Absenteeism Reduction
Absenteeism costs money. In large organisations it can cost an huge
amount of money. Sanuvox air purification implemented in buildings has
been proven to reduce the rate of absence thus producing significant
savings. Imagine the benefit is the air borne transmission of infections
where dramatically reduced in your workplace |
Schools
Schools and colleges are notorious as places where infections are
transferred from pupil to pupil, with the result that an 'imported'
cold, sickness or flu bug can quickly cause a 'cluster' of absence with
pupils catching it and sometimes the staff going down and causing a
management problem. With Sanuvox air purification this problem can
be largely solved by cutting down the air borne transmission of
infections. The bonus to schools is that odours that are so common in
schools can be completely destroyed. |
Risk Management
As companies and organisations get larger so does their exposure to
external risks such that the function of risk management becomes
essential. Among the risks to the continuance of an organisation's
activities are that they could get caught by a bio terrorism incident or
by a pandemic. Either of these events unchecked could cause a major
reduction in the organisation's effectiveness. Sanuvox air purification
installed in the duct work system can provide the organisations best
chance of pulling through such an event almost unscathed, by ensuring
that biological contamination passing through the ventilation system is
eradicated to to highest efficiency. |
Hospitals
Hospital acquired infections are now sadly quite common,
particularly as strains are becoming resistant to antibiotics. Modern
hospitals have ventilation systems that move air around the building and
which provide a medium grade of filtration. Unfortunately much of the
air borne biological contaminants that can give rise to these infections
will pass through the typical filter banks in the mainstream hospital
ventilation. The fitting of Sanuvox in duct air purification systems can
ensure that the air circulating round the hospital is biologically
clean, which inevitably reduces infections by this route. |
Offices
Busy offices need to be efficient to thrive. Where the office
environment becomes too hot or too cold the productivity of the office
will experience a marked drop. Likewise where the air purity is poor,
staff will be more distracted by issues of respiratory discomfort, and
the rapid spread of air borne infections will be a characteristic of
the building. A flu infection can quickly spread to be a infection
cluster causing widespread absence, with loss of office efficiency and
customer service levels. Installation of Sanuvox will not only make a noticeable
improvement to air quality, lowering respiratory discomfort and odours
but also will lower the incidence of cross contamination of staff with
air borne infections. |
Hotels
It is well known in the study of odour that with enough exposure,
people become acclimatised to smells. This fact, unwittingly presents
a problem to hoteliers in particular. If they live and work in a
hotel, they are unlikely to know that it smells as they would be
acclimatized to the odour to the extent hat they would not notice it.
Guests, on the other hand will notice the smell as soon as they walk
through the door. They will form an adverse opinion of the hotel and
would be unlikely to mention the issue to the staff. Stale
cigarette smoke, overzealous use of cleaning agents, perfumes,
kitchens and stale alcohol are all characteristic smells in hotels
that can be avoided by using a Sanuvox air purification
system.
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Shipping
Recent news reports of gastric infections spreading through cruise
liners, and bringing misery to passengers, and in many cases a
premature end to their holiday, highlight the problem of infections
spreading in the confined air space of large ships. Ships, like any
other large structure designed for occupation, have ventilation
systems through which air is delivered to and extracted from the
various rooms, corridors and other areas in the ship. On ships,
passengers and crew live in a higher density than is typical on land
and therefore there is a higher reliance on air provided by forced
ventilation. This ventilation is the ideal conduit for airborne
infections to spread amongst the passengers. The cost of compensation
to passengers must be staggering, but could be avoided if Sanuvox
systems were in place to prevent infections from spreading through the
ventilation systems. As a bonus the distinctive smell of the inside of
a ship (paint, salt and sea sickness) would also be avoided. |
Diesel Fumes
Buildings in busy areas can often be designed with the air intakes too
close to the ground. The effect of this is that ground level fumes and
particulates can be sucked into the ventilation system to then be
circulated through the building. Although moving the air intakes to
the roof, and well away from the roads and loading bays, is the
obvious answer, sometimes it is not actually possible because of
issues of cost, planning and or space. An alternative solution which
has no issues of planning or space, although there is an element of
cost, is to put a Sanuvox system in that can eliminate the traffic
fumes and other external smells before the air is delivered into the
building's rooms.
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Mould
Mould and mildew in duct work systems is a big issue in some of the
States of America and in other countries that suffer from particularly
humid conditions and/or flooding. It can also be a localized issue on
the cooling coils and drip trays in air handling systems. The
proliferation of mould and mildew causes a sharp increase in the
quantity of fungal spores circulating round the building with the
result that occupants are more likely to experience respiratory
discomfort. Sanuvox has a number of tested installations where the incidence
of mould, mildew and spores have dramatically dropped
Other applications include;
- Sick Buildings
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Biological contaminants
- Bacteria
- Chemical contaminants
- VOCs
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Military
Sanuvox can be used in military environments, particularly in mobile
labs, bunkers, transporters, shipping, planes and facilities with
forced air systems. Where it is vital for these to operate with a
purified air supply a Sanuvox installation can ensure that dangerous
warfare agents are not permitted into the inner ductwork system, which
enables those inside to operate effectively and with least hindrance.
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