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Aviation Industry
The aviation industry has always been at the forefront of implementing measures to ensure the health and safety of both employees and passengers due to its familiarity with illness outbreaks. This industry faces unique challenges in maintaining operations while also safeguarding public health, as options for cost-cutting are limited. Airports cannot easily cease operations or adjust their infrastructure quickly, highlighting the critical importance of effective surface management practices to keep environments clean and safe for everyone.
Elevating Safety Standards in Aviation
Airlines are enhancing their cleaning efforts by thoroughly disinfecting planes, focusing on high-touch areas such as lavatories, tray tables, and armrests. Enhanced protocols are in place to isolate and sanitize any aircraft with suspected illness cases. Face coverings are required to complement these robust cleaning measures, which include the use of electrostatic technology and EPA-approved disinfectants. To reduce contact, a revised boarding process now allows passengers to board in a way that minimizes close interactions, ensuring a safer travel environment for everyone.
Precautions
Other precautions in the industry include, no self-service kiosks and encouraging passengers to use smartphones for boarding passes and checking in to minimize contact. Passengers on planes are also given “all-in-one” snack bags that include sanitizer wipes, bottled water and snacks. 50% of all standard middle seats are blocked to allow for distancing among passengers.
Preventing the spread of germs
All airlines are thoroughly disinfected every night and after every flight. With close to 1.7 million passengers on planes daily, disinfecting is crucial to preventing the spread of germs.
The dirtiest parts of airplanes are; seat back pockets, headrests and bathrooms. In airplane bathrooms alone there are 265 bacteria colony forming units (CFU). There are 285 CFU in the air vents and 2155 CFU per square inch in the seatback trays. Headrests have the highest aerobic count of any touch point on airplanes.
TruElectrostatic for TruDisinfection™
Our EMist® system applies disinfectant solutions with its patented technology to surfaces using electrostatic induction charging. The liquid droplets are positively charged by the spray system which is then driven to the surface target area in a consistent manner allowing for comprehensive uniform coverage. Simply put, our technology applies more evenly, sticks to surfaces like a magnet, and reduces waste drastically.