Hygiene as The Foundation for Healthier Business
In 2023, businesses and the cleaning industry are under significant pressure, managing financial uncertainty coupled with the negative effects of workplace illness, hybrid working, the rising cost of labour and the spread of germs within its spaces.
Employees and customers are now hyper-aware of hygiene in the wake of the pandemic. With unprecedented levels of transferable illnesses (common cold, influenza, RSV), resulting in 186 million work days lost each year, the need to maintain hygiene in the workplace has never been greater.
On this panel, Lucas Gent, Global Research and Development Project Manager at Reckitt, Fred O’Connor, National Category Manager, Blackwoods and Dr Nick Osborne, Associate Professor of environmental epidemiology at University of Queensland School of Public Health, will discuss how the latest hygiene science, focussed on delivering targeted hygiene can achieve more hygienic spaces whilst also helping to save time, reduce costs and improve productivity which all leads to giving end customer businesses the latest hygiene science.
Speakers
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Dr Lucas GentGlobal Research and Development Project Manager at ReckittDr Lucas Gent joined Reckitt in 2021 with the Global Business Solutions team. Lucas has a background in Molecular Genetics and presents a diverse interdisciplinary skill set. He has worked very closely with the Medical team to conceptualise and generate claims for Reckitt’s Professional products. Lucas has also been an integral part of a cross-functional team and has coordinated in unique research with University of Arizona on a QMRA (Quantitative Microbial Risk Assessment) study to demonstrate how the use of Reckitt Pro’s disinfection products when used in the right way and at the right time results in a superior level of hygiene outcome. Lucas was among Reckitt’s key members to deliver Targeted Hygiene Protocols for the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games
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Dr Nick OsborneAssociate Professor of Environmental Epidemiology at University of Queensland School of Public HealthDr Osborne, BSc(Hons), MAgSc, PhD is an epidemiologist and toxicologist with research interests in using environmental epidemiology to examine aetiology and pathological pathways of disease.
He has worked on a range of projects examining environmental exposures and health outcomes including exposure to pollen, mould (fungi), low levels of chemicals, pesticide and cyanotoxins. He is currently working on projects examining pollen allergy, and also chronic kidney disease of unknown origin in LMIC. He also has experience examining how exposure to the environment may increase health and wellbeing (green/bluespace, and solar irradiance and vitamin D).
He has developed skills in the linkage of environmental and population health data in an interdisciplinary context, and has expertise in design, linkage, hypothesis formulation, analysis, interpretation, translation and dissemination.
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Gregory JohnsonProduct Manager, Blackwoods