A school year starts twice: once in August when the students arrive, and weeks earlier when facilities teams get the building ready for them. The second start decides how the first one goes. Here is what should be on hand before the buses roll.
Custodial core
- Floor care: summer is strip-and-wax season, so finish, stripper, pads, and a serviced floor machine come first
- Daily chemistry: neutral cleaners, disinfectants, restroom care, and glass cleaner at full-year volumes
- Paper and liners at September burn rates, which are always higher than June's
Hand hygiene where kids actually are
Dispensers belong at entrances, cafeterias, gyms, and nurse's offices — checked, filled, and mounted at heights children can reach. Formulation matters more in schools than almost anywhere: a water-based, alcohol-free sanitizer like Covexall is non-flammable, which simplifies where it can be placed and stored, and its nontoxic formula is safer around young children — while still killing 99.9 percent of pathogens on contact.
The health office
Gloves, masks, exam supplies, and first-aid restock before the first scraped knee, not after. School nurses staffed the front line of every recent respiratory season; September is when their shelves should be deepest.
Order in July, breathe in August
Districts buy on the same calendar, and suppliers feel it. Orders placed in July ship from stock and arrive before teacher workdays. ASP supplies the full list — chemicals, paper, dispensers, floor equipment, health office consumables — through one vendor, one delivery, and one purchase order, with public-sector purchasing experience built in.
Covexall is a topical hand sanitizer for external use only. Performance figures referenced in this article are drawn from the 2022 Covexall white paper and the independent laboratory studies cited in it, including testing conducted at Arizona State University's Biodesign Institute. Continued antimicrobial activity lasts up to four hours after application.
