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 Step One – Before Work – Products with BLUE labels

Protect your skin by applying a barrier cream

• Protects skin from contamination and allows for easier cleaning
• Oil based for Grease and Oil - Travabon
• Water based for Oils and General Grime – Stokoderm

Step Two –Cleaning after work - Products with GREEN labels 

Clean your skin after work is performed and skin is soiled

• Use product to clean hands – apply to dry hands, add water and wash hands
• Select appropriate product to do the job
  • Light duty cleaners & Sanitizers – Refresh Foam, Estesol
    • Light to moderate dirt and grime
  • Industrial – Solopol, BlueForce
    • General soil levels to moderate oils
  • Heavy duty cleaners – Kresto, Kwik Wipes
    • Heavy amounts of soil oils & greases
  • Specialty for Paint, inks and dyes – Cupran & Reduran

 Step Three – Conditioning – Products with RED labels

Condition your skin after cleaning to prevent chapping, chafing and eczema

• Keep skin in tact by rehydrating and repairing after cleaning – Stokolan,
• Heal the hands with medicated conditioners

 How to decide which system to use?

1. What are the skin care circumstances and do I need all the steps or only parts
   1. Incidents of skin irritation, eczema and dermatitis in the plant will indicate requirements
2. What soil and conditions are in the plant
   1. Choose the product in each of the categories above that best fit the amount and type of soil
   2. D’limonene cleaners may be a natural solvent but they are a skin irritant
      1. Read the MSDS Section V Health Hazards reads… “May be irritating to skin and eyes. Skin contact may cause slight redness.  Contains a potential skin sensitizer.”  The MSDS goes on to instruct if there is contact with the skin, “wash affected area with copious amounts of soap and water.”
3. Cost in Use of the soap system
   1. Cost per ML
   2. Usable ml per container – Container ml less waste Left in the container that cannot be dispensed due to dispenser system efficiency
   3. Refill time per unit – How long does it take to refill the dispenser
   4. ML of product dispensed per push
   5. The average number of pushes per hand wash is 2 times
4. Are there GREEN alternatives

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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     

SOURCES

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Infections in Medicine, 2005; vol 22: pp 16-20.
Klevens, R.M. The Journal of the American Medical Association, Oct. 17, 2007; vol 298: pp 1763-1771. R. Monica Klevens, DDS, MPH, Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion, CDC, Atlanta.
Elizabeth Bancroft, MD, Acute Communicable Disease Control, Los Angeles County Department of Public Health.
CDC Basic Statistics, HIV/AIDS Status Report, 2005. WebMD Medical News: “MRSA Rates Much Higher Than Thought.”
CDC Press Release, “CDC estimates 94,000 invasive drug-resistant staph infections occurred in the U.S. in 2005.” October 16, 2007.
Linezolid for the treatment of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infections in children. Kaplan SL - Pediatr Infect Dis J - 01-SEP-2003; 22(9 Suppl): S178-85
Prospective comparison of risk factors and demographic and clinical characteristics of community-acquired, methicillin-resistant versus methicillin-susceptible
Staphylococcus aureus infection in children.
Sattler CA - Pediatr Infect Dis J - 01-OCT-2002; 21(10): 910-7 Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in the community. Bratcher D - Pediatr
Infect Dis J - 01-DEC-2001; 20(12): 1167-8

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Excerpt from CDC Recommendations on Hand Washing

When hands are visibly dirty or contaminated with pertinacious material or are visibly soiled with blood or other body fluids, wash hands with either a non-antimicrobial soap and water or an antimicrobial soap and water. If hands are not visibly soiled, use an alcohol-based hand rub for routinely decontaminating hands in all other clinical situations described in items. Alternatively, wash hands with an antimicrobial soap and water in all clinical situations described in items. Do not add soap to a partially empty soap dispenser. This practice of “topping off” dispensers can lead to bacterial contamination of soap. No recommendation can be made regarding the routine use of non-alcohol-based hand rubs for hand hygiene in health-care settings, unresolved issue.

 Antimicrobial Spectrum and Characteristics of Hand-Hygiene Antiseptic Agents*

Note: +++ = excellent; ++ = good, but does not include the entire bacterial spectrum; + = fair; — = no activity or not sufficient.

• Hexachlorophene is not included because it is no longer an accepted ingredient of hand disinfectants

http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/PDF/rr/rr5116.pdf

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Hand Washing Comparison                                               

 Proper hand washing is the single largest activity that can prevent illness and improve health.

 Tank Type Dispensers  50oz   

Offers the lowest cost per gallon of soap

      @ 0.1oz per push &  $8.00/gal                                                       $.006/hand wash

• Each Dispenser fill last only 500 hand washes – 4 times more filling
• Soap is less concentrated and cheaper pink soaps can be thickened using salt – salt destroys the dispenser
• Soap is open to the air which can promote bacterial growth in the soap itself
• Refilling can be a messy operation
• Soap can be taken, misused or wasted by employees adding to cost

Duraview  – Dispensers

Cost effective per hand wash

      @1.0ml per push & $10.00 per 2000ml                             $.005/hand wash

• Each Cartridge will last up to 2000 hand washes
• Can restrict amount dispensed per push to increase cost effectiveness
• Great looking dispenser system
• High quality soap, people will be more apt to use it and improve their health
• Soap is super concentrated – a little will go a long way
• Cartridge is air tight, soap cannot be contaminated
• Easy to refill cartridges
• Cartridges can only be used effectively in dispenser – eliminates theft

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