As the president of Spongies Cleaners, LLC. my primary commitment to residential and workplace owners was to offer a professional cleaning service that would bring them peace of mind. The reason is, I kept on listening that their cleaning services were just plain horrible. They don’t do what they promised, they aren’t dependable, there isn’t enough effort from cleaners, and cleaning techs did not have a good attitude. As time passed by, I managed to create a professional cleaning service that created solutions to their problems, but I always felt it was not enough. Something was missing. That something was promoting accurately a Green Cleaning service. I would invest my time to do research on Green Cleaning, but I was unsure if I really mastered it. That’s where the IJCSA came along.

IJCSA mission is to promote professionalism and business ethics in the janitorial and cleaning services industry. After reviewing the IJCSA, I made the first step to become a member, so I can still maintain my primary commitment, and that is to offer the best professional cleaning service, so my customers can have a peace of mind knowing that our services are safe and healthy for their health’s, but also for the environment. One of the benefits of being an IJCSA member is that they offer a Green Cleaning Certificate, which happened to be the missing important component that I was looking for my cleaning services. The Green Cleaning Certificate offered by the IJCSA taught me that old practices were harmful, and that new innovative and sustainable cleaning method of Green Cleaning was the right practice for the well being of my environment and for my clients.

Upon completing the Green Cleaning Certificate, the next step from me is to provide education and training to my staff. They will be introduced to why old practices, and cleaning chemicals are harmful, and will introduce to my staff the harmful ingredients that can impair their health but can damage our environment too. Once the information is digested, we will apply the Green Cleaning method to our projects. Meanwhile, I will make sure to have staff meetings on Mondays to repeat the practices of Green Cleaning, and make sure to ask questions from my staff if they have any problems understanding or applying the Green Cleaning method. Depending on the results of my process, I will decide if I will need a semiannual or annual training refresher, to guarantee that my staff is well trained on the method of Green Cleaning, so they can successfully carry out their daily tasks.