GOJO Supports International Infection Prevention Week

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Oct 20, 2014, 01:37 ET

AKRON, Ohio, Oct. 20, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- GOJO, inventors of PURELL^® Advanced Hand Sanitizer, is proud to support International Infection Prevention Week (IIPW) hosted by the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC), which occurs globally Oct. 19-25, 2014. In light of recent events, IIPW will focus its attention on Ebola infection prevention and control guidance.

"IIPW is addressing a topic that is top of mind in the healthcare industry today, and GOJO is pleased to be part of the discussion to help protect the health of healthcare workers, who according to The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), are among those who have the highest risk of contracting the disease," said David Mackay, vice president sales and marketing, healthcare markets for GOJO.

The CDC and World Health Organization both recommend practicing careful hygiene – washing your hands with soap and water or using an alcohol-based hand sanitizer – as a preventive measure against Ebola. In order to raise further awareness for the importance of hand hygiene, GOJO is sponsoring the following activities during this week:

Supplying more than 21,000 PURELL^®Advanced Hand Sanitizer and hand hygiene materials to more than 100 facilities
Providing complimentary hand hygiene infection prevention webinars and whitepapers educational tools on its website at healthcare.gojo.com/education

GOJO began selling PURELL^®Hand Sanitizer in the healthcare market in 2001. Today, GOJO offers a breadth of hand hygiene solutions to the healthcare market. This includes the GOJO SMARTLINK™ Hand Hygiene Solution that is built upon a state-of-the-art electronic compliance monitoring platform, and includes clinician-based on-site support, superior hand hygiene formulations, advanced-technology dispensing systems, and technology that allows for or accommodates hand hygiene monitoring at a group, individual, role, and area level.

About GOJO
GOJO Industries inventors of PURELL® Instant Hand Sanitizer, distributes PURELL Hand Sanitizer in away-from-home markets throughout the world. In addition, GOJO manufactures and distributes a full line of products under GOJO® and PROVON® brand names. GOJO has a 66-year history of leadership in improving well-being through hand hygiene and healthy skin. GOJO has products and programs to kill germs on hands and solve skin care-related problems in a variety of markets, including healthcare, foodservice, food processing, manufacturing, automotive, education, government and military. GOJO is a privately held corporation headquartered in Akron, Ohio, with offices in the United Kingdom, Australasia, Japan and Brazil.

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