NORTHWOOD ARE TOP OF THE CLASS
Here, Paul Mulready, Marketing Manager at Northwood Hygiene Products Ltd, discusses how one of the UK’s top schools has benefited from a washroom upgrade.
When St Albans High School for Girls, the Sunday Times 2015/2016 Independent Secondary School of the Year, decided it was time to refresh and refurbish their washrooms, it was the health of their 950 girls aged between four and 18 that was uppermost in their minds.
Established more than 120 years ago, this renowned day school has the wealth of experience needed to establish how best to incorporate the latest in efficient washroom dispensing in order to ensure a safe and hygienic environment.
Summit Hygiene of nearby Leighton Buzzard were asked to send their specialist education division representatives to advise on a strategy that acknowledged both the primacy for high hand hygiene standards and the need to deliver a highly competitive cost in use performance.
Both parties know that the disruption of lessons caused by the absence of pupils due to illness has an adverse effect for both them and the school, particularly amongst younger children with more immature immune systems.
They also know that hand hygiene is perhaps the single most important step in reducing the risk of spreading waves of infection. In a closed setting such as a school where close contact with other children and the sharing of equipment and facilities is the norm, bacteria can and do spread quickly.
Lorraine Ings, of the Sales and Customer Service team at Summit Hygiene knows that. In their 40 years of trading they have supplied a whole range of educational establishments, from nurseries, primary and secondary schools through to universities and colleges, all tailored to their individual needs. In the case of St Albans High School she had no hesitation in recommending the installation of
Northwood Hygiene Products’ Bay West dispensers.
In this instance it was decided that the very best combination would be the two roll capacity Dublr toilet tissue dispenser, the hands-free hand towel dispenser and the foam soap dispenser.
The dispensing systems were first trialled in the staff washrooms, and they were a success. So the roll out to the whole of the rest of the school went ahead.
The nature of washroom use in schools is predicated by timetables and breaks, which tends to lead to relatively high traffic usage in short bursts.
So even in the very best of establishments the dispensers need to be sufficiently robust to withstand the attentions of enthusiastic and excitable children. The dispensers need to be able to be easily monitored and maintained during the quieter times and they must have sufficient capacity so as not to run out at times of peak usage.
On all of those counts, Bay West dispensers are proven winners.
St Albans High School for Girls is very pleased with the results following the fitting out of the new washrooms.
The overall efficiency of the dispensers has led to much less waste which in
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turn has led to the washrooms being much less untidy. This, as has been evidenced in other organisations, has led to something of a virtuous circle where washroom users, in this case the pupils, show greater respect for the facilities. The maintenance and cleaning requirements are hence much reduced.
Those factors have made major contributions to delivering the enviable cost in use figures which underpin this exercise.
It is also worth noting that various studies have shown that junior school age children are especially receptive to developing good personal habits, such as washing and drying their hands thoroughly and that they are likely to carry them on through the rest of their lives.
Just another plus point that the pupils of this excellent school can now benefit from.
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