The NLC Solutions Cleaning Inspection Worksheet
A professional cleaning checklist serves as a daily reminder for what needs to be cleaned, and as a way to be sure our team performance levels are being maintained.
As a cleaning schedule it allows employees to record what needs to be cleaned, how often it should be cleaned.
Team supervisors are able to note when a specific area was cleaned, and who cleaned it.
These records can be shared with your cleaning team and with clients. This makes it easy for both parties to oversee the schedule and make recommendations regarding problem areas.
The Main Goal of Commercial Cleaning is
A Clean, Safe, and Healthy Workplace
Proper workplace hygiene is at the core of every productive and successful business.
Many employees spend around 30% of their waking hours in the workplace. This means that the workplace must be an area of outstanding hygenic standards.
Excellent hygiene in the workplace isn't an added bonus, it’s an integral part of occupational health and safety — sanitized, neat and clean at all times. Some areas, especially kitchens, bathrooms or high-touch surfaces will need more care. To identify these areas, an adequate hygiene plan is essential. A good start should include a risk assessment to find which areas demand attention.
All managers and employees should be made aware of these plans. Even if a cleaning service is doing the heavy cleaning, staff need to follow best practice guidelines and employ basic hygiene standards.
Lessons learned during the pandemic are still valuable today. Bad workplace hygiene alwayws poses a health risk. All of the illnesses common to the workplace like influenza virus, coughs, common colds, and synus infections cause hundreds of employees to take sick days every year.
Here are four basic things to consider when talking about office cleaning and good hygiene.
1. Personal hygiene. Worker personal hygiene is essential. Include proper background and context in the hygiene plan, and frequently remind employees through posters and internal communication (e.g. emails). If you are having a problem with a worker, don’t hesitate to talk to them in private.
2. Work area cleanliness. The work area in general needs to be kept clean and tidy, focusing on high-touch surfaces and areas with a lot of foot traffic. Work surfaces and their contents — keyboards or phones are typically high-touch items and need to be cleaned very often.
- Encourage workers to maintain a clutter-free area.
- Encourage frequent wiping and sanitizing of high-touch surfaces.
- Offer sanitizing wipes and gel in a convenient location.
3. Clean toilet facilities. Bathrooms must be cleaned and sanitized frequently and thoroughly. A clean bathroom should be well equipped with essentials such as soap, toilet paper and hand towels. Remind workers that they have a personal responsibility to practice proper personal hygiene after using the facilities.
4. Clean kitchen area. As a communal environment, food prep and consumption areas need to be as clean as possible. It is of utmost importance that surfaces and utensils be kept clean. Poor hygiene creates huge health risks. A designated cleaning staff is usually required. It is important to ensure that workers are taught to clean after themselves.
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