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Having a good floor care system is important for schools as your floors withstand heavy foot traffic, sliding chairs, desks and so much more. To help your custodial staff do more with less, and help you maintain your floors to withstand the impacts that schools deliver, you may be considering implementing a new floor maintenance program.

With the school year coming to a close, it’s time to evaluate how well your current floor care system and routine are doing based on the daily wear and tear your floor withstands every day. If you’re ready to make a change, consider testing new floor care products now to ensure you have a plan in place to execute immediately when school is out of session.

Each year, on the 5th May the World Health Organization (WHO) shines a light on the importance of hand hygiene with their SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands campaign. This year, the campaign calls on those within the healthcare community to ‘accelerate action together’ to help reduce the risk of Healthcare Associated Infections (HCAIs)

SC Johnson Professional today announced the grand prize winners of its Happy Hands dispenser design contest. The contest promotes the importance of handwashing to students by asking them to create a design encouraging hand hygiene that are featured on SC Johnson Professional dispensers.

SC Johnson Professional, a total solutions provider for industrial, institutional and healthcare users, recently launched the Proline WAVE™ dispenser. It is a 1-liter manual soap dispenser, made with 70% recovered coastal plastic.

Throughout 2023, retailers and facility managers should do their part to help minimize the spread of germs. The common cold and flu viruses spike through February and can linger through the spring, making now a critical time to continue boosting hygiene practices in facilities. It’s important to show care toward building occupants by helping provide a clean and healthy environment.

SC Johnson Professional, a total solutions provider for industrial, institutional and healthcare users, kicked off the voting period today for its Happy Hands dispenser design contest. The contest invites students to submit soap dispenser artwork highlighting the importance of handwashing in schools. This year, a record number of registrants participated in the contest and the Top 10 designs are available to view and vote on until February 28.

All people working in or visiting public places can help reduce the risk of spreading germs from person to person by sanitizing their hands. That’s why it’s important to place a reliable dispenser and hand sanitizer product throughout your facility, so it is available where guests and employees need it most.

The 10th annual World Food Championships (WFC) are coming up soon on November 9-13, 2022. SC Johnson Professional, a total solutions provider for industrial, institutional and healthcare users, is heading back to Dallas to be the sole cleaning sponsor of the competition.

A pioneer in the hand care space, SC Johnson Professional created the industry’s first foam soap for the professional sector over 20 years ago. Identifying a need to improve the way people wash their hands in public spaces, SC Johnson Professional invested in research and development (R&D) and created a new and innovative way for people to wash their hands.

While there are thankfully signs of labor market improvement, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, there are still 1.8 open jobs per available worker . However, even prior to the labor shortage, the cleaning industry has been known for having high turnover - a challenge for many employers. Training cleaning personnel requires time, energy and money. Furthermore, if an employee quits shortly after completing the process, it can be costly.

Taking place October 16 – 22, International Infection Prevention Week is a time to recognize the hard work of infection preventionists (IP) throughout the world. Much of their work to protect patients, healthcare workers, hospital staff and visitors often goes unrecognized. To honor these vital members of healthcare facilities’ staff, SC Johnson Professional sat down with Heather Snyder, Manager of Infection Prevention with Atlantic General Hospital in Maryland, to learn more about her experiences as a frontline IP.