What is Special About the Safer Choice Label?
Safer Choice is EPA’s label for safer chemical-based products. Every chemical, regardless of percentage, in a Safer Choice-certified product is evaluated through EPA’s rigorous scientific process and only the safest ingredients are allowed. For over 15 years, the program [...]
EPA Provides Interim Guidance on Porous Surfaces
While EPA-Registration of products for hard surface disinfection is the bedrock of many infection control programs that protect human health, EPA has now also developed evidence-based guidance for porous surfaces...
The Road to Success: Provide Value
In his book, Guerrilla Marketing to Heal the World, green business expert Shel Horowitz says: "In the business world, we hear a lot about cutthroat competition and gaining advantage over the enemy. In some circles, it seems to be a [...]
New Job Status (written in 1990)
by Allen Rathey There was a time when life was less confusing. People knew their place and stayed in it. For instance, saying good morning to the janitor used to be a time-honored way for someone in the higher strata [...]
Ergonomics Considerations for the Design of Cordless Stick Vacuum Handles
by Dr. Gary Allread When choosing the appropriate vacuum across a wide array of available products, it is essential to consider operational features, such as amount of particle removal, ease of filter replacement, and battery life. However, usability and effort [...]
Semper Fi and Custodial
A Hispanic man of 44 with a slightly prominent belly walked slowly into the training room for the dozen or so custodians of the community college; he being last to enter. Javier sat down tiredly at a long rectangular table [...]
What is Engineered Water?
The Engineered Water Consortium (EWC) defined Engineered Water (EW) as: “Water engineered to meet the performance requirements of professional cleaning, sanitizing and/or disinfecting, with long-term value and green factors as key uptake and ethical drivers, and On Site Generation (OSG) [...]
Citizen Science Anyone?
Citizen science (CS) encourages members of the public to voluntarily participate in the scientific process. Whether by asking questions, making observations, conducting experiments, collecting data, or developing low-cost technologies and open-source code, members of the public can advance scientific knowledge [...]
When Components Compete, Systems Collapse
In a well-organized system all the components work together to support each other. In a system that is well led and managed, everybody wins. This is what I taught Japanese top management and engineers beginning in 1950. If by [...]
Kaizen and Service
Service is ... an essential aspect of the business applications of kaizen. Each employee in a kaizen culture is asked to look each day for ways to improve the process or product