Performing cleaning inspections once in a while is great, and certainly better than nothing. However, you are really missing out on a lot of the best data if you are only inspecting once every few months. Think about it, inspections are most valuable for the data and reports they produce and that data is most valuable when there is enough of it to draw valid conclusions. One of the major keys to cleaning inspections as a form of cleaning quality assurance is to make them part of your daily or weekly routine. This will start to build your facility’s database and allow you to see reports that are meaningful and helpful to the quality process. The other good news about this approach to cleaning quality inspections is that you won’t have to go through another learning curve every few months when you pick the handheld device back up to do an inspection. Once we have built up our database, we really like to group data sets and inspections by date range. Grouping data this way allows us to begin recognizing trends over time. Once these trends have been established as valid we can use the information to make adjustments and improvements. Best of all though is that by having data from both before and after we make specific adjustments we can see whether or not the changes are improving the overall level of cleaning in our facilities. Accurate reporting is a pivotal part of any cleaning quality assurance program and by performing routine inspections we can insure that the data and reports are valid and accurate.
Performing cleaning inspections once in a while is great, and certainly better than nothing. However, you are really missing out on a lot of the best data if you are only inspecting once every few months.
Think about it, inspections are most valuable for the data and reports they produce and that data is most valuable when there is enough of it to draw valid conclusions. One of the major keys to cleaning inspections as a form of cleaning quality assurance is to make them part of your daily or weekly routine. This will start to build your facility’s database and allow you to see reports that are meaningful and helpful to the quality process. The other good news about this approach to cleaning quality inspections is that you won’t have to go through another learning curve every few months when you pick the handheld device back up to do an inspection.
Once we have built up our database, we really like to group data sets and inspections by date range. Grouping data this way allows us to begin recognizing trends over time. Once these trends have been established as valid we can use the information to make adjustments and improvements. Best of all though is that by having data from both before and after we make specific adjustments we can see whether or not the changes are improving the overall level of cleaning in our facilities.
Accurate reporting is a pivotal part of any cleaning quality assurance program and by performing routine inspections we can insure that the data and reports are valid and accurate.