Most people see the Hygiene Inspection Black Light as a total mystery. While the bulb itself only emits a faint purple light, when turned on various substances will glow. The Hygiene Inspection Black Light lets you see what can’t be seen by the naked eye. It accurately indicates the hygiene and cleanliness standards of your bathrooms, carpet or hard surfaces. Now you can quickly and easily identify bacteria growth and bad odours at the source. You will be amazed and shocked at what is lurking on the surfaces you touch everyday and assume is clean.
Why do so many professional managers and business owners now own a Hygiene Inspection Black Light…
1. Inspection: Keeps your staff, service providers and suppliers honest and on their toes.
2. Sales Tool: Identify and see problem areas, and demonstrate the effective cleaning solution.
3. Training: Improve techniques and procedures through regular assessment
4. Troubleshooting: Identify the source of difficult odours and bacteria related problems.
The Hygiene Inspection Black Light allows you to identify problems such as:
▪ body fluids including urine and blood (Commonly used in crime scene investigation)
▪ bacteria growth and viruses
▪ the source of bad odours – few things effect your image more than being on the nose.
▪ the presence of rats, mice, lice and other insects
which may be caused by…
▪ ineffective cleaning procedures.
▪ cleaning chemicals and cleaning products that don’t work
▪ a need for effective staff training (including motivation)
▪ pest control problems
Most of the uses for the Hygiene Inspection Black Light follow a common theme. The black light makes the invisible visible or isolates one specific substance from everything around it.
The Hygiene Inspection Black Light may assist you make management decisions such as:
▪ Cleaning chemicals and cleaning products supply, service and quality (Am I getting what I pay for?)
▪ Staff or service provider retention (Should I make changes or adjustments to my team?)
▪ Training requirements (Is more time needed for training and supervision?)
▪ Cost savings (How can I save labour and improve productivity?)
How to use a Hygiene Inspection Black Light…
1. Apply Hand Sanitiser Gel to your hands and wrists
2. Put disposable gloves on
3. Turn lights off, block out natural night and ensure area is dark. (Ensure it is 100% safe to do this)
4. Turn your Hygiene Inspection Light on.
5. Place the light over the area to be inspected.
6. Look for glowing materials (eg urine tends to fluoresce a bright green color)
7. When finished turn light off, wipe light with ’Bobby Dazzler’ or similiar and dispose of vinyl gloves.
8. Wash hands thoroughly, dry hands, then apply Hand Sanitiser Gel.
There are some everyday materials that glow or fluoresce, when exposed to the Hygiene Inspection Black Light. The light gives off highly energetic ultraviolet light. This part of the spectrum can’t be seen, which is how ‘black lights’ got their name. Fluorescent substances absorb the ultraviolet light and then re-emit it almost instantaneously. During the process some energy gets lost, so the emitted light has a longer wave length than the absorbed radiation, which makes this light visible and causes the material to appear to ‘glow’.
Here are some other interesting examples of common materials that also glow under the Hygiene Inspection Black Light…
▪ White Paper
White paper made post-1950 is treated with fluorescent compounds to help it appear brighter and whiter. (Sometimes forged historical documents can be detected to see whether or not they fluoresce)
▪ Club Soda or Tonic Water
The bitter flavoring of tonic water is due to the presence of quinine, which glows blue-white when placed under a black light.
▪ Body Fluids
Many body fluids contain fluorescent molecules even fingerprints.
▪ Vitamins
Vitamin A and the B vitamins thiamine, niacin, and riboflavin are strongly fluorescent. Try crushing a vitamin B-12 tablet and dissolving it in vinegar. The solution will glow bright yellow under a black light.
▪ Chlorophyll
Chlorophyll makes plants green, but it fluoresces a blood red color. Grind some spinach or swiss chard in a small amount of alcohol (e.g., vodka or everclear) and pour it through a coffee filter to get chlorophyll extract (you keep the part that stays on the filter, not the liquid). You can see the red glow using a black light or even a strong fluorescent bulb, such as an overhead projector lamp, which (you guessed it) gives off ultraviolet light.
▪ Antifreeze
Manufacturers purposedly include fluorescent additives in antifreeze fluid so that black lights can be used to find antifreeze splashes to help investigators reconstruct automobile accident scenes.
▪ Laundry Detergents
Some of the whiteners in laundry detergent work by making your clothing a bit fluorescent. Even though clothing is rinsed after washing, residues on white clothing cause it to glow bluish-white under a black light. Blueing agents and softening agents often contain fluorescent dyes, too. The presence of these molecules sometimes causes white clothing to appear blue in photographs.
▪ Tooth Whiteners
Whiteners and some enamels contain compounds that glow blue to keep teeth from appearing yellow.
▪ Postage Stamps
Stamps are printed with inks that contain fluorescent dyes.
▪ Jellyfish
If you have a jellyfish handy, see what it looks like under a black light in a darkened room. Some of the proteins within a jellyfish are intensely fluorescent.
▪ Some Minerals and Gems
Fluorescent rocks include fluorite, calcite, gypsum, ruby, talc, opal, agate, quartz, and amber. Minerals and gemstones are most commonly made fluorescent or phosphorescent due to the presence of impurities. The Hope Diamond, which is blue, phosphoresces red for several seconds after exposure to shortwave ultraviolet light.
If you would like to take your organisation to the next level, get a Hygiene Inspection Black Light today.
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