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Yorkshire chemical specialist Airedale Chemical has seen sales of its surfactant range, Airsurf, increase by 45% in just 12 months.
Experts at the company are attributing this to the mounting awareness of the effect hand hygiene has on health and the spread of illness and disease.
Recent reports show that effective handwashing reduces respiratory illnesses such as the common cold by up to 21%. It could also reduce the amount of time children are off school with stomach-related illnesses by up to 57% (according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention).
Daniel Marr, Head of Marketing at Airedale Chemical, explains: “Our range of surfactants include some of our best-selling products and our sales and marketing team has been mindful of this shift in public consciousness, acknowledging hand hygiene has a direct impact on our health. Therefore, the role of surfactants in personal care products such as liquid soap and hand sanitiser has been a key feature in their strategy.
“The statistics are hard-hitting and as awareness of the risks associated with poor hand hygiene are heightened the market is certainly reacting. On average we touch 300 different surfaces every 30 minutes, exposing ourselves to around 840,000 germs so this is something that affects everyone.”
Airedale Chemical supplies surfactants for applications across many industries including personal care, recycling and waste management, food and drink manufacture, detergents and industrial cleaning.
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www.britishcleaningcouncil.org Toilet trouble for
London’s theatres West end theatres have an average of just one toilet for every 38 female audience members, according to research by The Stage.
The research calculated that women would need a 57-minute interval for all to visit the bathroom, but the average interval is 20 minutes.
The Old Vic had the most limited facilities, with just one toilet per 56 women. Many theatres have listed status and struggle to increase the facilities: the Old Vic itself is a Grade II-listed building.
The modern National Theatre topped the survey, as it has one toilet for every 20 women.
The Stage reported that average-sized West End theatres should have a minimum of 45 women’s toilets, but on average they have just 25. When combined with the figures for men’s toilets, there is an average of one toilet for every 26 audience members.
British Standard guidelines state there should be two toilets for up to 25 women, with one more for every additional 25 women at theatres.
Disabled toilets fared even worse: 62% of the 42 surveyed theatres had just one disabled toilet, and both the Ambassadors and Wyndham’s theatres offered no access at all to disabled theatre goers.
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