This is Public Health: Sanitizing Station
[Group members from left to right: Charlotte Holden, Britney Henderson,
Allison Santaferra, and Nathalie Espinosa]
Due to our incompatible schedules, our group needed to meet somewhere near campus. Since, Charlotte works at a grocery store, she was aware that shopping centers often have sanitizing wipes near the shopping carts so customers can clean the handles before using them. Britney suggested that we head over to the Walmart on Fletcher Ave because of its convenient location.
Upon our arrival, we saw that Walmart does, indeed, provide sanitizing wipes to their customers. By providing customers with these wipes, Walmart helps prevent germs from spreading. The spread of germs, as well as the diseases they carry, is a strong public health concern.
Public Health educates people on the importance of proper hand washing. People often underestimate the implications of this and habitually neglect to wash their hands. Each time a customer uses a shopping cart without washing their hands, they spread harmful germs. Customers never know whether the person, who used a particular cart before them, had a serious disease such as influenza.
According to NBC News, a study was conducted that swabbed 36 shopping carts and discovered 50% of the carts tested positive for E coli and other fecal bacteria. This is a huge concern for the population as children and belongings are placed into shopping carts during each shopping trip. Providing customers with these wipes allows them to come shopping without fear of catching virulent diseases, from bacteria such as E coli.
In addition, these sanitation wipes help employees stay healthy. Employees are sent out to collect shopping carts. Collectively, they touch hundreds of carts each day. By being able to sanitize their hands after collecting carts, they will also be able to avoid contracting diseases. In conclusion, sanitation wipes work well as a first line of defense against an immeasurable number of diseases.
By Charlotte Holden, Britney Henderson, Allison Santaferra, and Nathalie Espinosa
By Charlotte Holden, Britney Henderson, Allison Santaferra, and Nathalie Espinosa
This is very true. Normally when going to Wal-Mart there is a very high volume of customers that come in through the store. Wal-Mart needs to reassure that there customers as well as the employees stay in a healthy environment in order to prevent an epidemic. By keeping the carts clean its decreasing the amount of folks getting ill.
ReplyDeleteI love the fact that Walmart and other grocery stores offer these sanitation stations. It does not just kill the germs that we carry on our hands but from other things too. Sometimes the chicken we get from could be leaking on the cart causing the spread of Salmonella. Or if a baby had an accident and it was not cleaned properly, then these wipes help kill those germs. It helps maintain a healthy environment and the people in it.
ReplyDeleteThe fact that shopping carts are that filthy makes you even more thankful for the sanitation whips present. You never know what is present on these carts. I wish more stores were like this and if they are, they need to make it more noticeable. These clean whips help promote the decrease in spreading of epidemics and will allow more people to stay healthy.
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