Color coding your cleaning closet and assigning each color to a specific area will significantly reduce the potential for cross-contamination between rooms and surfaces.
Prevent Cross-Contamination With Color-Coded Cleaning
Color coding cleaning equipment serves a similar function across every industry and business type:
Prevent cross-contamination.
Implementing Lean principles--started by the Ford Motor Company and popularized by the Toyota Motor Corporation--into your organizations cleaning practices will eliminate human and other resource waste.
How to Reduce Cleaning Department Waste Through Lean Management
For any number of reasons--ranging from a lack of experience and training in new hires to the mismanagement of resources--your organizations cleaning department is likely responsible for a significant amount of waste--be that time, energy, or material.
To no one's surprise, certain areas in public restrooms can be pretty gross, but what may be surprising to many is that it's almost never the toilet seat.
How Dirty are Public Restrooms?
Public restrooms are everywhere, and Americans use them a lot.
[...] nearly 60 percent of Americans say they use a public restroom one to five times a week.
Conflicting studies have recently emerged regarding the views and trends--issues and challenges--of workstation sharing, colloquially referred to as hotdesking.
Emerging Shared Workstation Trends and Challenges
Open office spaces are nothing new in the U.S., and studies show that, despite workforce objections, the trend will increase in the coming years, presenting several challenges for office workers, custodial staff, and facilities managers.
Indoor air quality is a critical component of a highly productive workplace and learning environment--here are some tips on how to improve and maintain it at a high level.
How Indoor Air Quality Affects Building Occupants
Indoor air quality (IAQ) is something that you only think about when there is a problem.
A messy, cluttered office is repelling your workforce and costing your business big time in lost productivity due to dismal workforce engagement.
Messy Offices and Workforce Engagement
Two critical components of a productive workforce are worker happiness and engagement--byproducts of a clean, safe, organized workplace.
Summertime allergens--pollen from trees, flowers, and grass--will wreak havoc on the health and productivity of students, faculty, and office workers alike.
The Effects of Summertime Allergens
Indoor summertime allergens--typically outdoor pollen and dust tracked in on peoples' shoes--represents a significant challenge for facilities managers, school administrators, and business owners concerned with occupant health, safety, and productivity.
Student absenteeism represents a significant challenge for teachers, school administrators, students, and parents.
Student Absenteeism by the Numbers
Student absenteeism is a major problem in the United States.
According to the U.S. Department of Education:
One in six students--more than 7 million, or 16 percent of the U.S. population--was absent three or more weeks during the 2015-16 school year, totaling more than 100 million lost days.
Although overshadowed by the rise in measle outbreaks in the U.S., instances of mumps, a painful, though rarely fatal, viral infection has also seen an increase.
Mumps in Close Communities
Mumps--previously, almost exclusively a childhood ailment--has been all but wiped out as a result of widespread vaccination.
Outsourcing your organization's cleaning and infection control requirements to a professional service provider has several benefits, including demonstrable increases in productivity and occupant health.
Why Your Business Needs Professional Office Cleaning Services
A truly dedicated team of custodial workers are, more often than not, the unsung heroes behind the success of many businesses--providing vital services that, not only maintain the look and functionality of the facilities we use daily but protect the health and safety of every person who enters the complex.