Green Cleaning in Health Care

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Green Cleaning in Health Care
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Enviro-Solution Overview

• 12 years
• Proven Solutions
• Single Focus
• Many Major Customer 7 years
• Key Hospitals MUHC
• Chinese Hospital
• Sacred Heart
• and More

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Clean, Cleaning, Cleaning Services

• Clean free of unwanted matter
• different levels
• Cleaning management of the process (procedures)
• Cleaning Service explains how

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We clean to protect health

• Extract contaminants
• Particulates
• Dust
• Allergens
• Moisture
• Mold
• Food Source
• Pest Control

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Why We Clean

• Most basic form of environmental management!
• (Quality of life and the impact on the
  environment)
• Reduce Exposure
• Reduce Risk

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Cost Clean

• Cost is relevant to the
• level of clean
• Benefits of increasing levels of clean is great

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Factors of Environmental Risk
Exposure
Effects
Sources Sinks Ventilation
Environmental Quality
Costs
Risk Level
Source Removal and/or Modification - Dilution
Rate - Work Loading/Activity Management -
Cleaning Maintenance Procedures - etc.
Mitigation
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TACT Principle

• Temperature
• Action
• Chemical
• -pH
• -surfactant
• -builder
• -dilution
• -etc.
• Time

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Cleaning VS Disinfecting VS Sanitizing

• More critical to clean effectively and use
  sanitizer for direct contact surface
• 2 step process
• Most use poor cleaners, disinfectants incorrectly
  
• Therefore, most do not clean nor disinfect
  effectively nor to the required levels

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Green Cleaning VS Use of Traditional Products

• Green is Proven Safer for
• Users
• Occupants of the building
• Patients
• Healthcare Staff
• Visitors to the building
• Environment

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• A safe environment is no foreign objective for
  healthcare facilities.
• Great care is given in many areas.
• But, does the impact of cleaning programs
  sustain the same scrutiny?

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Impact of Cleaning?

• Some of the most prevalent ingredients in
  traditional cleaning products are known or
  suspected as causing
• Respiratory disorders
• Skin eye irritations
• Skin eye burns
• Endocrine system disruptions
• Liver kidney malfunctions
• Blood nervous system damage

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Who is affected?

• Everyone!
• Direct contact
• Indirect contact
• Indoor air quality

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• VOCs
• Residues
• Adverse Reactions
• Reactive
• Flammable
• Persistent, Bioaccumilative, Toxic
• Environmental Impacts

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• Contaminants indoors can be two to five times
  worse than these outdoors.
• Athsma increased by 160 since 1960
• Poor indoor environmental quality is suspected to
  be linked to health issues.

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• People on average spend 90 of their time indoors
• Tighter buildings
• Poor air circulation
• More people in the same space
• Improper cleaning results in lost productivity
  costing 60 Billion Annually

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The Environment

• 6 Billion pounds of chemicals
• 4.5 Billion pounds of paper
• 35 Billion Plastic Liners
• Equipment

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• ...And Separating
• Fact From Fiction

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• Green Seal /ECP Certification
• USA EPA Design for the Environment (DTE)
• Self-Certification
• Biobased Products
• Naturally Occurring
• Biological Products
• Home Remedies
• Environmental Claims Self Certification

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• Green Cleaning Cleaning to protect health
  without harming the environment.
• Green Cleaning is more then just switching a
  few traditional chemicals with naturally derived
  alternatives.
• products and services that reduce the health and
  environmental impacts compared to similar
  products and services used for the same purpose.

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• Aquatic Toxicity
• Aquatic biodegradability
• Eutrophication
• Packaging
• Fragrances
• Prohibited Ingredients
• Training
• Animal Testing

• Performance Tests
• Human Toxicity
• Carcinogens Reproductive Toxins
• Skin Eye Irritation
• Skin Sensitization
• Combustibility
• Smog Production/ IAQ (VOCs)

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• Consensus, independent,public review
• National, not local
• Save resources
• Third party authority, insulation
• Based on recognized good science
• Meet mandates
• Makes it easier for all of us

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Green is here to stay!

• Results conclusive
• Not going to be a passing fad
• Green cleaning with high performance cleaning is
  risk management and risk reduction

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Other Green Resources

• Folder
• Overview of Green Cleaning
• Overview of Cleaning for Health
• Enviro-Solutions Website
• www.enviro-solution.com
• Presentations Reports
• Cleaning for Health by Inform
• Others
• Other Helpful Sites
• ECP for Healthcare
• Occupational Health
• Indoor Air Quality

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Questions Answers
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