With fall slowly beginning, it’s the perfect time to start preparing for the inevitable flu season. In high-traffic environments like schools, hospitals, and large facilities, illnesses can spread quickly. Keeping your facility clean and ensuring proper hand hygiene practices are the most effective ways to protect against the flu.

Symmetry's^® complete line of hand hygiene products and Behavior Modification System (SBMS) help make maintaining a healthy environment easier than ever. From hand washes and sanitizers to strategically placed dispensers, the Symmetry Hand Hygiene Program is designed to fit the specific needs of your facility and encourage flu prevention.

The Symmetry Behavior Modification System (SBMS)

Symmetry employs behavioral science to promote better hand hygiene practices, especially during flu season when hygiene is key. SBMS uses tools like color cues, mirrors, floor decals, and flashing signs, all strategically designed to influence behavior and increase hand hygiene compliance.

This flu season, Symmetry’s Behavior Modification tools add a layer of immediacy to your hand hygiene program. Unique placards and signs with motivational messages can be placed in high-traffic areas, capturing attention and prompting immediate hand sanitizing or washing. SBMS is designed to drive action and INSPIRE hand hygiene.

Eco^®  Proportioning Program

Hand hygiene is just one piece of the puzzle in keeping facilities flu-free. To maintain a safe and healthy environment, especially during flu season, comprehensive cleaning and disinfecting are essential.

Buckeye’s Eco Proportioning Program offers a fully integrated solution that simplifies janitorial tasks and boosts efficiency. Designed with proprietary technology, the Eco Proportioning System delivers customized, super-concentrated cleaning products that save space, reduce waste, and optimize performance—keeping your facility ready to fight the flu.

Key features of the Eco Proportioning Program include:

Compact Design: Install Buckeye Eco proportioning systems in any custodial closet to maximize storage space.

Green Cleaning: Eco products are designed for maximum effectiveness while being ecologically safer, with several products certified by Green Seal™.

Flexible Packaging: Reduce product waste with flexible packaging that delivers a 99.9% product evacuation rate.

Super Concentrated Products: Buckeye’s concentrated formulas reduce labor time and deliver superior end-use cost savings.

Proprietary Technology: The innovative design of the Eco proportioning system ensures maximum efficiency during flu season and beyond.

Disinfectants for Flu Season

The Eco Proportioning Program includes two key disinfectants to further safeguard your facility during flu season: Buckeye Eco^® One-Step Disinfectant/Deodorizer/Cleaner E22 and Buckeye Eco^® Neutral Disinfectant E23 S23. Both products provide powerful, EPA-registered disinfection to keep your facility clean and safe.

Buckeye also offers a variety of other disinfectants designed for commercial cleaning, utilizing proprietary technology to ensure optimal performance against germs and viruses.

These disinfectants are quaternary ammonium, phenolic, and alcohol-based formulas that are EPA-registered and meet OSHA bloodborne pathogen standards. With a range of scent options, Buckeye disinfectants leave your facility not only thoroughly cleaned but also refreshed with pleasant aromas—offering a reliable line of defense against harmful pathogens during flu season.

Honors Training Program

Preparing for flu season requires not only the right products but also proper training. Buckeye’s Honors Program offers comprehensive training resources designed specifically for schools, universities, and large facilities. The program provides tools to reduce labor and costs while ensuring cleaning and disinfection meet the highest standards.

Through in-depth video tutorials on floor care, high-touch surface cleaning, and more, Buckeye ensures your staff is well-prepared. The program offers downloadable training manuals, Safety Data Sheets (SDS), and customizable wall charts, equipping your team with everything they need for flu season preparedness.

Get Ahead of The Flu

Flu season can feel overwhelming, but with Symmetry’s Behavior Modification System and Buckeye’s Eco Proportioning and Honors Programs, your facility will have the tools needed to stay healthy and prevent the spread of illness. From innovative hand hygiene products to effective disinfectants and in-depth training resources, Symmetry and Buckeye offer a complete solution for flu season preparation.

Contact your local representative today to learn more about how Symmetry and Buckeye can help you stay ahead of the flu.

It is that time again. Students and faculty are gearing up for another school year. Is your school custodial staff prepared? If not, we can help prepare you with our back-to-school programs. An effective cleaning and maintenance program will keep your school or university looking its best. Buckeye offers full facility solutions. We have everything a school needs to stay clean throughout the year.

The Buckeye Hard Floor Care Program

Floors are one of the first things people see when they walk into your school or university. It is essential to keep your floor looking its best and durable throughout the year.

From muddy shoes to spills, the best way to maintain your floors is to implement a good floor care program that utilizes superior products requiring less labor.

Buckeye’s Hard Floor Care Program is built on standardized procedures and the highest quality products to save you money.

Buckeye has floor finishes formulated with proprietary technology that never yellows or powders, floor strippers formulated with patented liquescent technology to help remove floor finishes in one application without harsh odor, and floor cleaners that make maintaining your floors efficient without attacking floor finishes.

We make maintaining your floor easier. No matter what floor type, equipment, or maintenance needs you have, we will help you customize your school or university's most successful floor care program.

The Symmetry^® Hand Hygiene Program

With another school year starting comes flu season—what better way to be prepared than by utilizing Symmetry's Hand Hygiene Program for your school.

Symmetry's Hand Hygiene Program offers customizable education, awareness, and behavioral modification tools to help you maximize hand hygiene practices in your school or university. Symmetry’s complete line of hand hygiene products includes hand washes and hand sanitizers.

Implement tools such as wall charts, posters, placards, and signs that highlight the importance of healthy hygiene.

Also, Symmetry offers customizable dispensers for any school or university setting. showcase your school mascot and colors on each dispenser to rally school spirit!

Buckeye's Eco^® Proportioing Program

A school can only stay clean with the proper custodial tools. Buckeye’s Eco Proportioning Program offers every product you need to keep your school looking its best and fully equip your staff for the school year.

Each Eco product is powerful and ecologically safer, cleaning faster without compromising worker safety.

Buckeye Eco Proportioning offers three different systems to fit any custodial closet, including our Eco Pro, which can dilute up to 6 applications; Eco Element, which can dilute up to 3 applications; and Eco Edge, which allows for 2 mop bucket applications and 1 spray bottle application.

Each of our Eco Proportioning systems is compact, self-contained, and features a cohesive user interface to automatically dilute product correctly every time.

Gateway^® Liners

As school lunches arrive, so does the need for strong liners that are durable and dense. Gateway liners are not only manufactured stronger than other leading brands but are lighter and fit your specific needs.

Our liners bring value to a commodity market, combining the highest quality resins, superior processing and innovative testing methods to achieve industry leading strength, quality and consistency.

Gateway Liners can provide you with the lightest, strongest liners that work 100% of the time. On average, Gateway customers reduce the amount of plastic reaching landfills by 39%.

Using Gateway Liners provides your school with not only lighter but durable liners, and a sustainable product that helps your school stay green by reducing the overall usage of plastic.

Buckeye's Reflections^® Wood Floor Program 

Every student looks forward to seeing a shiny floor in the gym and with the Basketball season approaching , a high performing floor program is essential.

With our Buckeye Reflections Wood Floor Program, you can get a brilliant shine, excellent durability, and extended life for your floors. With easy-to-follow instructions, cost-effective products, and years of beauty provided, our program will exceed all expectations.

Our water-based wood floor coatings have some of the country's lowest VOCs (Volatile Organic Compounds). Because of these low VOCs, you may even choose to prep the gym floor during school hours.

Our program also includes:

Coliseum® Low VOC Sanding Seal

Gym Bond

Screen Clean™

Tenacity®

Floortonic®

Buckeye Green Light™

When you are ready to coat your wood floor, the Buckeye Reflections Wood Floor Program covers the proper techniques for applying oil and water-based wood floor coatings, including recommended product coverage, dry times, cure times, recoat windows, and more.

Buckeye's Honors Custodial Training Program

Buckeye's Honors Custodial Training Program is a complete custodial program for schools and universities that presents the products, procedures, and training needed to meet a school or university's highest standards.

This training program incorporates multi-purpose products that reduce labor with easy-to-follow procedures and the resources you need to clean and maintain a school or university.

Buckeye's Honors Website features the complete program and materials available 24 hours a day for your convenience. Log in and view Honors training video segments for everything from routine cleaning to product safety. Corresponding with each video, you may also download customizable PowerPoint presentations, training manuals, Safety Data Sheets (SDS), product literature, and wall charts.

Want to keep track of your employee's learning?

The Honors Program also offers a reporting dashboard, online testing, and facility assessment surveys.

Make this school year great with Buckeye’s programs, tools, and resources for your custodial staff. Click here to learn more about our school programs.

Contact your nearest representative to get started today.

Knowing the proper procedures to keep a school clean is important for the safety of students and staff, but finding effective training for custodians can be a difficult job. The Buckeye Honors^® Custodial Training Program for Schools and Universities offers standardized procedures to help clean any area of your school or university.

Routine Cleaning Procedures with Honors

Honors has broken down routine cleaning into 5 simple steps.

1. High Dust

Clean each room in a clockwise pattern from high to low until all surfaces have been dusted.

2. Spot Clean/Remove Graffiti

Spot clean all nonporous surfaces with Buckeye Eco® All-Purpose Cleaner E11.

Clean glass and dry erase boards with Buckeye Eco Multi-Purpose Glass Cleaner E13. 

Spray tough soils with Buckeye Eco Muscle Cleaner E14. Let it dwell for 3 minutes. For stubborn stains, agitate the area and then wipe it clean with a paper towel or microfiber cloth. 

3. Dust Mop or Sweep

Sweep and scrape up items stuck to the floor with a putty knife before dust mopping, being careful not to gouge the floor.

4. Empty Trash

Avoid pushing down on the trash as there may be sharp objects in the trash bag.

5. Damp Mop

Post “Wet Floor” signs at the area entrance. Outline the area with a damp mop and fill using a figure-8 technique.

Download our wall chart to help guide the cleaning process.

The Complete Honors Program

Routine cleaning is only part of keeping a school clean. The Honors Program provides training in routine cleaning, restroom, shower and locker room cleaning, carpet care, hard floor care, gym floor care, food service procedures, summer cleaning procedures, and product safety.

Each video breaks down the procedures and equipment needed for each custodial task. The Honors website serves as an online custodial training manual with resources including wall charts, Safety Data Sheets (SDS), product literature, and more. Your custodial staff will have 24/7 access to all of the tools they need to keep your school clean.

Honors also offers reporting, testing, and surveys to monitor the level of cleanliness in your facilities. Contact a Buckeye representative to learn about all Honors features and resources.

With cafeterias, restrooms, locker rooms, classrooms, gymnasiums, and hallways, maintaining a high standard of cleanliness in all areas of a school is challenging. Having the right tools to keep schools clean for students is a major component of a successful maintenance program. If your custodial team spans across multiple facilities, Buckeye Honors® is a great tool that can help you keep track of training and monitor the needs of each facility.

Surveys

With customizable surveys, Honors makes it easy to track the progress made in each of your school’s facilities. These surveys allow you to evaluate the cleanliness of parts of your facility. They are customizable, giving you the option to rate specific classrooms, school grounds, locker rooms, and more.

Staff can:
Rate the area being surveyed from 1-5
Upload photos of the area
Leave comments and concerns

For school districts and universities that need to monitor several facilities, Honors surveys make it easy to assess the cleanliness of all areas.

Additional Features

Honors serves as a training website for custodial staff of schools and universities. It provides 24-hour access to resources including training videos, posters, wall charts, PowerPoints, and checklists. With Honors training videos, your staff will gain a complete understanding of proper daily, interim, and restorative maintenance procedures. You can also test new trainees on these procedures and review their answers with the Honors reporting system.

Honors can help you standardize your maintenance procedures across your school, school district, or university. Contact your Buckeye representative to learn more.

Buckeye has always emphasized complete cleaning programs over individual products. With a complete program, maintenance staff receive all of the resources and training they need to keep facilities looking their best. Each Buckeye program is equipped with training materials that standardize cleaning procedures and promote human health and environmental safety.

Buckeye’s in-person training is offered by market-specific representatives. These representatives receive specialized training and can expertly advise on maintenance issues from cleaning and disinfecting to floor care and hand hygiene. Each of Buckeye’s maintenance programs also comes with tools and resources like posters, signs, and wall charts to assist staff with proper procedures and product identification.

To compliment in-person training, Buckeye offers market-specific training programs for schools, hospitals, long-term care facilities, retail facilities, correctional facilities, and gyms. These training programs include step-by-step instructional videos, detailed yet clearly presented procedure manuals, and easy-to-follow wall charts or flip charts.

The Buckeye Honors^® Custodial Training Program for schools and universities is the most advanced of Buckeye’s training programs, providing 24/7 access to videos and training material at buckeyehonors.com. These videos and materials are accompanied by tests that asses knowledge of procedures. Administrators can then view reporting on team member test scores. 

Honors provides additional resources like customizable PowerPoint presentations, training manuals, Safety Data Sheets (SDS), product literature, and wall charts. The website also includes a surveys feature, allowing admins to assess the current state of a school or university.

No matter the facility or maintenance needs, Buckeye has the resources and training materials necessary to produce excellent results. Contact your local representative for more information about Buckeye training programs.

Oftentimes, facility maintenance managers will hire contractors to recoat their gyms floors. Because wood floors can be one of the most expensive floors in a facility, staff members don’t want to risk damaging them with improper equipment and inexperience. While recoating a wood floor does require a specific skillset, Reflections has experienced representatives who can train facility maintenance staff to recoat wood floors without compromising their quality, durability, and beauty.

Wood floor contractors can be a costly expense. By training staff members to recoat wood floors in house, facilities can cut down on costs. In person and online training are available through the Reflections Wood Floor Program to train staff members on proper technique, equipment, and products.

The Reflections^® Wood Floor Program can help facilities get the most out of their wood floors. With products and procedures that can extend the life and beauty of your wood floors, Reflections creates a custom program for each facility’s unique needs. Reflections representatives assess the floor, noting things like the age of the floor, damaged areas, and previous maintenance procedures in order to create the best program for that facility.

Because the Reflections program uses equipment most facilities already have, there are no added equipment costs. Training, both in person and online, can make recoating your wood floors easier, and in some cases, faster. Reflections water-based wood floor coatings allow for light sports play on gym floors only 48 hours after recoating.

For added protection, Arena^® 300 Microban^® Antimicrobial Wood Floor Coating utilizes Microban antimicrobial product protection to help inhibit the growth of bacteria. Microban protection is built into Arena 300 during the manufacturing process. When microbes come in contact with the product surface, Microban protection penetrates the cell wall of the microorganism and disrupts the cell, making the microorganism unable to grow and reproduce.

Once a floor has been recoated, Reflections will help facilities maintain their floors between recoats. In addition to in-person training, staff members have access to wall charts, literature, and videos that can guide them through each maintenance process. The Honors^® Custodial Training Program for Schools and Universities can also help guide staff members through each process with videos, PowerPoints, and literature. Honors is available 24/7 online, and comes with additional features like tests and reporting.

Make wood floor maintenance a priority this summer. Contact your local representative to schedule a Buckeye Reflections product demonstration or host a wood floor seminar at your facility.

As K-12 schools develop plans for reopening during 2021, having a comprehensive training program for custodial staff is a priority. While schools and universities navigate reopening, Buckeye continues to take a proactive approach in our effort to prevent illness. Buckeye programs strive to educate custodial staff on the importance of best cleaning, disinfecting, and hand hygiene practices.

The Buckeye Honors Custodial Training Program

The Buckeye Honors® Custodial Training Program presents the products, procedures, and training needed to meet a school or university’s highest standards. Buckeye's goal is to make cleaning and maintenance procedures easy and rewarding, providing products that are safer for the worker and environment that produce excellent results.

The Honors website features the complete program and materials available 24 hours a day for your convenience. Watch videos, read product literature, and follow wallcharts before assessing your knowledge with tests available for each segment.

COVID-19 Additions

Honors now features videos and tests on enhanced disinfecting and proper hand hygiene procedures during COVID-19. The Honors manual has also been updated to include these new procedures. New downloadable wallcharts, posters, and checklists are available to guide your staff through these procedures.

Contact your local representative to learn more about Honors and find out how Buckeye can help your school or university reduce the spread of COVID-19. 

On Dec 27, 2020, the COVID-19 Relief Package was signed into law, providing additional financial assistance to K-12 schools. This funding can be used towards cleaning supplies and programs, staff training, and other resources needed to address coronavirus in schools.

The new relief package allows for a broad range of uses and specifically mentions:

• Providing resources for principles to address coronavirus in their schools
• Training staff on the best ways to sanitize and schools and proper use of personal protective equipment
• Purchasing PPE and the supplies needed to clean and disinfect schools

Find more information on the COVID-19 relief package here.

How Can Buckeye Help? 

Buckeye’s maintenance programs provide door to floor protection for schools. Buckeye’s 4 levels of protection include hand hygiene, cleaning and disinfecting, antimicrobial floor protection, and custodial training that follows CDC recommendations.

Level 1: Symmetry^® Hand Hygiene Program

The CDC states that hand washing is one of the best ways to help reduce the spread of germs. The Symmetry Hand Hygiene Program provides tools that promote education, awareness, and motivation to practice hand hygiene.

Level 2: Eco^® Proportioning Program

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has approved several Buckeye products for use against SARS-Related Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) [cause of COVID-19], including Buckeye Eco One-Step Disinfectant-Deodorizer-Cleaner E22.

Following CDC guidelines and label directions, clean and disinfect frequently touched objects with the help of the Eco Proportioning Program. Buckeye’s Eco Proportioning Program is fully integrated with effective, hermetically sealed products for any applications.

Level 3: Clarion^® 25 Microban^® Antimicrobial Floor Finish

Continually protect your facility with Clarion 25 Microban Antimicrobial Floor Finish and Arena^® 300 Microban Antimicrobial Wood Floor Coating. While not a substitute for normal cleaning practices, Microban protection continuously fights the growth of microbes, and makes floors easier to clean - keeping them cleaner, longer at no additional cost to you.

Level 4: Honors^® Custodial Training Program

The Buckeye Honors Program is a complete custodial program for schools and universities that presents the products, procedures, and training needed to meet a school or university’s highest standards. Honors features videos and tests on enhanced disinfecting and proper hand hygiene procedures during COVID-19.

For more information about all of Buckeye’s cleaning programs and how Buckeye can help your school combat COVID-19, contact your local Buckeye representative.

Did you know that 90% of a floor maintenance budget is spent on labor?

Reducing the amount of labor it takes to strip and refinish floors provides the biggest opportunity for total program cost savings. Buckeye has developed its Hard Floor Care Program with superior products and training in proper techniques to maximize labor savings. With Buckeye’s Hard Floor Care Program, facilities can save 20-40% of their floor maintenance budget.

Superior Products

Buckeye products are developed with patented Liquescent^® technology. This water-based technology strengthens the cleaning power of Buckeye products and replaces hazardous chemical ingredients including butyl, ammonia, solvents, and alcohol bases. Products like Buckeye’s RipSaw^® Floor Stripper use this technology to remove floor finish in one application.

Buckeye’s floor finishes use Renaissance^® Performance Polymers, specifically designed for Buckeye. Competitors buy polymers from companies who do not specialize in making floor finishes. Renaissance replicates exact polymer specifications for Buckeye floor finishes, which guarantees consistent results for customers. Because of this, Renaissance helps Buckeye floor finishes achieve maximum durability and water-clear clarity.

Clarion 25^® Microban Antimicrobial Floor Finish 

In addition to providing clarity and durability, Clarion 25 with Microban Technology provides 24/7 antimicrobial product protection. When microbes come in contact with the product surface, Microban technology penetrates the cell wall of the microorganism and disrupts the cell, making the microorganism unable to grow and reproduce.

Customized Training

Buckeye’s Hard Floor Care Program is tailored to your facility. Buckeye representatives provide in-person training to ensure staff members have a solid understanding of proper procedures. One Jacksonville, FL school’s head custodian notes Buckeye’s attention to training, saying, “The reps stand out, always coming by to check on me, offer help, or provide training.”

For schools and universities, Buckeye also provides the Honors^® Custodial Training Program. Available 24/7, this online program is complete with videos and tests to improve staff knowledge. Supervisors can view reports on test scores and conduct facility surveys to see how maintenance has improved over time.

To see how Buckeye’s Hard Floor Care Program can be customized to fit your facility, contact your local Buckeye representative.

The Eco^® Proportioning Program can help standardize cleaning in any facility. With cleaners, disinfectants, sanitizers, and odor eliminators all dispensable from one system, Eco makes cleaning easy for staff of any facility.

There are three compact Eco proportioning systems, made to fit in virtually any custodial closet. Designed for broad spectrum cleaning, the Eco Pro can dilute for up to six different applications. The more compact Eco Element and Edge are designed for remote, satellite, and focused applications, each diluting for up to three applications. Each proportioning system operates the same, automatically diluting products with the press of a button, taking the guess work out of product dilution.

Eco’s extensive product line provides products to clean any part of your facility. They are each color and number coded to make proportioning even easier. Each product’s number and color match with its corresponding bottle and proportioning system dispenser. Recently a church in Phoenix, AZ switched from ready-to-use products to the Eco Proportioning Program. They had also been using several different product dispensers throughout their facilities, making diluting cleaners a confusing, time consuming process. The Eco proportioning systems automatically diluted products and each Eco product, bottle, and dispenser is labeled with a corresponding color and number making it easy to distinguish between products. Switching to Eco helped consolidate their cleaning supplies and develop a better cleaning system.

For schools looking to implement the Eco Proportioning Program, Buckeye’s Honors Custodial Training Program can help guide staff as they clean. Available 24 hours a day, the Honors Program provides training in routine cleaning, restroom, shower and locker room cleaning, carpet care, hard floor care, gym floor care, food service procedures, summer cleaning procedures, and product safety. The program presents easy to follow procedures that are researched and proven to increase efficiency with videos, tests, training manuals, product literature, and wall charts.

For more information about the Eco Proportioning Program and how it can simplify cleaning in your facility, contact your local Buckeye representative.