Schools

Sick Schools into Healthy Schools

The recent pandemic has been a tectonic shift in our daily lives and has highlighted the inherent deficiencies in how we safeguard the health of our children and teachers. Prior to COVID, 60,000 schools nationwide were classified as “Sick”. Essentially 46% of our schools have environmental conditions that create poor air quality. Subpar ventilation systems are often the culprit. That is not the only cause. Our aging schools inherently become infested with mold and mildew.

To place a greater burden on the situation are the people that enter the schools. Every time a person enters a school, they bring with them the germs that are on their body and in their system. There is no doubt that our kids are more susceptible to germs when returning to and staying in school. Schools are breeding grounds for infections and have unfortunately earned the moniker of “Germ Candy stores”. This is why we hear the phrase “Back to School, Back to Germs”.

The average student misses 4.5 days a year for illness. One in ten children have asthma. Poor indoor environment significantly impacts their ability to attend school, let alone learn.

The average student’s desk harbors about 400 times more bacteria than the average toilet seat. A teacher’s desk is 20 times more contaminated than a student’s. Locker rooms are infested with germs, including Staph and MRSA. For the good of our children’s education and the safety of teachers, it is imperative that we vastly improve this situation.

The challenge of fighting this situation on a day to day basis is overwhelming. Today, our schools are being built to larger capacities, yet our custodial staff is shrinking. Human action is not enough to prevent the transference of dangerous airborne and surface germs.
Sprays, filters and UV lights are not the answer. If they were, we would not have this problem.

Schools are a place for kids to learn and grow. The pandemic has shown how far reaching the effects of missing school can be. Providing a healthy environment for children will significantly improve, attendance, performance, behavior and socialization.

Our educational system deserves the best that technology has to offer. Harvest Innovative Solutions, being a leading expert in CIMR® technology, can turn “sick buildings” into healthy ones. This automated process removes the sanitizing challenges from humans, compensates for the deficiencies in passive systems, and provides the solution to these everyday challenges.

What Is CIMR®?

This is a germ, bacterial, fungi, and virus control technology comprising 0.02 ppm of Hydrogen Peroxide, the world’s safest all-natural effective sanitizer. It automatically and continuously disperses its contents in an environment like a room or a workplace, acting as a deterrent against germs, bacteria, and other pathogens, providing a healthy and safe environment for both students and teachers.

How Does CIMR® Work?

It works by diffusing reactive hydrogen peroxide anywhere the air travels, disinfecting microbes continuously in places that the other technologies can’t reach. CIMR® molecules have localized negative and positive charges drawn to bacteria, mold, and viruses through electromagnetic attraction. The molecules find the contaminant instead of waiting to be found. It attacks the pathogen’s cell wall until it’s breached and its protein bleeds. It’s on a constant seek & destroy mission!