Reintroduce a culture of cleanliness and tidiness

I'm sure you've also seen multiple trolleys or unsavory cleaning rooms. The trolleys are overflowing with stock, bottles of products, dirty linens or gloves, etc. The cleaning rooms located under a staircase, or a cleaning room with a disgusting sink and messy stock, etc. This kind of situation is one that I see every day unfortunately and I am even very surprised when I see a tidy and clean trolley. This tells me that it is urgent that we reintroduce a culture of cleanliness and tidiness in our buildings.

My principle is that you can't wash with dirty equipment, with porous, cracked surfaces. You can't wash the entire building with the same cloth either.

Building hygiene and sanitation partners

We can't transition to this new culture overnight. It requires goodwill from all of the building's hygiene and sanitation partners.

The owner or manager of the building:

• Arrange housekeeping premises with painted walls (so that it is easy to clean).
• Choose premises large enough to accommodate a floor-mounted wash tank (makes it easier to empty the scrubber boilers)
• And a room that can accommodate a housekeeping trolley complete and with shelves so that the employee can easily store their household cleaning products and accessories

Housekeeping Stock Buyer – Building Maintenance

• Purchase professional, efficient, and durable equipment. Consulting your employees can help you avoid purchasing something they won't need. After all, they're the primary user.
• Have enough microfiber clothsand flat wet mops. Plan an annual budget to replace the most worn ones.
• Be attentive to innovations that may be safer or more ergonomic for the employee, or that offer better performance.
• Do not neglect the building maintenance workFaded paint can result in walls that no longer wash effectively.

Quality Controller

• Do the quality control janitorial facilities are just as important as maintaining the building premises.
• Go meet with the employee regularly to make sure everything is going well in his daily and periodic tasks.
• Make sure the employee understands all tasks, methods and work route  which is attributed to him.
• Small monthly or quarterly refresher or refresher training sessions help employees stay motivated and also prevent them from feeling forgotten.
• Employees should receive at least one large-scale training every year, this allows him to avoid becoming a " old of the old » who doesn’t want to know anything about new technologies!

Team leader and maintenance staff

• You are responsible for keeping the spaces allocated to you for storing your cleaning products, accessories, and equipment clean and tidy. Take care of them. It's not normal for the dirtiest door on the floor to be the concierge's.
• It is your responsibility to inform your manager of any equipment breakdown or accessory problem.
• And it is also your responsibility to carry out the work listed in the housekeeping estimate and/or your work route.

Basic principles to follow to reintroduce a culture of cleanliness and tidiness

1. Housekeeping employees, like any other employee in other professions, need to be stimulated through training, quality control visits, etc.
2. Let us be interested in them, in their profession, in the importance of their work. Imagine working in a building where no one cleans the toilets...?!
3. A good study of the premises to determine the right frequencies, working times, and review working methods.
4. Regular quality control with feedback, regular and equal for all employees
5. Household cleaning products, accessories and equipment in good quantity and quality, innovative if possible.
6. Well-written work instructions, illustrated if possible. Work instructions are a good way, but make sure they don't contain long paragraphs. They should be concise, clear, and illustrated.
7. THE housekeeping quote must be known to the team leader as well as the employees. And major work must be allowed to be done.
8. Normal building maintenance work must be carried out to ensure that the building does not deteriorate.
9. Have the equipment repaired and ensure that thepreventive maintenance be done on these.
10. Have respectable, clean housekeeping premises with storage space and large enough to store a washing tub and the equipment necessary to do a good job.

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