Got a not-too-pleased call from a client a couple of days ago - the manager of a small medical facility , saying that my crew had done a less than adequate job damp mopping the previous night. We keep a fair amount of back-up on hand daytimes, when most of my crews are fast asleep - an on-call floor...
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Touch-points (door knobs, jambs and push bars, elevator buttons, stair rails, counters, phone hand sets, light switches) have long been an issue. Since the client sees dirt and grubby fingerprints, but not germs, most janitors "clean" for appearance - remove the visible dirt, ignore the pathogens...
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I get a look in a lot of my competitors' janitor closets, and at the kit carried from building to building by the occasional crew doing route work. Lots of unsafe chemicals ; lots of unnecessary chemicals; lots of opportunity for confusion and injury . We find that most buildings can be cleaned,...
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02/03/2010 Just published an e-mail newsletter on the economic benefits of Green Cleaning; it summarizes a number of posts to this blog. We cover cleaning products, recycling, health and Indoor Air Quality, measuring indoor air quality and touch-point sanitation in addition to the tangible benefits of...
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News has just hit that women working in the cleaning industry are at greater than normal risk of giving birth to children with birth defects - along with women working as biologists, chemical scientists and pharmacists. The study is published in the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine...
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01-26-2010
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