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Embedding Sustainability Drives Climate Impact
4/16/2021
By Dylan Beach
Sustainability Senior Manager, GOJO Industries
This year, as we celebrate the 51st Earth Day, the world is uniting over three days, April 20-22, to focus on actions we all can take to further prevent climate change and environmental destruction. Science tells us that we need to reduce the world's greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 50% by 2030 to avert the most significant effects of climate change.
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Keeping Food Safety On Track with Off-Premise Activity
4/15/2021
By Diane Collins
Senior Market Development Director – Foodservice, GOJO Industries
More restaurant operations are occurring outside of traditional spaces due to the growth of off-premise sales. As with all foodservice policies, “out of sight, out of mind” is never a best practice, and it’s absolutely necessary to be stewards of food safety even when it can’t be readily observed. This is the topic of a recent essay from Hal King, Ph.D., Managing Partner at Active Food Safety and Founder of Public Health Innovations.
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Dispensers 101
4/12/2021
By Stephen Marks
Former Total Solutions Senior Director, GOJO Industries
With many businesses working around the clock to open safely and return to some form of a “new normal,” we are seeing many looking to offer PURELL® Hand Sanitizer for the first time as part of that effort. For many businesses, the most appropriate solution may be through a dispensing system. However, the world of dispensing can be overwhelming and confusing for someone offering it for the first time, so we are here to help simplify this for you.
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How Smart Restroom Solutions Transformed the Way Building Cleaning is Managed at One World Trade Center
4/6/2021
By April Bertram
Former Senior Business Development Director, GOJO Industries
The iconic One World Trade Center, located in lower Manhattan, has been a long-time customer of GOJO. Recently they turned to our partnership with Kimberly-Clark Professional to transform the way they manage their restrooms. The 104-story tower has adopted the internet-connected, state-of-the-art Onvation Smart Restroom Solution to proactively control and optimize servicing of its 140 restrooms.
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GOJO Celebrates Women’s History Month as a WBENC-Certified Women’s Business Enterprise
3/31/2021
By Kimberly Morgan, MS, CDE, SHRM-CP
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Senior Director, GOJO Industries
Women’s History Month has been celebrated annually in the United States for more than three decades, but with the dramatic changes caused by the pandemic over the past year, we are hearing more and more stories of women leading their companies through these challenging times or otherwise making significant contributions to businesses helping the world recover from the pandemic.
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The Effect Mitigating COVID-19 Transmission Through Cleaning and Sanitation Is Having on Foodborne Disease Outbreaks
3/29/2021
By Hal King, Ph.D.
Managing Partner, Active Food Safety and Founder/CEO of Public Health Innovations
Also By Chip Manuel, Ph.D.
Food Safety Science Advisor, GOJO Industries
The COVID-19 pandemic that first hit the United States in 2020 has been the largest public health crisis in more than 100 years, leading to millions of deaths globally and altering the global economy for years to come. As just one example of the far-reaching negative impacts of this virus, it has devastated the restaurant and foodservice industry in the United States and has changed the food industry’s global supply chain for years to come. Restaurant and foodservice loss of sales alone was reported by the National Restaurant Association to surpass $185 billion between March and August of 2020. Now as the pandemic has entered its second full year, there is hope that pharmaceutical interventions (i.e., vaccines and antiviral drugs) will significantly reduce the impact the pandemic has on lives and the economy.
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Raising Awareness During National Poison Prevention Week
3/22/2021
By Sheila Goertemoeller, PharmD, DABAT, ICPS
Clinical Toxicologist & Pharmacist, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Drug and Poison Information Center
National Poison Prevention Week is celebrated the third week of March every year and is a good reminder of the actions we can take to ensure the safe use of products at home. The U.S. Congress established the recognition week in 1961 to focus national attention on the dangers of poisonings and how to prevent them. According to the American Association of Poison Control Centers, 93 percent of exposures happen at home, and 45 percent of exposures involve children 0 to 5 years of age.
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GOJO Honors International Women’s Day with a Look Back at Four Women in GOJO History
3/8/2021
By Kimberly Morgan, MS, CDE, SHRM-CP
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Senior Director, GOJO Industries
GOJO was founded in March 1946 on the heels of WWII. It was a time when women stepped into the workforce to fill roles that men had traditionally held. GOJO co-founder Goldie Lippman (pictured in 1958, left) was one of those women; she was a supervisor on the floor of a rubber factory in Akron, Ohio, then the “rubber capitol” of the world.
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Understanding the Risks Associated with Hand Sanitizer Refilling
2/1/2021
By Antonio Quiñones-Rivera, Ph.D.
Product Safety and Sustainability Senior Manager, GOJO Industries
Also By Chip Manuel, Ph.D.
Food Safety Science Advisor, GOJO Industries
Imagine you are at a breakfast buffet at a hotel (the pandemic is over), and you see a simple glass bottle of milk for your use, with no markings. You pour some milk on your cereal and splash a bit into your coffee. Later in the day, you learn that each morning the serving staff 'tops off' that bottle with milk from other containers, without ever emptying it or washing it. Over the course of weeks, with customers taking many, many milk servings from that bottle, the staff kept topping it off. How would you feel about the milk that you had been served that morning? And the next morning, would you again put milk from that bottle on your cereal?
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Your Best Recruit – A Hand Hygiene and Surface Disinfecting Program for Collegiate Athletic Facilities
1/20/2021
By Morgan Polen
Former Education Market Business Development Director, GOJO Industries
Colleges and universities across the nation have faced unprecedented challenges in the last year – challenges that have taken a toll on most athletic programs. With perseverance and determination, many Athletic Directors and Facility Managers have worked with their teams to implement guidelines from state and local health departments, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and other leading health organizations to safely welcome back athletes, their families, and even some fans.
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