Protect Employees From Airborne Diseases, Including Bird Flu

New technology has created a protective face mask, originally developed for the medical industry.  These face masks are coated with a nanotechnology filtration system.  This creates a breakthrough opportunity for any hotel or restaurant to be able to prepare themselves and their employees for mitigating the effects of contagious pathogens.  These include toxic black mold and avian flu (bird flu).  

For those readers not familiar with toxic black mold, it is prevalent in any geographic area that has been hit by a flood. It can even be caused in both hotels and restaurants whose air conditioning systems emit excessive moisture, which is the breeding ground for toxic black mold.

On an annual basis, hotels and restaurants throughout the country that are effected by flooding have not addressed the issue of protecting all their employees from contracting toxic black mold, which is a favorite target of environmental attorney’s. 

A real life example demonstrates the viability of this technology in action. In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, thousands of face masks were “donated” to relief workers.  The results speak for themselves. Many of the relief workers who did not have this technology contracted diseases, such as toxic black mold. On the other hand, none of the relief workers who had the nanotechnology filtration face masks contracted toxic black mold. 

For the hotel and restaurant industry, the rationale in obtaining these devices is the same one you would use in purchasing a fire extinguisher: When there is a fire, you need a fire extinguisher.  When there is a pandemic that breaks out in your area, you need to be prepared to protect your customers and employees alike.  In other words, just like a fire extinguisher, the savvy hotel or restaurant owner should consider ordering enough of these face masks to have on-hand when the need arises.

This new licensed technology for the nano-coating of these face masks has been validated by established, independent testing facilities against a broad spectrum of harmful pathogens including the avian influenza (bird flu).  Originally, this new technology was formed to develop a preeminent filtration technology that would serve to ensure the safety of rescuers by virtually eliminating risk of cross-contamination during CPR.   The goal was to elevate the confidence of caregivers to the point where fear of exposure to contagious disease would not cause even a moment's hesitation.

After an extensive period of research and development, Scientists were able to achieve two significant early results.  The first one was a unique and highly efficient micro-particle air filter designed for medical filtration.  This technology is also suitable and adaptable to a variety of applications outside the medical products industry, such as Hotels or Restaurants. The second was the introduction of the first product to utilize this innovative, patented technology, in the form of a CPR Mask that isolates contaminates from transferring from one individual to another. 

From the standpoint of the hotel or restaurant, having these devices available, especially in those countries where a pandemic is prevalent, will allow hotel or restaurant employees not to have to fear getting cross-contamination from the inhaling and exhaling during the administering of CPR to either a customer and/or an employee who may be in need themselves of CPR. The technology described in this article has been enhanced with biocidal nanoparticles that have been proven effective in terminating known pathogens in less than a minute.

The nanotechnology, when tested in the lab, confirmed that it would protect against SARS, which can be contracted by casual contact. What was intriguing is that the lab tests confirmed that this nanotechnology coating was killing every virus and bacteria in sight.  When it was learned that the bird flu outbreaks could possibly go “airborne”, just like in the movie Outbreak in 1995 starring Dustin Hoffman in which a fictitious virus goes “airborne”, the U.S. Military funded a research study that allowed the company to transfer their technology to face masks that utilize the same nanotechnology coating.

One of my friends just got back from Milan, Italy, where he told me that he saw a lot of people wearing face masks to protect them against the industrial pollution.  We also know that there are many people who have severe allergies who do not go out in public without a face mask.  These face masks, and surgical masks, are both handled by the nanotechnology coating.  However, while the surgical masks are disposable, the face masks have replaceable filters.  Just like a razor blade, that has a life cycle, these nanotechnology filters also have a life cycle, when utilized, which in this case is 48 hours.  The filters are generally purchased with the face masks in a ratio of 10 filters to each face mask.

Because the masks would be purchased before a need arose in cases where a pandemic has not broken out as of yet; the product has a long shelf life of several years. Even Employee’s who wear eye glasses have no problem wearing these face masks. From a Hotel or Restaurant standpoint, these developments represent a viable way to prepare your employees and customers for a possible pandemic.

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