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Why It's Time to Detox Your Desk

The Average worker comes into contact with more than 10 MILLION disease-causing bacteria lurking on their keyboard, phone and mouse.The Facts:More than 10 million bacteria lurk on the average office desk with 7,500 organisms hidden in your keyboardUnhygienic working conditions are a 'key contributor' to millions of working days lost world wide to sickness each yearBacteria and viruses can survive on hard surfaces for up to 24 hoursOur hands are a germ motorway; many surfaces they come into conta... Read More

Man dies after drinking wineglass full of soap

This incident is a scary reminder of the importance of storing cleaning chemicals in a safe location in the correct container with the correct labelling. As highlighted in this Spanish tragedy, it is easy to mistake a cleaning chemical for a beverage if it is decantered into a drink/wine bottle then accidentally stored in the fridge. It only took one sip for this mistake to become fatal.In 2012, two Auckland women were seriously injured after being served the poisonous chemical benzalkonium... Read More

Can you handle the dirty truth about wet wipes?

How often do you use wet wipes?A study by Cardiff University found that the cleaning tissues are helping to spread deadly superbugs in NHS wards. Seven commercially available wipes were tested on the most common hospital infections.In "every instance", the wipes actually spread potentially deadly infections from one surface to another, researchers said. They went on to warn that consumers who used them in their own homes, especially the bathroom, might as well go around spraying raw Campylobacte... Read More

Don't Get Blasé With Chemicals

Worksafe NZ warns as company finedA waterproofing company has been fined $33,750 and ordered to pay reparation of $2,500 after one of its employees was overcome by toxic fumes.The worker was applying a bitumen-based product to the inside of a grain silo at an egg farm near Hastings at the time of the incident in April last year.The man was wearing a respirator, but did not have a solvent filter available and so used a dust filter, meaning he was exposed to the toxic solvent fumes.The worker spen... Read More

Enough Plastic To Line Worlds Beaches

Plastic recycling is becoming more and more of a factor in our industry and many others, as part of what we can be doing from a sustainability standpoint to play our part in reducing the amount of plastic ending up in our oceans. Having a cradle to cradle recycling program can also assist to give you the edge commercially and a point of difference from all the others.The world's oceans are being filled with enough plastic waste to thickly line every coastline in the world, according to the first... Read More

Phones Carry Personal Germ Stamp

A new study by US researchers has found that many of the personally unique bacteria found on our hands can also be found on our smartphones.The findings, published in open-access journal PeerJ, open up the possibility of smartphones being used to check if a person has picked up bugs in germ-heavy environments such as hospitals, rather than testing the person themselves.The researchers, from the University of Oregon, sampled the hands and phones of 17 people for 7000 different naturally occurring... Read More

Virus Transfers Within The Office

A team led by microbiologist Charles Gerba of the University of Arizona, has revealed in a recent study that a virus can spread around a whole building within two hours of coming into contact with just one surface. The team found that up to 60 per cent of the surfaces sampled were contaminated with the virus within just two to four hours. However, there is a simple solution for combating the spread, says Mr Gerba, who found using disinfecting wipes registered as effective against virus... Read More

Fist Bump Cleaner Than Handshake

A resent study has revealed that the traditional greeting of a handshake can facilitate the transfer of a high dose of bugs, fuelling the spread of contagious illness. The study is calling for people to ditch the traditional handshake in favour of the much more hygienic ‘Fist Bump’.The study, conducted by Aberystwyth University researchers, senior lecturer Dr Dave Whitworth and PhD student Sara Mela, was published in the American Journal of Infection Control, where it was reported that an al... Read More

Soap Nazis

BNZ are taking the lead in implementing measures to reduce recent high absenteeism due to colds, flues and tummy bugs. BNZ are calling for their senior managers around the country to encourage the use of hand sanitisers as well as sanitising all work surfaces twice daily. Click here to read the full article.It is great to see a company like the BNZ making such an effort to keep their staff healthy. Check out these great Kemsol sanitising products!Hand PatrolMicrobanSteri-DryBac-StopWhite An... Read More

Check out our New Road Sign!

It’s been a long time coming and quite an undertaking, but finally our new road sign is standing tall and proud! She’s a beauty, designed and installed by SignOn. The sign fits in perfect harmony with our building and certainly stands out from the crowd. Give us a toot if you’re driving by to let us know that you too agree she’s a beauty! Read More

Summer Time!

Summer Time!Summer Time! Means Getting The House Ready For Beers, BBQ’s and Fun Times.We have three fantastic products designed specifically for this task… Agent-Oxy (was Deck Clean)Removes soiling, mould and mildew from timber surfaces and restores weathered wood to a bright natural appearance without the use of acids or bleach.For outdoor use | Timber cleaner and rejuvenator | Domestic & commercial useClick to see full product details Moss-KillKills and prevents moss, mould, mild... Read More

From Aintree to Freight Place

We have settled in nicely to our new premiseson Freight Place, take a look...Our new state of the art factory and head office boasts better:flowproduction capabilitiesdistributionaccesssite segregationgreat storage capacitynot forgetting to mention we've tripled in size! Read More

Kemsol on the Move

Kemsol - On the moveAfter 9 fantastic years of calling 69 Aintree Ave our home, we are moving into better, bigger and brighter premises at 1 Freight Place, Airport Oaks, Auckland, just around the corner. Although we love our home, we have simply outgrown it, both in staff numbers and business growth. Our new site is enormous, allowing plenty of scope for future expansion as well as offering the space and facilities to do what we do even better.So on Friday 19th July we will be closed for the mov... Read More

Wash Against Waste

Wash Against WasteWe have had the pleasure of supporting an amazing charity run project that is making a positive impact on our local environment.‘Wash Against Waste’ is the brain child of charitable trust EcoMatters, with the project being managed by Sarah Jane Murray. Sarah Jane, along with a team of volunteers is spending her Thursday evenings washing plates at the New Lynn Night Markets from a mobile trailer that is stocked with plates, cutlery, dishwash detergent and tea towels, in a fi... Read More

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