Lind Equipment Joins Fight Against COVID-19 With UV-C LED Lighting Solution
Lind Equipment, an LED lighting company, has joined the fight against COVID-19 by creating a brand-new product with UV-C LED lights specifically for the healthcare industry. Healthcare professionals can use UV-C light to decontaminate personal protective equipment (PPE) and to decontaminate high traffic areas such as: hospital rooms, ambulances and more.
PPE gear (specifically N95 masks) are in an extreme shortage right now and the situation is not improving. The Center for Disease Control (CDC) in the United States and Canada’s Chief Public Health Officer have all approved the re-use of PPE, but only if specific decontamination methods are used. One of the three approved methods is UV-C lighting. UV-C light is an ultraviolet light that is germicidal, meaning it can kill the RNA within pathogens and render them unable to regenerate. It is a proven method to assist with the decontamination process of hospital rooms, and has been used to clean rooms for decades prior to the current virus outbreak. (CDC link here: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/ppe-strategy/decontamination-reuse-respirators.html)
Lind Equipment is not traditionally a UV-C lighting company, but the current supply of UV-C lights globally is nowhere near enough to help in the fight against COVID-19.
“We could not just stand by and not do our part to help during this pandemic”, said Brian Astl, president of Lind Equipment, “We want to help the front-line workers in any way possible. That is why we came out with this UV-C lighting solution. If there are people you think that can benefit from UV-C lighting to decontaminate their PPE, please, tell them to reach out. We are here to help.”
Lind Equipment is manufacturing a brand-new product, the Lind Apollo UV-C Light and re-tooling the Beacon360 Blaze area light. Both products will be officially on the market in a few short weeks to start assisting in the decontamination of PPE and of areas/vehicles. The lights will be following the requirements of the University of Nebraska protocol, which establishes a standard method for decontaminating PPE. (Nebraska protocol link here: https://www.nebraskamed.com/for-providers/covid19)
Lind Equipment’s goal is to assist the public health sector in any way possible during the COVID-19 crisis. Priority will be given to emergency services, hospitals and any others that need decontaminated, clean environments or gear.
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Michael Roth
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Michael Roth has covered the equipment rental industry full time for RER since 1989 and has served as the magazine’s editor in chief since 1994. He has nearly 30 years experience as a professional journalist. Roth has visited hundreds of rental centers and industry manufacturers, written hundreds of feature stories for RER and thousands of news stories for the magazine and its electronic newsletter RER Reports. Roth has interviewed leading executives for most of the industry’s largest rental companies and manufacturers as well as hundreds of smaller independent companies. He has visited with and reported on rental companies and manufacturers in Europe, Central America and Asia as well as Mexico, Canada and the United States. Roth was co-founder of RER Reports, the industry’s first weekly newsletter, which began as a fax newsletter in 1996, and later became an online newsletter. Roth has spoken at conventions sponsored by the American Rental Association, Associated Equipment Distributors, California Rental Association and other industry events and has spoken before industry groups in several countries. He lives and works in Los Angeles when he’s not traveling to cover industry events.