- University News Archive - 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock /news-archive/tag/sandra-vail/ 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock Thu, 06 Aug 2020 20:50:53 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock Facilities Management staff creates PPE kits for students, employees /news-archive/2020/08/06/pppe-kits/ Thu, 06 Aug 2020 20:50:53 +0000 /news/?p=77267 ... 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock Facilities Management staff creates PPE kits for students, employees]]> 鈥淎 lot of the effort has come from the custodial staff,鈥 said Sandra Vail, director of operations and services. 鈥淔acilities Management wants to help keep all of us safe and healthy. We are happy to create these kits for our campus family.鈥 The kits contain hand sanitizer, face masks, and a digital thermometer. Much of the hand sanitizer is coming from a donation the university received from Peach Layne earlier in the summer. It has truly been a team effort that takes all hands on deck. Four people can work on the assembly line while maintaining social distance guidelines. When Cadence Baize, administrative analyst, is not working on the assembly line, she鈥檚 often cutting elastic string for face masks while she is participating in virtual meetings at her desk. 鈥淲e are putting in our best for this effort,鈥 Baize said. 鈥淜endrick Raino even came up with an idea where we can cut multiple strings at a time. We are pulling all of our resources to get the job done.鈥 Facilities Management plans to assemble 9,000 kits before the start of the fall semester on Aug. 24. Kits will be distributed to students during Move-in Week and in stations around campus during the first week of school. Employees will receive their kits from their supervisors. 鈥淚t takes all of us to complete a project like this,鈥 said Vince Rodgers, director of EHS and chemical hygiene. 鈥淓veryone comes together to help from the big things to the small.鈥 In the upper right photo, Facilities Management employees Cadence Baize (left), Vince Rodgers (middle), and Sandra Vail (right) assemble PPE kits for students and employees at 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock.]]> In midst of hand sanitizer shortage, Facilities Management staff make their own /news-archive/2020/04/13/facilities-management-hand-sanitizer-shortage-facilities-management/ Mon, 13 Apr 2020 19:16:44 +0000 /news/?p=76500 ... In midst of hand sanitizer shortage, Facilities Management staff make their own]]> With hand sanitizer being one of the highly coveted and hard-to-get items around the country, 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock鈥檚 Office of Facilities Management has taken a proactive approach and has begun making their own supply for the campus community. 鈥淲e were all concerned about the availability of hand sanitizers for the university and foresaw the possibility that it might be an issue,鈥 said Vince Rodgers, director of EHS and chemical hygiene. 鈥淥ur boss recommended we look into how to make hand sanitizer. We decided to just pull the trigger while the ingredients are still readily available.鈥 Facilities Management staff anticipated a run on hand sanitizers and ordered ingredients so they could make their own in a pinch. As suspected, a supply order for hand sanitizers fell through so staff members got busy. Facilities Management staff who participated in making the hand sanitizers include Rodgers, Sandra Vail, director of Facilities Management operations and services, Leslie Hutchins, director of planning and capital construction, and Cadence Baize, administrative assistant.
Leslie Hutchins holds a bottle of the hand sanitizer made by Facilities Management staff.

Leslie Hutchins holds a bottle of the hand sanitizer made by Facilities Management staff.

The 140 bottles of hand sanitizer were made with two-thirds isopropyl alcohol 99 percent and one-third triple Lanolin Aloe Vera lotion. Bottles of hand sanitizer have been delivered to the open offices on campus and have been placed in cleaning sanitizing kits Facilities Management staff are delivering to computer and research labs around campus. 鈥淭here are a lot of YouTube videos that show you how to make your own hand sanitizer,鈥 Vail said. 鈥淚t鈥檚 just a matter of getting the supplies that you need. We have the equipment and supplies ready to make more if the campus needs it.鈥 In the upper right photo, Sandra Vail, left, and Vince Rodgers, right, transport the hand sanitizers made by Facilities Management for use on the 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock campus.]]>