The importance of the cleaning staff and employees knowing about bloodborne pathogens is due to, the high-level of exposure that they encounter daily. When being exposed to bloodborne pathogens one should have knowledge of the potential dangers that can be encountered if they are exposed. Having knowledge allows the staff to know how to properly handle the laceration or puncture and what necessary precautions need to be taken to prevent a decrease in quality of life. In having knowledge of the steps to be taken after contact is made, the staff can notify the appropriate administrative staff in the event that the exposure of the bloodborne pathogen could affect another staff. Knowing the products that you are handling/using allows you to properly handle the product to ensure safety to self and others. It also helps in determining what products are needed to provide sufficient cleaning to the area that you are going to clean. Proper handling ensures that the people that are going to be housed in the area are too protected from harmful chemicals that were mishandled.

It is important to know and be aware of bloodborne pathogens. Working in environments where blood is exposed on a daily such as removing trash that contains a used syringe or handling laundry with contaminated blood.

It is important to know how to follow disinfecting and washing your hands with a good soap is a crucial step in staying safe. The best defense is a thorough offense. You can easily protect yourself by following universal precautions. 

Being in the cleaning industry it is important to have knowledge of different exposures. Always wear personal protected gear and stay safe! 

 

Before starting my Green Clean journey, I had no clue how harmful some of the cleaners I used were. I knew there were natural products as I use them more often than others. But I had not gotten in depth on Green Cleaning.

I have learned so much about natural vs chemical. For instance, Furniture polish and degreasers contain Kerosene. It can damage lung tissues and dissolve the fatty tissue that surrounds nerve cells. I had never even heard of that!

Natural products like vinegar or lemon juice can be used to make furniture polish. Vinegar is a multi tool for cleaning! It can be used just about everywhere. Vinegar also can just be used paired with water. It makes an amazing glass cleaner!

Using Green Cleaning products is healthier for you and the environment. By becoming Green Clean Certified, I can now make your home happier and healthier! Look at all the other Green Cleaning companies we have! https://www.ijcsa.org/Green-Cleaning-Services

Can you bring your medical style cleaning into a home or office setting? There are some similarities in the different styles of cleaning. Medical style cleaning is an important addition to home and office though!

Cleaning the home or office makes everyone happy! Everything is beautiful and smells amazing! You can even deep clean and make it sparkle and shine! But are you helping your client by not getting that real clean that gets rid of viruses, bacteria and germs?

Medical Cleaning gets rid of them! You are not just cleaning and shining, you are helping them stay healthy. It is the deeper cleaning of surfaces that are high traffic areas. That high level disinfectant cleaning that we sometimes need.

So yes you can bring Medical Style cleaning to your home or office setting! You can find many qualified companies that are Medical Cleaning Certified in your area right here!     

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Having great customer skills could be beneficial for your company. Do you know how far a smile will take you, or how many moods it has lighten? Depending on how you interact with your customers as well as your staff's interactions it could be the start of a new business relationship or the end of one. What is great customer service? Great customer service is knowing your clients’ individual needs, keeping your client satisfied, greeting your client with a smile, listening to your client needs in order to develop a plan that works with the client to solve their problem or issue and most importantly thanking the customer. Customer service is important and it is used in many business aspects.  

Customers deserve respect and a janitorial company who care about their needs. The cleaning companies here at IJSCA take time to listen and understand their clients. Our janitorial companies always develop a solution with the client before approaching or proceeding with a job. Clients are important to IJSCA janitorial companies and we always put our customers first. Our goal is to please our clients and give them exceptional service at all times. We know “word travels” and we want the words “Superior Customer Service” to follow us where ever we go.  

If you’re looking for a cleaning company you can trust to get the job done right the first time around, you are in the right place. Here's a link to our directory where you can find a company who will treat you like family and give you best customer service you can brag about; IJCSA Business Directory 

 

Bloodborne pathogens are infectious micro-organisms that are found in blood. Some examples are HPV, HCV, and HIV. Once contracted, these viruses can't be cured. However, they can be prevented.

There is several key factors in being safe from these diseases. Use of proper PPE and the implementation of universal precautions are some examples; universal precautions is the approach that any blood, most bodily fluids, and sharps are treated as if they contained the bloodborne pathogens. This lowers the possibility of coming into contact with it; however, if is crucial to take the proper procedure if exposed.

It is essential to take proper precautions to prevent exposure to bloodborne pathogens. It is important for everyone to know proper procedures to ensure proper steps are being taken.

Implementing a green cleaning program, into a cleaning business model, offers many advantages to business owners and customers alike. Green cleaning is healthy cleaning! Harmful chemicals can be found in many readily available cleaning agents that cause both long, and short-term health problems. ("Cleaning Product 'Hall Of Shame'," 2012) The expanse of communicative technologies has facilitated an increased awareness of the negative consequences of toxic cleaning agents. An educated market means a navigation to greener and healthier cleaning solutions.  

The benefits of green cleaning are not confined to health and wellbeing—as environmental regulations increase, so too will the cost of non-green cleaning agents. ("Challenge of Going Green," 1994) Cleaning businesses with the foresight to implement green cleaning practices now will financially benefit in the future.  

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Need mold removed?  You have came to the right place look no further than https://www.ijcsa.org/Flood-Damage-Restoration-Services. The best and brightest  companies are here to service your mold removal needs.

It is important to implement a mold cleaning operation into your business for multiple reasons. One reason is health, mold could cause major damages to your respiratory system, skin and eyes. Having a good mold clean operation could help not get you sued for neglect and other reasons.

It is also important to implement a mold cleaning operation because of the damage it could cause to your facility and other parts of your company property.  Stopping mold from growing from other parts of the building or ceiling caving-in in the office is not something anyone wants. Being able to mitigate and control the issue beforehand and using the correct PPE can make a big difference in maintenance cost.

Great customer service comes from the heart. To have and be able to exert excellent customer after customer is very important not only to the customer but also to the people you work with and the aura around you. The thing about great customer service is that it is within and that you can work on it every single day. Great customer service is also important because it only take one person with word of mouth to stop 10+ people from using you company.

Great customer service is important to IJCSA members and is taught annually within this course. Just being able to find a course about cleaning customer service is customer service within itself. Cleaning is what we do, for you and growth is why we do it.