Innovative Cleaning Strategies to Improve Facilities Maintenance

Innovative Cleaning Strategies to Improve Facilities Maintenance

During the current period of increased production, innovating new strategies to improve facilities' cleanliness and performance are necessary to maintain competitive advantages while ensuring capital and resources are focused on high-yield investments.

Innovative Cleaning Strategies to Improve Facilities Maintenance - Bakersfield CA

The Crows of Puy du Fou

Puy du Fou, a French theme park, has devised a familiar, but not entirely common strategy to encourage park guests to pick up trash or place rubbish in the appropriate trash can, as opposed to throwing garbage on the ground.

According to NPR;

This week, the Puy du Fou theme park in western France put some new employees in the field: six trained rooks, members of the crow family, picking up small pieces of paper and cigarette butts in exchange for food.

Boubou, Bamboo, Bill, Black, Bricole and Baco officially started their new gigs on Monday.

For the record, the park would like to note, the corvid colleagues are not replacing any human cleaning staff.

French Theme Park Asks: Crows Can Pick Up Trash, Why Can't You?

 

Oslo Underground Waste Management

The city of Oslo carries the distinction of being one of Europe's most populated areas with a bit of a twist--no litter on the streets, but no trash cans to be found.

Underneath the city is an automatic waste disposal system that carries garbage to an incinerator that is used to provide heat to residents.

Oddly, that isn't the most fascinating part.

According to an article published by USA Services;

Oslo also relies on citizens’ actions to keep the city clean.

Through the Rusken campaign, Oslo residents gather to sweep streets, clean up beaches, tidy individual neighborhoods, and more.

The Rusken campaign mascot drives around in a bright yellow electric car, encouraging citizens to join together as a community and participate in the event.

All in all, around 200,000 people take part in the Rusken campaign each year.

Innovative Cleaning Strategies from the World’s Cleanest Cities, and What They Mean for You

 

High-Performance Equipment

High-performance cleaning equipment can provide a higher quality of sanitation, faster, with less personnel, for less money.

Emerging technologies include:

  • Electrostatic disinfection appliances which combine the science of electrostatic surface adherence to disinfectants allowing for 360-degree surface coverage of any surface, including electronics.
  • Nanotech microfilament cloth which provides a superior level of sanitation, even when compared to microfiber towels, as well as providing an increased level of cleaning product or liquid absorption--reducing the amount of time required to clean while ensuring no liquid residue remains.
  • Portable chemical management systems, commonly delivered in the form of pods (yes, those pods) eliminate the guesswork typically employed when diluting cleaning product, as well as the associated waste of water, and the potential for hazardous exposure.  Additional benefits include significantly reduced costs associated with training, transportation, and storage.
  • Foam cleaning systems, which functions as part chemical management system--mixing cleaning product and water for you--and color-coded delivery system, which reduces total cost of ownership.  This technology simplifies wall, gutter, and drain sanitation surfaces by applying a disinfecting foam that works functions in a manner similar to consumer-grade bathroom foam cleaning products.
  • Gamifying the engagement of building occupants and visitors, where tangible rewards for participation are presented in an obvious manner--meaning, you demonstrate in the simplest fashion how participating is going to benefit them with something more than a feel-good reward--is the single best strategy for innovating cleaning for health strategies and practices.

 

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Takeaway

Around the world, facility maintenance and management teams have implemented innovative practices and advanced technology to improve the standard of cleanliness, health, and safety of their facilities without negatively impacting the employment or pay scale of their current workforce.

A critical factor common across the numerous success stories of various large businesses, theme parks, and entire cities has been the engagement and participation of the 'civilian' population.

Encouraging building occupants and guests to take full ownership of the quality of their environment while underscoring the personal benefits of such behavior has been a key indicator in the successful implementation of innovative custodial practices.

Partnering with an experienced green cleaning provider knowledgeable in your industry is a proven method for rapidly adopting new policies and methods for increasing the productivity and satisfaction of customers and building occupants.

If you would like to learn more about partnering with an innovative cleaning and facilities maintenance team--contact us today for a free quote!

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