"The first thing the customer sees is the last thing the housekeeper sees." For a holiday homeowner, Airbnb host, property management or hotelier, reputation and image is everything. With the advent of online reviews and social media, negative experiences can spread widely in moments. Repairing...
Quality calls on cleaning staff to be attentive, to notice things, to be observant, not just a bystander, but to be an active member. A true reflection of quality and continuous improvement is to be proactive and go beyond ticking off cleaning tasks on a...
We were instructed by a prominent private school in London to ascertain the nature of complaints from suspected poor cleaning standards...
School cleaning is a tough. School cleaners are the forgotten army of workers that keep the school running. They ensure that school is safe for children and staff to use, and they make the school a pleasant place to study and work in. ...
Imagine for a moment that that an ever-so-small slip in standards started to occur, say dirt left in the corners. This slip doesn’t happen overnight but over a longer period of time, it creeps up and stays – this is the ‘broken window’. Over time...
Workplace capability assessments – assessing physical capability following illness or injury as part of a return to work process Skills assessment – assessing both physical cleaning skills and techniques and knowledge in cleaning and hygiene practices. Pre training assessments – conducting a training needs analysis to identify...
We started with the marketing of disinfectants as being labelled as a percentage reduction, and we said that 99.9% reduction sounded like it was almost 100%. However, we now know that unchecked bacteria can grow into enormous populations numbering into the millions, billions and trillions...
Browse any supermarket line of kitchen and bathroom cleaners and you will notice a common theme in their marketing – “kills 99.9% of bacteria”, usually followed by an asterisk exclaiming that the product will kill up to 99.9% if used exactly as dictated under ideal...
At the end of December 2019 several cases of acute respiratory syndrome were reported in Wuhan City, China. It was very quickly identified as a new coronavirus, or severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). SARS-CoV-2 is a new strain of coronavirus that has not...
Our comprehensive cleaning and infection control course is intended for routine and deep cleaning in hospitals and other medical centres, and is based on international guidance from the ‘Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’ (CDC) in the US, the ‘World Health Organisation’ (WHO) and the...