Crotega Launches REPULS Defense Spray To Help Safeguard Workers in the Healthcare Industry

A Revolutionary Next Generation Water-Based Irritant Spray That Redefines Non-Lethal Personal Protection

Crotega Safety Solutions is proud to announce that its next generation of REPULS® water-based irritant spray is being adopted by hundreds of medical facilities across the United States. REPULS Defense Spray is a unique patented ocular irritant that causes immediate involuntary eye closure and disrupts the attacker’s ability to focus. Crotega’s REPULS Defense Spray products can be immediately deployed by nurses, doctors, other medical staff, and security personnel to confront a violent threat and provide time to regain control of a confrontation.

Violence against doctors, nurses, and other healthcare workers is a growing epidemic across the United States. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that healthcare professionals are five times more likely to experience workplace violence than workers in any other industry. By design, hospitals and other medical facilities are “soft targets” since their facilities are intended to be easily accessible to the public with many entrances and exits. The rise in planned attacks has forced medical facilities to develop active assailant preparedness plans. Many have been trained in “Run-Hide-Fight” emergency protocols, but the healthcare industry remains in need of a revolutionary non-lethal solution like REPULS that will not leave medical staff completely helpless until law enforcement or facility security arrives.

The key game-changing advantages of REPULS for medical staff protection include:

Eco-Friendly Ingredients
• Formulated with water and chemical agents used in food, animal feed, and cosmetics.
• No capsaicin or hot chili pepper oils that can cause severe respiratory distress.
• REPULS contains a soluble-blue-dye to easily identify the assailant.

Targeted Liquid Spray Precision
• Not an aerosol spray that contaminates everything it touches.
• No cross-contamination of others. No blowback on the user.
• A liquid spray provides better accuracy than an aerosol spray.

Indoor Safe Technology
• The only deterrent spray approved for safe indoor and in-vehicle use.
• Pepper sprays can leave behind a residue that could impact people who come in touch with it long after it was sprayed.

Quick Mitigation / Easy Clean-Up
• Ability to mitigate REPULS in a few minutes by flushing eyes with water or saline.
• Water will reactivate pepper spray by causing the residue to become active again.
• REPULS is easily cleaned off surfaces with water and a mild cleaning solution.

REPULS Defense Spray comes in a variety of convenient handheld models ranging from quick-release keychains and pocket-clips for personal protection to higher capacity spray canisters fitted for holsters that can be worn on security officer service belts.

Captain Michael Ramos, Security Manager for a Level One Trauma Center, commented, “In my 13 years with our trauma center’s security department, there has been minimal to no use of traditional oleoresin capsicum or pepper spray because of the fear of cross contamination with other officers, our medical staff members and, especially, the compromised patients in the hospital. Once we started using REPULS with our defensive tactics and training, security officer injuries went down by 40%. Overall, REPULS has been a game-changer as it is the only deterrent spray that can be safely used indoors. REPULS has empowered us to work more effectively and keep everyone safe!”

About Crotega LLC
Crotega LLC, (dba Crotega Safety Solutions), was formed with a vision of saving lives and enhancing personal safety. Inspired by the need to find a better way to “Deter, Disrupt, and Delay™ active assailants and threatening perpetrators, Crotega brought together chemists and engineering experts to design, test, and patent a next-generation eco-friendly water-based irritant spray named REPULS®. REPULS is an ASTORS Platinum Award Winner which is the preeminent U.S. Security Awards Program highlighting the most cutting-edge and forward-thinking security solutions coming onto the market today.

In addition to handheld canisters, REPULS is utilized in Crotega’s ceiling mounted SentriZone™, an innovative building intruder defense shield for protecting building occupants which has the potential to change building infrastructure safety in the same manner that fire sprinklers have done for fire safety and control. The company has also developed a ruggedized REPULS Spray SentriPak™ for crowd control and a discreet unmanned remote drone-like vehicle called Sentri-Launch™.

For additional information on Crotega’s law enforcement and building safety solutions, visit www.crotega.com.

To explore the Crotega consumer self-defense online store, visit www.repulsdefensespray.com.

Media Contact:
Lyle Jensen REPULS Defense Spray
(612) 547-3207
contact@crotega.com

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