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The Basics — What Is It And Where It Is Found?   

First discovered in 1961, these MRSA infections are fiercely resistant to usually reliable beta antibiotics such as methicillin, oxacillin, penicillin and amoxicillin. In rare cases, mild skin infections featuring boils or pimples can transform lactams into necrotizing fasciitis (“flesh eating”) bacterial infections that can spread with horrifying speed and result in amputations or death.     

Currently, the majority of MRSA cases are in Healthcare settings. According to an October 2007 study published in “The Journal of the American Medical Association” (JAMA), approximately 85% of invasive MRSA infections occur in these environments, while 14% are categorized as community-associated (CA-MRSA) infections, or in those individuals lacking the risk factors associated with healthcare environments. As outlined in a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) report, more individuals died from MRSA in 2005 than from AIDS.    

Transmission and Vulnerability     

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USING A CARPET SPOTTER TO IMPROVE CARPET CLEANING 

The following is an overview of training that explains the ways that you can use a carpet spotter to improve your overall carpet cleaning success. Carpet cleaning is harder than it looks because we have all experienced two of the most common problems and wonder what is going on.  It is easier than you think because the reason for the problems is straightforward. 

The three problems we encounter time after time are:

1. You had a spot and thought you cleaned it up yesterday.  Today, that same spot is now two or three times larger and even more noticeable.
2. You cleaned your carpet with an extractor last night and it looked pretty good.  This morning there are spots here, there, and everywhere.
3. I cleaned the carpet last night and it does not look as good as I think it should

 If you have experienced either of these problems, you know how frustrating they can be.  But, more importantly, we can deal with them to minimize your frustration.

 The Spot That Grows

There are a number of different carpet spotters – we use different cleaning chemicals to clean different types of soil.  For instance, there are spotters that are most effective against beverages (usually referred to as Tannin Spotters) and there are spotters more effective against food-based soil (usually referred to as Enzyme Spotters).  Spotting kits are available that include all the necessary chemicals to remove any type of spot with use instructions. In addition, there are extracting compounds, pre-sprays, and rinses. 

For our purposes here, we are presuming that you are using the right spotting product – we just want you to understand why the spot returns bigger than ever.

Imagine spilling some coffee.  It is now seeping into the carpet until it hits the impervious carpet backing or the hard floor that the carpet was laid on.   The carpet fibers are soaked wet and there is a pool of coffee at the bottom of the spot. You do the right thing.  You blot the spot and absorb as much of the coffee as possible.  Now you some of your carpet spotter designed for coffee spills and the spot looks ok.  Maybe, you even use a carpet spotter and quickly rinsed the spot.

If you are typical, when you come back the next day, the spot is still there and it is bigger than when you started.  This happens because the coffee lying under the spill on top of the carpet has spread out when it hit the carpet backing.  Maybe it is two-inch spot on top but it is more likely a five-inch pool underneath.

As the carpet fibers dry from the top down, the coffee wicks up the carpet fibers and they cover the entire five-inch pool – not just the two-inch spill.  Doing a quick rinse with a carpet spotter usually aggravates the problem by turning the five-inch pool into an eight-inch pool.

The solution is straightforward and it involves the carpet spotter.  The entire pool of coffee lying under the carpet needs to be extracted.  To do this, all you need to do is keep saturating the spot and sucking it up until the rinse water is coming back clear.  Once the water is coming back clear, the pool of coffee is gone and when the carpet dries, there is nothing to wick back up to make the spot return.

Extracted Last Night and Spotty This Morning

This problem is closely related to the growing spot problem – just on a larger scale.  When you extract a carpet, you get it wet.  It all goes back to those pools of coffee and such that are lying under the carpet.   This time, they are dry and you are going to rewet them with the extractor.  The same thing that happened when you did the quick pass with the carpet spotter will happen when you extract the carpet. 

The spots on the carpet tell us that there is something in or under the carpet.  When we wet it without pulling all of it out of the carpet, the carpet will dry and the dirty water will wick to the surface making another spot.  There are a few ways to handle this – the right way and the cosmetic way.

The right way is to pre-treat the spots and attempt to completely remove any of the spill that has pooled and dried under the carpet.  This can be done with your carpet spotter or with your extraction machine wand.  The cosmetic way is to come back after you extract and run a bonnet over the areas that have spotted.  This will remove the surface dirt and make it appear that the carpet is clean.

Of course, there is another problem that occurs.  Often, spots will show up where there was no indication of a spill in the first place.  This happens because the original spill or spot was surface cleaned but not thoroughly cleaned.  If a spill is completely dry and we successfully clean the carpet surface with a little chemical, we are setting ourselves up for a bigger problem when we do a full extraction.  That spot will come back bigger than ever.  This happens all the time.  At this point, there are two choices – remove the source of the spot with the carpet spotter or bonnet it to clean the surface knowing it will eventually come back again.

Cleaned The Carpet But It Doesn’t Look As Good As It Should

Sometimes dirty carpet it is not what it seems.  Maybe it is:

1. Dirty and needs to be cleaned
2. Full of detergent and needs to be rinsed out
3. Alkaline as a result of too much cleaning and needs to be neutralized
4. Worn out and in need of replacement

Using a carpet spotter, a few cleaning products, and 10 minutes can tell us a lot.  To determine what you are really facing and needs to be done – just put some warm water in the carpet spotter and do some testing.  Then you will know what you need to be doing.

The first test I run is to use the carpet spotter and no chemicals at all.  If you can rinse an area repeatedly and generate soapsuds, your carpet probably has detergent in it – this is residue left from prior cleanings.  Detergent in the carpet increases the speed of resoiling so the carpet gets dirty more quickly.  It this is the case, you do not need to add more detergent to the carpet – you can extract with hot water or use a rinse agent – in either case, the idea is to get the detergent out of the carpet.

The second test I run is to use one of my general purpose spotters and work some into the carpet – then I rinse the carpet with the warm water in the carpet spotter.  This tells me if the carpet is in fact dirty and if cleaning it will produce any results.  If the first test came up empty and the second test generates results, we know the carpet needs to be cleaned.

The third test I run is to use a carpet rinse or neutralizer to determine if the carpet has a condition know as “browning.”  If neither of the other tests generated the result I was looking for, it is possible that the carpet has become alkaline from prior cleanings and has lost its luster.  Using a rinse agent which is acidic in nature will neutralize the alkalinity and restore the carpet.  To perform this test, spray a diluted mixture of carpet rinse onto the carpet, work it in, and remove it with the warm water in the carpet spotter.  If the carpet brightens noticeably, the carpet needs to be extracted using a neutralizer.

Finally, it none of the tests have generated any results – it is probably time to replace the carpet.

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Natural Rubber & Nitrile Raw Material Trends

Both materials are key components in the manufactur of unsupported, dipped and coated liquid and chemical resistent gloves.  These trends will affect the pricing of those categories of gloves. 

Natural Rubber: Since January, raw material costs have increased by 60%, due to high demand for rubber in the global vehicle industry, particularly in China, as well as reduced production levels. Raw material costs are 22.5% higher as compared to November 2008.A December 1 (2009) report indicated rubber output in Thailand, Indonesia and Malaysia had dropped more than 6% in 2009 after unusually heavy rains caused flooding. Some reports peg the decrease at more than 10%, causing speculation on a possible shortage in the early months of 2010, which could drive costs up by as much as another 20-30%. Supplies are likely to shrink further early next year during the dry wintering season in Thailand, the world’s largest producer, as trees shed leaves and latex output falls.

Source: Malaysian Rubber Board’s Price Index report (http://www2.lgm.gov.my/mre/YearlyAvg.aspx) average Dry Kg Bulk Latex, converted to USD

NITRILE Butadiene NBR: The cost of nitrile latex is mainly driven by the increase in butadiene, an important industrial chemical used as a monomer in the production of synthetic rubber. It makes up approximately 70% of the total materials cost of nitrile latex. The cost of butadiene has increased by 221% from January to October (2009), and with the weakened dollar, the increase has been dramatically exacerbated. According to ICIS, the butadiene market shows no indications of making a recovery in the near future.

Below please find a chart to visually depict this increase. Source: ICIS

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Frequently Asked Hard Floor Care Questions 

Why do we put floor finish on a floor?

Hard floor care has two objectives.  One is to protect the floor surface.  The other is to enhance the appearance of the floor. The key to any floor care program is to keep the floor as clean as possible.  Time spent in cleaning the floor will be time saved in repairing damage done to the floor by dirt. Daily and periodic maintenance of the floor consists of dust mopping, damp mopping, scrubbing, recoating, spray buffing and burnishing. Burnishing is a critical step in keeping your surface in top shape.  Burnishing hardens the finish and smoothes the surface which makes daily cleaning easier. A program of periodic deep scrubbing and recoating will prolong the life of the finish and prevent the more labor intense stripping operation.

 Why do floors with finish on them shine?

The shine on a floor is due to the reflection of light from its smooth surface.  Think of a mirror. In their natural state, floor surfaces are full of microscopic scratches.  These scratches absorb some light and do not reflect the remaining light cleanly.  This results in a dull – less reflective surface.  As a freshly finished floor ages and is not maintained, it also becomes scratched and reflects less and less light – making it appear dull.

What is the difference between Sealer and Finish?

Sealers prepare the floor by providing a better base for the finish.  It is designed to fill scratches and stick to surfaces better than floor finish. Generally speaking you will only need a sealer on a floor that is in worse shape than most floors.   For instance it shows excessive wear or is severely scratched. Most of the floor finishes manufactured today combine the features of Sealer and Finish – generally speaking, it is not necessary to use a Sealer and then a Finish.  There are specialty sealers for specific hard to coat surfaces such as terrazzo and concrete.

 Why are there different kinds of floor finish?

Floor finishes are designed to protect that floor and respond to the type of maintenance that you are performing on the floor. For instance, we are all familiar with the wet floor look that many grocery stores have.  This finish is much different than one you would put down and clean when needed and then eventually strip and replace.

Finishes are generally designed around maintenance programs that consist of little or no maintenance, low speed gloss restoration (buffing with equipment that usually runs 175 rpm), high speed gloss restoration (burnishing with equipment that runs 1000 to 1500 rpm)), and ultra high speed gloss restoration (burnishing with equipment that runs over 1500 rpm).   The key determining factors in selecting a finish is the traffic on the surface, burnishing frequency and type of burnishing equipment used.

The key characteristics of a floor finish are:

1. Hardness – Durability
2. Initial Shine
3. Reparability – Response to burnishing & restoration
4. Difficulty in Stripping

There is a trade off amongst these key factors.  In a perfect world you could get a very hard and durable finish that is easy to restore and strip.  Currently, there is no such finish.  A high traffic floor such as a super market requires a floor finish that can be burnished nightly and can be restored frequently and easily without the finish getting brittle or discolored. A church with relatively less traffic and resources to burnish the floor needs a very hard durable finish that will hold up between infrequent burnishes.

What does the term solids mean – for instance a 25% solids finish?

The term solid refers to the amount of finish that is left on the floor after it has dried.  For instance, in a 25% solids floor finish, 75% of the solution is a carrying solution that allows you to put the finish down and levels the solution but will evaporate as the floor dries.  The solid content of the finish does not indicate the quality or characteristics of the finish. A 25% solids finish has 25% more solids than a 20% solids floor finish.  As a result, the cost of the 25% solids should be approximately 25% higher than a 20% floor finish.

How many coats of floor finish should I put down? 

Understanding that finish is intended to protect the floor and enhance its appearance – the answer is “it depends.”  A floor that will get little or no foot traffic will need less than one that receives considerable foot traffic.  One that experiences harsh chemicals and deicers will need more than one that does not. 

One rule of thumb is that a typical floor should receive 100% coverage.  That means that you should determine the amount of solids that a floor finish contains and divide it into 100.  For instance, if you are using a 20% solids floor finish, you would typically use 5 coats – a 25% finish would be 4 coats, and so on.

In any case, you should always put down enough coats of finish so that you can experience your normal wear and still be able to scrub the floor and have a base of finish to build on – that will save you time and money because you will not need to strip the floor as often.

How much floor finish do I need?

Every finish will have a square foot per gallon coverage rate.  Most finish range from 2000 sq ft per gallon to 3000 sq ft per gallon.  The condition of the floor will affect the amount of coverage.  Worn and porous floors will use more finish than non porous and newer surfaces.  Less finish will penetrate the surface and it will take less coats to get the desired shine.  A general rule of thumb is that you need a minimum of 3 coats on any surface and gloss or shine usually reaches a maximum after 6 coats.  Do not put down more than 3 coats in one day.

What are the different floor maintenance activities?

There are seven typical maintenance activities that are performed but it is important to remember that all of the activities have one thing in common.  Before doing any maintenance to a floor, that floor should be cleaned with a dust mop to remove any loose dirt or grit that could cause additional scratching to the finish or the floor itself.

 The seven typical maintenance activities are:

Neutral Clean – Removes surface dirt without destroying any of the finish
Clean and Restore – Removes surface dirt without destroying the finish and leaves a film that prepares the surface for Burnishing
Buffing – Low Speed Gloss Restoring
Burnishing-  High Speed Gloss Restoring
Scrub – Cleans the floor by removing the top layer of finish and prepares the floor for additional costs of finish
Recoat – Applies top coat(s) of finish to floor after it has been scrubbed
Strip – Removes all finish and prepares floor to receive floor finish.

What is the difference between Buffing and Burnishing?

Often, these terms are used interchangeably but they represent two entirely different types of floor maintenance.  It is important to use them correctly because they combine different chemicals, equipment, and pads.

Buffing is low speed gloss restoration and uses a 175 rpm floor machine, a red floor pad, and spray buff.  A floor machine is the same piece of equipment that you might use to strip the floor or scrub the floor.  It goes side to side when you operate it.  Generally speaking a floor machine will have the motor in the middle of it.

Burnishing is high speed gloss restoration and uses both electric and propane operated machines, various color pads, and a restorer.  A burnisher operates at a much higher rpm than a floor machine.  They operate in a straight line rather than going side to side.  The pads vary in color depending upon the type of finish and amount of finish that is on the floor.

What do the colors of floor pads mean?

Floor pads have different colors because they do different things to the floor.  Generally speaking, the darker the pad is the more aggressive it will be.  An overview of pad colors is as follows: 

Black Pads are used for stripping,  There are two varieties, regular and high productivity.   The “hi-pro” are more aggressive and will remove finish more quickly.
Green and Blue Pads are used for scrubbing.  They will remove the top coat of finish and are used to prepare the floor for additional coats of finish.
Red Pads are used for daily cleaning of the floor and for applying spray buff with floor machines.
White Pads are used for mild scrubbing of a floor and to polish floors with poor bases of floor finish. 
Natural (Hair) Pads are used for burnishing floors with high speed equipment
Pink Pads are used for burnishing and are designed to more effective in the removal of scuff marks

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MOLD RELEASE

Mold release is most simply PAM for plastic molding.  Mold release is applied to the plastic injection mold so the part will easily fall out of the die without sticking.  If plastic parts stick to the mold and must be removed, the productivity of the machine is negatively impacted.  There are some basic questions that must be answered to select the proper Mold release;

1. What type of plastic is being used?
2. Is the part going to be painted?
3. Is the part going to be used in a food application?
4. Is the part going to be used in a medical application?
5. Does the part and molding process require frequent use of a release?

Take the survey online to get the recommended mold release that meets your requirements.   SURVEY  DOCUMENT

MOLD CLEANERS

Mold cleaners are used to clean the mold to prevent resin/grease build up on the mold.  Contamination on the mold can be transerred to the surface of the part causing quality issues and rework.  Mold cleaners are also used prior to storing the dies and prior to application of mold rust protection.  They are also used prior to putting a mold back into production to remove rust preventative.  Key questions to ask to choose the right mold cleaner

1. Plastic being cleaned
2. In process cleaning or bench cleaning
3. Temperature of the mold

Selecting the correct mold cleaner.  DOCUMENT

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US nursing homes pushed to brink: fund cuts, recession force layoffs, cutbacks, closings

• By Dave Collins, Associated Press Writer
• Sunday October 4, 2009

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — The nation’s nursing homes are perilously close to laying off workers, cutting services — possibly even closing — because of a perfect storm wallop from the recession and deep federal and state government spending cuts, industry experts say.

A Medicare rate adjustment that cuts an estimated $16 billion in nursing home funding over the next 10 years was enacted at week’s end by the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services — on top of state-level cuts or flat-funding that already had the industry reeling.

And Congress is debating slashing billions more in Medicare funding as part of health care reform.

Add it all up, and the nursing home industry is headed for a crisis, industry officials say.

“We can foresee the possibility of nursing homes having to close their doors,” said David Hebert, a senior vice president at the American Health Care Association. “I certainly foresee that we’ll have to let staff go.”

The funding crisis comes as the nation’s baby boomers age ever closer toward needing nursing home care. The nation’s 16,000 nursing homes housed 1.85 million people last year, up from 1.79 million in 2007, U.S. Census Bureau figures show.

Already this year, 24 states have cut funding for nursing home care and other health services needed by low-income people who are elderly or disabled, according to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, a nonprofit research firm based in Washington, D.C.

Some facilities are now closed because of money problems — including four in Connecticut — and others have laid off workers because of what industry officials say are inadequate Medicaid reimbursement rates. Medicare cuts are troubling, they say, because the higher Medicare reimbursements have been used to compensate for the lower Medicaid rates.

In Griswold, Conn., the community’s only nursing home shut down earlier this year because of rising costs and an inability to pay for $4.9 million in needed renovations for the 90-bed facility.

“A 92-year-old woman was screaming and crying as she was loaded into the ambulance, saying ‘This is my home,’” Griswold First Selectman Philip Anthony said. His 88-year-old mother was a resident of the same home at the time.

Anthony sought and found a new facility for his mother, but she died of pneumonia before the Griswold Health and Rehabilitation Center closed in the spring.

“To be hit with a sudden and deliberate closure like this, it just drained the heart right out of you,” Anthony said.

Connecticut Gov. M. Jodi Rell and state lawmakers gave no Medicaid rate increases to nursing homes in the state last fiscal year and kept the funding flat for the next two years.

The Griswold home was one of four nursing homes in the state that have closed since December because of financial problems, a higher rate than usual, said Deborah Chernoff, a spokeswoman for District 1199 of the New England Health Care Employees Union in Connecticut, which represents more than 20,000 health care workers in the state.

“We’re really teetering on the edge of what we see as the collapse of the long-term care system,” she said.

Chernoff said many of Connecticut’s 240 or so nursing homes have been reducing workers’ hours to deal with money problems, while two are in bankruptcy now.

Also this year across the country:

– The Motion Picture & Television Fund said in January it would close a hospital and nursing home in Woodland Hills, Calif., founded to care for actors and other entertainment industry workers, because of financial losses.

– The Westchester Medical Center in suburban New York said it would close a nursing home and cut 400 jobs to deal with Medicaid and other fund cuts.

– The Dove Health Care nursing home in Glendale, Wis., near Milwaukee, closed this summer because of heavy debt.

– Medicaid reimbursement rates to nursing homes were cut this year by Rhode Island (5 percent); Michigan (4 percent) and Florida (3 percent).

– Washington state legislators whacked nursing home funding by $93 million for the next two fiscal years.

Gary Weeks, executive director of the Washington Health Care Association, said some of the organization’s 400 assisted living and nursing homes have laid off workers. Some will not survive, he said.

At the request of Weeks’ association, a federal judge in July issued a temporary restraining order blocking the cuts because state officials didn’t do a required analysis of how the reductions would affect care quality and access.

“There’s a lot of pain going on everywhere, but it’s clearly a crisis in long-term care,” Weeks said.

“You’re going to find that some folks go out of business,” he said. “Some will look for more Medicare patients — Medicare pays more than Medicaid.”

In Washington, D.C., health care interests are resisting President Barack Obama’s plan to pay for his health care overhaul by slowing Medicaid and Medicare spending. Obama wants to trim $313 billion from the two programs over 10 years.

It’s not clear exactly how all the health spending cuts will affect nursing homes.

A University of Pittsburgh study earlier this year found nearly 1,800 nursing homes nationwide closed from 1999 to 2005, about 2 percent each year.

One of the study’s authors, health policy and management professor Nick Castle, said the annual closure rate is rising, for reasons that include inadequate Medicaid reimbursement rates and the push for more home and community care.

“It’s come to a head recently with state budgets being in such jeopardy that they’re cutting in all areas,” Castle said.

The federal stimulus package approved in February includes $87 billion in Medicaid funding to help states. But Connecticut and several other states are using a loophole in the legislation to divert the money to budget items unrelated to health care, according to a congressional study.

On average, Medicaid payments by states to nursing homes fell short by $12 per patient, per day last year — nearly $4.2 billion in unreimbursed costs for Medicaid-allowed expenses, according to the AHCA.

In New York City, the Metropolitan Jewish Health System laid off about 200 of its 1,000 employees at three nursing homes in Brooklyn because the state cut Medicaid funding by 10 percent to 14 percent, said President and Chief Executive Eli Feldman.

“We understand there’s a recession/depression,” Feldman said. “But this is not health reform … and the victims are basically the people who live in the facilities. The Legislature basically says, ‘Too sick, too old, too bad.”

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Tension Bolt Assemblies

Tension Fasteners systems are designed to be installed with various types of lightweight portable electric wrenches specifically intended for use with this style of structural fasteners. They can be utilized for any applications where A325 or A490 – Type I or Type III (weathering steel) hex bolts are specified. The installation tool has an inner socket which engages the spline tip of the bolt, while the outer socket engages the nut. The outer socket rotates the nut relative to the bolt spline, and when the tension is sufficient in the fastener, the spline tip simply twists-off, leaving the tightened bolt correctly installed in the connection.  

The key advantage of this type of bolt is the installation time savings by eliminating the torque and tension testing requirements of hex bolt installation.

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Dipped Glove Selection Guide

Flat Nitrile Coated

• Strength – Non-porous high chemical resistance; high abrasion resistance; great for dry applications
• Weakness – Poor wet grip; no coating breathability; slightly stiff; low cust and heat resistance
• Applications – Automotive assembly, food packaging, furniture mfg, electronics, pesticides, oil refining

Foam Nitrile Coated

• Strengths – Flexible; porous; tacky coating for better grip; water permeable; excellent grip in all applications; excellent breathability
• Weakness – Will abrade faster than flat nitrile; low cut and heat resistance
• Applications – Automotive, construction, material handling, engineering, assembly, inspection

Lunar Foam Coated

• Strengths – Good grip; water permeable
• Weakness – Will abrade faster than flat nitrile
• Applications – Automotive, construction, material handling, engineering, assembly, inspection

Latex Coated

• Strengths – Flexible; comfortable; good tensile strength
• Weakness – May cause allergic reaction; low heat protection; does not provide adequate protection from oils or fules
• Applications – Agriculture, material handling, packing, construction, furniture mfg, glass handling, bottling operations

Urethane Coated

• Strengths – Strong; durable; lightweight; thin; flexible; can be silicone and DMF free; high resistance to abrasion; breathable; excellent grip in all applications: wet, oily, and dry
• Weakness – Porous coating makes it highly permeable; very low cut resistance
• Applications – Detailed assembly, inspection, light fabrication and small parts handling, dirt barrier

Bi-Polymer Coated

• Strengths – Good flexibility; breathable; good grip
• Weakness – Low abrasion resistance; high permeability
• Applications – Automotive, engineering, electronices, inspection, packaging

Air Infused PVC

• Strengths – Excellent wet and dry grip; good abrasion resistance
• Weakness – Permeable; low cut resisitance; no heat resistance
• Applications – Bottling, canning, recycling, manufacturing, assembly

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