While it’s very important to recognize the issues and problems with the quality of work performed by your cleaning staff and go about fixing them. The real magic when it comes to cleaning quality assurance is to prevent problems before they ever...

As a group, managers in the cleaning industry have always seemed to realize the necessity of performing some kind of inspection to check the work of their cleaning team. However, due to many factors the inspection process has looked very different from...

All too often in the cleaning industry employees are met with negative feedback. It’s easy to walk into a facility and see everything that has been missed or has not been cleaned according to the site specs. It’s much harder for a supervisor...

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...

When most facility managers or building service contractors think of cleaning inspections they think of getting out the old notebook or filling in a tedious checklist form. The process of performing cleaning inspections can be very slow and monotonous...

Introducing a formal quality program and cleaning inspections can be tough on a cleaning staff as well as management. Whether you’re implementing from the top down in an in-house organization or are working with your cleaners as the owner or supervisor...

“Practice makes perfect” is an adage that can be very easily applied to the cleaning inspection process. The thinking behind it also provides us with our number two reason why you should be performing routine cleaning inspections: to speed...

In order to make objective and scientific conclusions about a process or activity, we would first need a sufficient amount of good and honest data. This applies to pretty much all industries, including the cleaning industry. However, for the most part...

Bank of America has received highest honors for completing its new building in midtown Manhattan : platinum LEED certification. As reported by Time in an article "Bank of America Building: A New Green Standard?" by Jeffrey Kluger, LEED platinum...

In short, CMMS is a specific category of a set of software tools designed to help manage maintenance issues in and around facilities. CMMS stands for “Computerized Maintenance Management Software” and is a little brother to a bigger category...

A lot of study has gone into the possible linkage between asthma and cleaning chemicals. Dr. Jan Paul Zock, of the Center for Research in Environmental Epidemiology in Barcelona, says recent research points to a definite connection. According to his organization...

OSHA recently issued new sets of information regarding H1N1 . The “factsheets” were issued for both employees and employers, and mostly include common-sense information, with the notable exception of new “social-distancing” tactics...

In an increasingly educated marketplace, more and more consumers have become wary of “greenwashing” – a phenomenon whereby companies seek to appear more green than they actually are. The reasons for this are obvious. While most everyone...

Last week issuewire.com posted an article announcing that NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (or JPL) has attained LEED Gold certification for its new Flight Projects Center, located near Pasadena, CA. The building’s design, created by a team...

As we know, the occurrence of Swine Flu has drastically decreased through the warmer months of summer. However, most reports indicate that there is still a moderate risk of a return outbreak. Andrew Pekosz, professor of immunology and microbiology at...

Seven World Trade Center, a 52-story, $7 million replacement for the building that fell at that address on 9/11, has been certified by the U.S. Green Building Council. This marks the first building in New York City to be achieve the highly regarded LEED...