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What is Terminal Cleaning? 11 Steps to Terminal Cleaning of Inpatient Areas
As patients in your facility are discharged or transferred out of a room, the surfaces in the room will need to be cleaned and disinfected to remove any potentially infectious germs. During terminal cleaning, your staff will need to complete extra...
How to Improve Indoor Air Quality
Did you know poor IAQ or indoor air quality can affect the health of your occupants and visitors? Keeping the air in your facility clean is vital to occupant comfort and health. Find out how to remove viruses, mold, dust, and other air pollutants in...
Sustainable Food Packaging: Top Trends in Foodservice
In 2021, many foodservice businesses were focused on offering take-out meals as they remained affected by the reality of the pandemic. As the year ended, new trends that were centered around the way food is packaged emerged.
What is a HEPA Filter?
Did you know that poor indoor air quality (IAQ) can lead to negative health effects for the people in your building?
8 Steps to Clean and Disinfect Occupied Patient Rooms in your Healthcare Facility
You’re likely too familiar with how challenging it can be to clean an occupied patient room. However, routine cleaning and disinfecting is critical to reducing the spread of healthcare-associated infections (HAIs).
Electrostatic Disinfection: 3 Ways to Get The Most Out of Your Sprayer
As the need for frequent disinfection grows, high volume disinfection is becoming increasingly popular. The most popular and effective high-volume disinfection method is electrostatic technology. Electrostatic sprayer technology applies an electric...
Choosing the Best Disinfectant for Your Facility: 6 Factors to Consider
Commercial disinfectants are important to killing illness-causing germs and bacteria on surfaces that the people in your building touch regularly. Having the right chemical disinfectant can help ensure that your facility is clean and safe. There are...
Best Practices For Restroom Disinfection: 5 Tips For Maximum Efficacy
The surfaces in your commercial restroom are covered with illness-causing germs and bacteria. To keep your occupants safe against an outbreak, it’s imperative that your cleaning team frequently and thoroughly cleans and disinfects the restroom. With...
What Are The Types of Commercial Disinfectants? Pros and Cons [VIDEO]
Illness-causing germs, also known as pathogens, are easily spread throughout your facility. Routine disinfection is the most effective way to minimize the spread of germs.
Cold & Flu Prevention: 3 Must-Have Products for the Office
Having a sanitary workplace is vital to maintaining the health and safety of your employees. That’s why it’s important to control the spread of illness-causing bacteria and germs in your facility.
Calculating the Cost Benefits of an Autonomous Cleaning Equipment Purchase
The cost of labor can account for up to 85% of the cleaning costs for your facility.
How to Fix Foam in Your Commercial Carpet Extractor
Carpet extractors are a powerful tool for cleaning and maintaining the carpets in your facility. Like with any janitorial equipment, there may be some issues that require extra attention from you and your cleaning staff. One of the most common and...
What is an Orbital Scrubber? 3 Key Benefits
If you’ve been looking for a way to make your cleaning program safer, more efficient, and more sustainable, an orbital floor scrubber may be a good investment for your facility. Orbital scrubbers use advanced technology to make the process of cleaning...
Floor Signs 101: Types, Costs, and Benefits [VIDEO]
When you have a wet floor, floor signs are a great way to indicate the presence of slip and fall hazards in your facility. They can also be used to indicate a general risk to your building’s guests.
How to Clean Commercial Entry Mats in 6 Easy Steps
Did you know you can save between $600-$1200 per pound of soil removal by using a properly maintained entryway matting system? Removing dirt from your facility’s floors through sweeping, vacuuming, and mopping is time-consuming and costly, but using...
4 Ways To Keep Your Floors Looking Their Best This Winter
Winter can be harsh on your facility’s hard floors so it’s important to take a different approach in the winter to account for increased soils and winter weather. The processes that would typically work during the summer or other seasons may not work...
4 Ways to Prevent Slips and Falls in Your Facility
Wet, slippery floors are one of, if not the most, common causes of slip and fall incidents in facilities.
Winter Commercial Floor Maintenance: 4 Products to Protect Your Floors
You’re probably familiar with the increased cleaning demands of winter, and you might be wondering how you’re going to keep up this year.
What’s The Best Floor Pad for VCT (Vinyl Composition Tile)?
When maintaining your VCT (vinyl composition tile) flooring, it’s important to know how to keep it looking its best for enhanced facility appearance, lower maintenance costs, and extended floor life. As you have likely seen in your searches, there...
4 Key Ways To Reduce Your Facility’s Commercial Cleaning Costs
The cleanliness of your facility is a priority, especially given the value placed on cleaning and disinfecting during the COVID-19 pandemic. But, keeping your facility clean can be expensive, especially during labor and product shortages.
5 Benefits of Adding Autonomous Cleaning Equipment to Your Cleaning Program
Over the last several years, autonomous cleaning equipment has continually risen in popularity as businesses seek ways to increase cleaning efficiencies and boost staff productivity. Labor shortages, tight budgets, and the battle against COVID-19 and...
How To Eliminate Odors From An Auto Scrubber Tank: 9 Steps
Auto scrubbers are valuable in speeding up the process of cleaning the floors in your building. Unfortunately, while using a floor scrubber, you may have noticed a bad odor coming from the machine. When this happens, it may be difficult to know exactly...
4 Benefits of Pre-Moistened Disinfecting Wipes
Illness-causing pathogens linger throughout your facility, especially on high-touch surfaces.
Commercial Cleaning Best Practices: 4 Ways to Boost Your Team’s Productivity
Labor accounts for a large amount of any business’s costs. In fact, it’s the greatest cost for most businesses. With that being said, finding ways to improve your janitorial team’s efficiency is likely a priority. However, identifying...
4 Ways to Improve Commercial Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) in Your Building
No matter the type of facility you have, the indoor air quality (IAQ) of your building is important. Your building’s IAQ is essential to the health and safety of your staff and guests. Poor indoor air quality can have adverse effects on the health...