impossible task. Only a professional service with the right equipment can get the job done – an ordinary old vacuum just won’t do. At Lillich Commercial Services, we’ve learned this lesson the hard way; that’s why we integrate the HOST Dry system into our cleaning routine. HOST is a dry carpet cleaning system that follows regular vacuuming with the application of “sponges” directly to carpet fibers. That might sound complicated, but really, it works much like an everyday kitchen sponge – washing and absorbing dirt from your carpet just like a...
Read MoreInfection Control Update
According to the American Journal of Infection Control, April 2012 issue, 591 inpatient health care facilities (all states were represented, except for Alaska and Washington, DC) reported 4,476 MRSA-colonized/infected patients in 67,412 inpatients. MRSA has been prevalent in health care facilities for over 20 years and is now showing up in the common workplace. If your janitorial service/building services contractor is not using some sort of disinfectant/sanitizer, then your workplace has the potential to be harboring this bacteria. For this reason, LILLICH Commercial Services concentrates on not just cleaning the common areas covered by most services, they also focus...
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