Sustainable green cleaning practices are rapidly trending upward with facilities maintenance and management teams, building occupants, business owners, and school faculty and administrators, due to its demonstrated ability to cost-effectively increase productivity while decrease costs associated with illness and injury acquired in the workplace.
The majority of consumers in the United States had demonstrated a preference for local business establishments with clean, well-maintained restrooms--going so far as to claim they would pay strictly for the use of a clean bathroom.
Clean Restrooms Impact Repeat Business
A recent survey conducted by Bradley Corp.
A cluttered workplace leads to distractions, stress, and contributes to cleaning challenges that can result in a filthy desk and equipment that is covered in germs, ultimately resulting in illness and absenteeism or presenteeism.
Cleaning With KonMari in the Workplace
Clutter in the workplace can be disastrous for personal health, profitability, and productivity, and can be a sign of underlying emotional and psychological challenges facing occupants.
High traffic closed spaces shared by numerous employees, such as break and lunch rooms, are well-documented germ hot spots and likely contribute heavily to the increasingly high number of building occupants identifying the workplace as the source of their illness.
Cross-contamination is an ongoing challenge facing all facilities maintenance and custodial service personnel and represents a significant barrier to the efficacy of even the best cleaning programs.
The Issue With Cross Contamination and How to Address It
To understand the issues with cross-contamination, you must first understand what it is and why it is a problem.
Heat is the eternal enemy of computer equipment--leading to severe and costly damage to sensitive electronic components--and can be significantly exacerbated by the ever-present challenge of dust.
Dust, Heat, and Why Your Computer Equipment Fails
Computer and server hardware is meant to dissipate internal heat generated by electronic components.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has reported a rise in confirmed cases of measles over the last two years--higher than any numbers reported in the previous two decades.
The Rising Case of Measles in the United States
The last decade has borne witness to several spikes demonstrating a troubling rise in confirmed cases of measles.
Routine cleaning and maintenance of your organization's server room and data storage facilities are vital to ensuring the safe continuous operation of your school or businesses critical digital assets.
Server and Data Room Cleaning
Dust and electronic equipment are a recipe for disaster.
Restrooms are teeming with germ hot spots that can make us and everyone around us sick, but they're not always in the places that we suspect.
Identifying Germ Hot Spots in Restrooms
A series of recent studies have destroyed the (justifiable) expectations of public restroom occupants regarding the safe use of the facility-- specifically, the areas surrounding hand sanitation and hygiene, with one study identifying;
[...] genetic traces of more than 77,000 distinct types of bacteria and viruses in these spaces.
Technology is a driving force in modern business, and the custodial industry is no exception--with automation, Internet of Things (IoT) applications, and robotics leading the way.
Technology-Based Cleaning Services
Technology is everywhere, and soon robots will be responsible for the lion's share of the cleaning services commonly employed in large facilities.