Product spotlight

The cleaning and janitorial industry is constantly innovating to provide the latest and greatest products and tools that o er the very highest standards of hygiene and care. Here, we spotlight fi ve companies’ products that are helping to raise the bar.

Bring innovation to your facility, giving your patients and sta confi dence that they are in a safe, clean, and healthy space.

Developed in Canada, the award-winning Optisolve® Pathfi nder™ provides innovative surface-imaging technology so teams can see their spaces in a new light. Pathfi nder™ images identify precise locations of contamination across a variety of surfaces. When combined with Optisolve’s SAVI® quality management platform, you get a fully comprehensive, cloud-based auditing system to automate, assess, analyze, and communicate results e ciently.

Generate visual images of contamination on surfaces using a combination of proprietary software, Haloimaging hardware, bio-tracker spray, and handheld tablet. • Observe real-time images to identify contaminants • Create intensity maps and scorecards to illuminate cleaning defi ciencies • Share images to improve training and develop precision cleaning programs

Conduct, track, and report site assessments with innovative, cloudbased management software. • Assess cleaning quality, and environmental monitoring • Create dashboards, and set benchmarks • Make data-informed decisions for improving facility performance • Create evidence-backed, proactive, and preventative solutions

This powerful combination of innovative technology from Optisolve® enables health facilities to target highly contaminated surfaces in less time, save money, reduce chemical usage, and validate their cleaning protocols in real-time.

During the pandemic, we learned that airborne viruses like COVID are transmitted when infected individuals exhaled, sneezed, and coughed and expelled small disease-bearing droplets and even smaller aerosols that are inhaled by healthy individuals.

Aura Air takes an innovative approach to mitigating IAQ challenges including infection transmission risk. Aura Air is a uniquely comprehensive air quality treatment, monitoring, and reporting tool designed to purify air in high-volume enclosed spaces including meeting rooms, waiting rooms, restaurants, transit, and elevators.

Aura Air is based on robust, easily installed, plug-and-play, wall-mounted units designed to be highly visible and strategically e ective. Each unit contains a powerful variable speed fan that drives indoor air through a three-stage disinfection process. First, the air is forced through high-performance MERV 17 HEPA fi lter designed to trap even tiny aerosol particles. The air fl ow then passes over UV-C ultraviolet light to deactivate surviving viruses and then fi nally is treated by our unique Sterionizer™ to destroy any remaining active pathogens.

Each unit incorporates multiple monitoring devices to test for volatile organic compounds, droplets and aerosols, carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, and even moisture and temperature – factors in pathogen survival rates. IAQ results are transmitted, at any detail level required, to any number of cell phones or computers employing our proprietary app to generate easy-to-read and actionable conclusions.

We interact with our mobile device thousands of times every day and often press it to our faces, which means that any bacteria, virus, or other germ that is on your phone could transfer to your skin.

Whether you’re concerned about the continuing risk of COVID-19 or common fl u and cold germs, regularly disinfecting your smartphone will go some way to helping to lower your overall risk of getting ill.

The CAT® S42 H+ rugged and hygienic smartphone is the fi rst ever to be fully antimicrobial and has had its military-grade body injected with Addmaster’s Biomaster silver ions to help fi ght bacteria to the ISO 22196 standard.

It has been tested to withstand harsh cleaning chemicals and has gone through repeated bleach wipe tests with 3000 cycles as well as pressurized alcohol abrasion tests at 500gF/cm2 over hundreds of cycles.

Reach out to Lenbrook today at info@ lenbrookcanadasolutions.com to ensure that your workforce stays connected and safe with the Cat® S42 H+ smartphone!

OXWELL SOLUTIONS has made it possible for companies and institutions to produce their own disinfectant, using the E2moxTM Station, to meet their pressing disinfection needs. The E2moxTM Station is a new disinfection paradigm for health and care facilities, institutions, and personal workspace use.

The automated unit allows for the on-site production of OXWELLTM – a hypochlorous acid-based, ready-to-use, environmentally friendly disinfectant which is 99.99 per cent e ective against the coronavirus in one minute. OXWELLTM is produced safely, with renewable resources, using patented electrotechnology which transforms water and salt using electricity. This transformation creates a stable solution which respects the environment at each step of the production process and in its usage.

The E2moxTM Station is a self-sustaining solution that can produce tens to thousands of litres per day. On-site production means the disinfectant is readily accessible across all functions and areas, allowing for increased frequency of disinfection, and in more areas as needed. Beyond meeting technical facilities’ disinfection needs, it facilitates employee engagement and sense of well-being with respect to safety of personal and shared common work areas.

Along with enhancing their cleaning programs, healthcare environmental cleaning teams are faced with the challenge of how they can know that cleaning has been done correctly.

The WandaNEXTTM digital cleaning management platform was designed to address this critical issue while increasing e ciency and improving facility hygiene. This innovative software makes it easy to validate cleaning programs in three simple steps: 1. Tracking key data at critical points, including completed cleaning tasks, cleaning frequency, supply usage, tra c patterns, and cleaning alerts 2. Verifying cleaning activity completion and compliance using real-time reporting 3. Validating cleaning activities against customized cleaning protocols to ensure a healthy and safe environment for patients, employees, and visitors.

WandaNEXTTM eliminates the guesswork. Real-time data is easily accessed through a robust analytics portal with dashboard summaries as well as detailed reporting, allowing to easy verifi cation and validation of cleaning activities and proactive and quick identifi cation, preparation, and management of training issues and detailed reporting.

The platform is currently used in a wide range of acute and long-term care settings across Canada, including at Covenant Health in Edmonton, where implementation in washrooms has reduced complaints by 97 per cent. Using the IoT, soap, towel, and tissue dispensers can be connected to monitor consumable use and replenishment requirements, tra c-counting sensors provide space utilization volume and trend data, and ATP reading luminometers can send test result data directly to the analytics dashboard.