The New Normal and the Fight Against Surface Contaminants
Continuing Education
Use the following learning objectives to focus your study while reading this month’s Continuing Education article.
Learning Objectives - After reading this article, you will be able to:
- Relate how surfaces across building types can cause the spread of sickness.
- Recognize the impacts of surface contamination.
- Identify design strategies to facilitate cleaning, reduce contamination and cut maintenance time.
- Examine the relationship between interior building products and minimizing the spread of infection.
As we assess what we’ve learned from the COVID-19 pandemic, keeping interior spaces clean is part of the equation to preventing similar situations in the future.
Since no building is immune from the spread of sickness and infection, we look to take precautions through more-stringent cleaning measures to keep guests, students, staff, patients and residents safer and more comfortable.
This course will cover common ways surfaces can become contaminated, the causes, the impacts and the solutions for cleaner, more-resilient interiors.
Photo courtesy of Inpro Corporation
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Mark Alan has 25 years of experience as a senior leader, serving the past 13 years as the senior vice president of product management and development at Inpro Corporation. He also oversees corporate sustainability and compliance and has led the company’s efforts toward disclosing both environmental product declarations and Health product declarations. Mark maintains credentials as a LEED Green Associate and is an Advisory Board member for the Wisconsin Sustainable Business Council. |