Custodial work, once considered unskilled labor, is now a highly technical profession requiring a wide range of skills from both service providers and management to ensure the highest standards of cleanliness, occupant safety, and customer satisfaction.

Entryway matting helps maintain the professional image of the facility, protects the built environment from wear and tear, protects occupants from slips, trips, and fall accidents, and reduces the amount of soil tracked into the facility, resulting in lower overall cleaning costs.

Going green with your facility's cleaning services means more than doing your part to help preserve natural resources and protect the environment--it means committing your organization to the lifelong health, safety, and mental wellbeing of everyone who uses your building!

Promoting Occupant Health by Greening Your Facility Cleaning
Green cleaning is often promoted as a method for achieving sustainable business operations, protecting environmental resources, eliminating toxic pollutants, and creating less waste.

Facility cleanliness and hygiene are top priorities for office workers, shoppers, diners, and vacationers across nearly every industry and corresponds directly to business success.

The Value of Cleanliness to Consumers and Office Workers
Facility occupants ranging from office workers to diners and hospitality guests rank building cleanliness and hygiene incredibly high on their list of must-haves to ensure a positive and potentially repeatable experience.

The commercial cleaning industry suffers from an alarming 200% annual employee turnover rate that results in poor cleaning outcomes and threats to occupant health--challenges efficiently addressed through outsourcing, and Vanguard Cleaning Systems of the Ozarks is here to help!

Combatting the Challenges of Cleaning Industry Turnover Through Vendor Quality and Consistency
Cleaning industry turnover rates average approximately 75% annually, top out as high as 200%, and range up to 400% for contract cleaning staff.

Due to the challenges and issues that arose during the COVID pandemic, consumers and office workers no longer merely assume a clean, safe, and hygienic facility.

Making It or Breaking It With Facility Cleanliness and Hygiene
Before COVID, consumers and office workers took for granted that the buildings they occupied were clean and safe.

Strong client relationships are necessary for establishing credibility and building trust through consistency and transparency--cornerstones of the Vanguard Cleaning Systems of the Ozarks' business model.

Qualities to Identify When Building Vendor Relationships
Strong vendor relationships increase service quality, outcomes, efficiency, and financial bottom lines.

Routine cleaning of and around urinals and toilets in commercial facilities is mandatory for maintaining the health and safety of the building's occupants, as well as the sanitation and hygiene of the built environment.

The Importance of Regular Urinal and Toilet Cleaning in Commercial Buildings
Commercial toilets and urinals are a constant source of concern for occupants, custodial teams, facilities managers, and building owners.

Intelligent water consumption and conservation are mandatory for ensuring our future, and Vanguard Cleaning Systems of the Ozarks can help!

The Unsustainable Condition of Water Consumption
Water is one of the most vital and prolific elements on the planet, yet only 1 percent is readily available for human use.

Controlling the spread of infectious disease is a multi-stage process--at the heart of which is consistent high-performance cleaning processes--requiring proactive and responsive actions by stakeholders at every level.

Controlling the Spread of Infectious Disease
Surfaces in public facilities serve as reservoirs for infectious disease.