X-Mist – Doing What It Can To Help Towards Keeping The Economy Open Whilst Protecting Staff, Visitors And Customers Alike Against CV-19
As business people we have the additional responsibility of trying to give individuals the confidence to go back to work, and get them shopping and travelling again to kick start our economy, and help try and fend off what could be a very nasty recession.
Facilities management companies have numerous issues to deal with, not only trying to keep their own staff safe, but also stop infected people from entering premises, and also dealing with the infected people who have entered a building without being detected.
The second set of individuals create the most problems as all the surfaces they have come into contact with are potentially new sources of contamination. Research is constantly appearing telling us how incredibly resilient this new virus is, surviving on phone screens for 96 hours and other non-porous surfaces such as stainless steel for 72 hours, that will make you think whether to use a stair hand rail again!
There is still plenty we don't know about the illness, but as we learn more, one thing we do know is that we can catch the infection by touching surfaces contaminated with coronaviruses.
For example, traces of the virus were found in the cabins of infected passengers on board the Diamond Princess cruise ship, including symptomatic and asymptomatic individuals, up to 17 days after their cabins were vacated, according to research by the Centre for Disease Control (CDC) in the US.
Here's a guide to how long coronaviruses -- the family of viruses that includes the one that causes COVID-19 -- can live on some of the surfaces you probably touch every day. (source WebMD)
- Metal Examples: doorknobs, jewellery, silverware - 5 days
- Wood Examples: furniture, decking - 4 days
- Stainless Steel Examples: refrigerators, pots and pans, sinks – 3 days
- Plastics Examples: milk containers and detergent bottles, subway and bus seats, backpacks, elevator buttons - 2 to 3 days
- Cardboard Examples: shipping boxes - 24 hours
- Copper Examples: pennies, teakettles, cookware- 4 hours
- Aluminium Examples: soda cans, tinfoil, water bottles - 2 to 8 hours
- Glass Examples: drinking glasses, measuring cups, mirrors, windows - Up to 5 days
- Ceramics Examples: dishes, pottery, mugs - 5 days
- Paper Examples: mail, newspaper - The length of time varies. Some strains of coronavirus live for only a few minutes on paper, while others live for up to 5 days.
- Food Examples: takeout, produce - Coronavirus doesn't seem to spread through food.
- Water Coronavirus hasn't been found in drinking water. If it does get into the water supply, your local water treatment plant filters and disinfects the water, which should kill any germs.
- Fabrics Examples: clothes, linens - There’s not much research about how long the virus lives on fabric, but it’s probably not as long as on hard surfaces.
So everything a contaminated person has come into contact with needs sanitising. Offices by their nature are not high footfall environments that require cleaning throughout a working day, if contamination occurs the current method of control is to clean again. But why clean a clean space?
The nature of cleaning undertaken by humans is that areas are always missed, and you never know whether the cloth they used to clean with has become the next carrier!
X mist can help –
Our hand and surface sanitiser can be used by visitors as they enter a building, and by staff on a regular basis to keep their hands, keyboards, tablets and work stations sanitised. It is also easy to carry to use on door handles and even toilet seats.
To manage the sanitation of a building X Mist room is a simple aerosol that office staff or cleaning personnel can administer with just the click of a single button. Just clear the area of clutter to ensure that the mist covers all the important areas.
No need to remove computers or other electrical items, just place a can in the centre of a room and click down the total release valve. The contents will disinfect a five metre by five metre space, and multiple cans can be used to sanitise open plan office areas.
Offices are safe to return to after an hour, and our broad spectrum biocide continues working for 7 days after treatment killing any new pathogens that arrive.
The new formulas are the strongest aerosol sanitisers available on the market, you don’t have to take our word for this. The complete range is fully BS Accredited, with BS EN 14476 confirming its viricidal effectiveness against enveloped viruses including all coronaviruses, whilst BS EN 1650 & 1276 confirms its effectiveness against bacteria and mould including E coli, and HIV.
The products effectiveness against bacteria and spores means that in the process of sanitising it also eradicates the causes of many unpleasant odours, neutralising some of those unpleasant smells left behind by sick personnel or those ones who have thought it ok to have a crafty smoke in the toilet.
X mist also contains a pleasant tea tree fragrance so everyone knows that an area has been treated, and stickers are available that can be displayed to show staff and visitors that something is being done to help protect their welfare.
All this and it was invented and is manufactured in the UK.
For more product information please visit – www.x-mist.co.uk
Or call our helpful staff to discuss your exact requirements on 0121 758 5818.
