Up to 24 hours on dry non - porous surfaces.
Up to 72 hours in select moist situations. (Per Dr. Charles Gerba - Link )
This came up in the technical sessions of our franchisee meeting this week.
What is kind of interesting is we've done a number of top to bottom decontaminations of day care centers and educational institutions with flu epidemics - at considerable cost to the customer.
But if you can stay closed for 24 hours a lot of the H1N1 is gone. If you can stay closed for 72 hours it will all be gone.
While that sounds like a non - starter, if your facility closes for the weekend at 5 PM on Friday, and reopens at 8 AM Monday, that's 63 hours - almost enough for a complete die off.
If you shut down at noon on Friday, it's almost 72 hours.
And if most of your people have the flu, might as well ?
Cool huh ?
Until the first person sneezes on Monday and recontaminates the place ?
Which is why staying home if you have H1N1 is the best thing you can do for you employer.
(Never thought I'd hear myself saying that.)
Bob
Friday, October 23, 2009
Odor control bathrooms, etc.
Visited the Newaire people at the ISSA janitorial supply show last month.
Saw the whole product line - specifically an ozone generator designed to be wired right into a wall to run intermittently 24 / 7. It's about the size of a 4 plug electrical outlet.
Very cool idea.
They claim you could put it in a bedroom or other area where people spend long periods of time with no risk from the ozone - because of the tiny dose.
I wouldn't - plus it's probably unnecessary in those type of situations - not that much odor - usually.
But it would be great in bathrooms, kitchens, over a cat box or pet bed - areas that often generate odor.
Especially in an office or plant bathroom, this is a great idea - lots of people use those rooms - lots of odor generation - but nobody (we hope) hangs out in there for 24 straight hours - so absolutely minimal inhalation of ozone by any one individual - but it's working all the time to destroy odors.
Their car cigarette lighter ozone generator (similar to the old Sharper Image one) is probably a good idea if you travel with smokers - while a little more exposure to ozone would result, I'm guessing the ozone would be less risky than breathing in the second hand smoke organic solvents it neutralizes.
For more data on how ozone works, see my original post on ozone generators.
Bob
Saw the whole product line - specifically an ozone generator designed to be wired right into a wall to run intermittently 24 / 7. It's about the size of a 4 plug electrical outlet.
Very cool idea.
They claim you could put it in a bedroom or other area where people spend long periods of time with no risk from the ozone - because of the tiny dose.
I wouldn't - plus it's probably unnecessary in those type of situations - not that much odor - usually.
But it would be great in bathrooms, kitchens, over a cat box or pet bed - areas that often generate odor.
Especially in an office or plant bathroom, this is a great idea - lots of people use those rooms - lots of odor generation - but nobody (we hope) hangs out in there for 24 straight hours - so absolutely minimal inhalation of ozone by any one individual - but it's working all the time to destroy odors.
Their car cigarette lighter ozone generator (similar to the old Sharper Image one) is probably a good idea if you travel with smokers - while a little more exposure to ozone would result, I'm guessing the ozone would be less risky than breathing in the second hand smoke organic solvents it neutralizes.
For more data on how ozone works, see my original post on ozone generators.
Bob
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