The difference between cleaning, disinfecting, and sanitizing
From the beginning of the pandemic by Covid 19 has been made wide use of the words cleaning, disinfection , and sanitization. These are activities that constitute the core business of the Ariete, and whose common goal is to make the environments more healthy and free from germs, bacteria, viruses and dust.
These terms are often mistakenly considered to be interchangeable. To know more in detail their meaning, starting from the origin and, therefore, from the verb, it may be useful to be able to grasp the differences.
- Clean: free from dirt, objects, furniture, and similar actions through manual or mechanical assisted by washing.
- Disinfection: disinfect an environment for the reduction of the microbial load (not to be confused with rid: rid a person, an animal or a place to insects, small animals, harmful, plant-intrusive, etc), with specific products that you configure as a PMC (Medical-Surgical) or Biocidal products.
- Sanitize: to make it healthy, healing with the intent to eliminate all that cleaning and disinfection does not remove, by processes that also include the control of ventilation, humidity and cleanliness of the environment.
It is, therefore, of the three different meanings, and the three different levels of intervention for the care of the environment. Each action can be considered as the improvement and completion of the previous one.