High-performance environmental hygiene and cleaning practices are vital for the health and safety of young children in daycare and Pre-K facilities.
Environmental Cleaning Best Practices for Daycare and Pre-K Facilities
Young children, especially toddlers and infants, are particularly vulnerable to germs and bacteria typically present in school settings due to their underdeveloped immune system and lack of exposure to common illnesses.
Cutting corners in commercial cleaning services is an all-too-common issue that will negatively impact your organization's appearance, performance, and profits.
The Problem With Cutting Corners
Due to the somewhat intrusive nature of commercial cleaning processes, custodians often operate at night under minimal supervision.
Recent studies have shown that clean, clutter-free desks are critical to workplace health, happiness, and productivity.
A Clean Desk is Key to Workplace Productivity
Several recent studies have shown that a messy desk can play host to numerous germs and bacteria--often testing positive or 400 times the germs found on the average office toilet seat, and 100 times less hygienic than a kitchen table.
Electrostatic disinfection technology is the future of cleaning--able to disinfect complex three-dimensional surfaces in a fraction of the time required by conventional cleaning methods--resulting in decreased costs, illnesses, and absences.
The Rise of Electrostatic Disinfection Technology
Electrostatic surface spraying has been in use in the United States for more than 50 years in the farming and industrial arenas--providing complete surface coverage for crops and painted or coated materials.
Surface cross-contamination is the single most significant cleaning challenge facing custodial teams and facilities managers in any building.
What is Surface Cross-Contamination & Why Does it Matter?
Surface cross-contamination is the transfer of germs and bacteria from one surface to another--commonly caused by:
Hand-to-Surface Contact - The five-second rule is a myth.
From where you stand or sit, to the places you wash up, and everything in between--locker rooms are covered in illness-causing germs and bacteria which must be cleaned in a specialized manner to ensure safe use and occupant health.
How Dirty is Your Locker Room?
School and fitness center locker rooms are notoriously covered in enough germs and bacteria to give anyone pause, but just how bad is it?
When prospective fitness club members tour new facilities, one of the last and traditionally least exciting stops is the locker room.
Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA)--an antibiotic-resistant strain of staph--is a deadly bacterium responsible for the deaths of more than ten thousand people per year.
MRSA in the Community
MRSA is spread via direct contact, either skin-to-skin or skin-to-surface, and can potentially lead to serious complications, including:
Skin infections.
A clean healthy workplace will help combat the increasing rise in turnover rates across all industries in the U.S.
Combating Employee Turnover With A Clean Office
The national turnover rate, a deceptively costly accepted norm in standard business operations, rose dramatically between 2014-18--exceeding 44%, or an increase of 5%, over that period.
2019 has gone down as the most prolonged recorded flu season in the last ten years, thus far spanning twenty-one consecutive weeks of elevated activity.
What the Flu Means for You
The flu takes a devastating toll on individuals, communities, schools, and businesses, costing billions of dollars per year in health care costs and lost productivity, as well as tens of thousands of deaths.
Janitors--unsung heroes of education and business--are often overlooked for their vital contributions to the organizations that they work for and the communities that they serve; but what separates the average from the great?
Ten Days Without A Janitor
A day without a janitor.