Happy New Year and welcome back to the Talk Clean To Me
blog! While we had a few
"themes" during 2013, our primary focus for topics was covering the
newly published science as it related to the use of chemical disinfectants for
infection prevention. For 2014, Lee and
I have decided to have quarterly themes, certainly we will still intersperse
hot topics as studies that we think are important and worth blogging about hit
the press and we also intend to bring back the Guest Bloggers to bring you
fresh and in some cases hopefully controversial topics and opinions.
blog! While we had a few
"themes" during 2013, our primary focus for topics was covering the
newly published science as it related to the use of chemical disinfectants for
infection prevention. For 2014, Lee and
I have decided to have quarterly themes, certainly we will still intersperse
hot topics as studies that we think are important and worth blogging about hit
the press and we also intend to bring back the Guest Bloggers to bring you
fresh and in some cases hopefully controversial topics and opinions.
The first Quarter will be a focus on relevant pathogens
that cause us grief from an infection prevention standpoint such as Norovirus,
C. difficile, AROs and emerging pathogens we may want to start keeping an eye
on. By no means do I mean we will start
creating dull FAQ type blogs on these pathogens. Just the thought of that makes me yawn. Besides we can find much of that information
on the CDC, Health Canada or WHO websites.
Our focus will be much more exciting such as how to choose a
disinfectant when specific pathogen claims do not exist or why surrogates are
used for some claims rather than the actual pathogen. OK, perhaps that doesn't seem much better,
but I promise you'll we'll make the blogs fun to read and perhaps even get a
snort out of one or two of you!
that cause us grief from an infection prevention standpoint such as Norovirus,
C. difficile, AROs and emerging pathogens we may want to start keeping an eye
on. By no means do I mean we will start
creating dull FAQ type blogs on these pathogens. Just the thought of that makes me yawn. Besides we can find much of that information
on the CDC, Health Canada or WHO websites.
Our focus will be much more exciting such as how to choose a
disinfectant when specific pathogen claims do not exist or why surrogates are
used for some claims rather than the actual pathogen. OK, perhaps that doesn't seem much better,
but I promise you'll we'll make the blogs fun to read and perhaps even get a
snort out of one or two of you!
The second Quarter (or Q2 as most business people would
shorten it to) will look at the costs and return on investment in designing and
implementing an environmental infection prevention and control program. If Lee and I do our jobs correctly, we'll
arm you with a laundry list of what we call "So What's" that should
counter virtually any road block thrown in your path to improving your
environmental infection prevention and control program.
shorten it to) will look at the costs and return on investment in designing and
implementing an environmental infection prevention and control program. If Lee and I do our jobs correctly, we'll
arm you with a laundry list of what we call "So What's" that should
counter virtually any road block thrown in your path to improving your
environmental infection prevention and control program.
Q3 (yep, that's the third quarter) will focus on
Occupational Health and Safety, covering topics such as OSHA's Hazard
Communication standards, the new Global Harmonized Systems, changes to Safety
Data Sheets (formerly known as MSDS) and how as people tasked with choosing
disinfectants consideration to more than just the cost of a product and what it
kills needs to be considered....we want to kills germs, not our staff, even if
some of them "bug" us!
Occupational Health and Safety, covering topics such as OSHA's Hazard
Communication standards, the new Global Harmonized Systems, changes to Safety
Data Sheets (formerly known as MSDS) and how as people tasked with choosing
disinfectants consideration to more than just the cost of a product and what it
kills needs to be considered....we want to kills germs, not our staff, even if
some of them "bug" us!
To finish off the year, we'll spend some time looking at
how we can "green" our environmental cleaning programs not just in
terms of choosing chemicals, but looking at processes and how small changes to
how we clean and disinfect can improve our bottom lines.
how we can "green" our environmental cleaning programs not just in
terms of choosing chemicals, but looking at processes and how small changes to
how we clean and disinfect can improve our bottom lines.
We enjoy your comments and would love to hear from you as
to topics that would be of interest!
to topics that would be of interest!
Bugging Off!
Nicole
