What do you do when you see mold growing in your house? Do you know who to call?  Did you know that IJCSA members are fully qualified to inspect and recommend cost-effective options to solving your mold issue?  IJCSA members are ready, willing and able to inspect, detected, and remove all kinds of mold. Click on this link and take the first step to making your house a clean and safe home for your family - https://www.ijcsa.org/Flood-Damage-Restoration-Services

Don't wait another hour to get started on solving this problem. Mold grows  exponentially. The longer you wait the more you endanger your family as the mold spreads it spores throughout your house making you more vulnerable to what can only be called a "Mold attack". Let us help you. An IJCSA member is always available to help.

Good customer service starts with a smile and is followed up with understanding. There are times when you will be the only smiling face a person will interact with all day. It is your job to make sure that you make a positive impact on most of the people you come in contact with, while maintaining the integrity of your company. 

It is true that  you cannot make everyone happy all the time, however it is important to make it a priority to do your very best to make someones day. Good customer service is rooted in your goals for going the extra mile for everyone, be it behind the scenes or on the front lines. Accommodating a customer can make all the difference in the world.

The one thing that people recognize as making a place look filthy is mold. It doesn't take much for mold to infiltrate your house. It causes damage and has the potential to have an impact on people's health, especially the most vulnerable of our population, small children and seniors. It is not uncommon to see a patch of mold that has grown in a dark area of a room, usually a few days after a good rain where water has found a way through a part of the floor or baseboards. Let's face it, mold is not our friend. It has to be removed and we are just the people to address the issue.

I've used remediation companies in the past. These companies are expensive and the measures they take are drastic. I've seen families completely displaced from their home for a 2 x 2 foot piece of wall that had to be removed. Of course, in extreme cases I believe that their services are useful. However, for a small affected area of wall, perhaps full remediation is overkill. I'm looking forward to solving small mold issues, saving the owner of the property a little money and making a safer environment for everyone that enters.

Find Professional Certified Mold Remediation Companies Here

Bloodborne Pathogen training (BBP) is a critical training module for all contract cleaning companies with possible exposure to BBP.  It involves several phases:

• Hazard identification 
• Training
• Documentation
• Post exposure followup

All contractors must identify possible exposures to BBP.  These can include, but are not limited to, trash handling, hazardous waste handling, and contact with bodily fluids.  As all firms will most likely have contact with any of these situations, the need for having a BBP plan is critical.  Failure to comply can result in employee illness and possible fines from OSHA.  Said training must be done upon an employee being hired and annually thereafter. Training is to be provided at no cost to the employee and during the employee's regular work hours.

All employees receiving the training must be offered the Hepatitis B vaccine at no cost to them.  The vaccine involves three vaccinations over a specific time period. 

BBP training must be documented.  The employee can refuse the vaccinations.  All refusals must be declined in writing with a copy saved in a specific section of the employees file.

In case of an exposure incident, the specifics of the incident must be documented and recorded on the OSHA workplace injury and illness form. Documentation must also include the nature and cause of the exposure.  The employee is also offered follow up medical care, including prophylactic treatment, testing, and counseling.  Additionally, where the source of the exposure is identified, said source may be tested for infection.  Consent is necessary.

How to Know if a Vendor is Qualified to Decontaminate and Sanitize your Facility

Guests and employees alike need to know that you can protect them from the spread of the coronavirus. But how do you know if the measures you’re putting in place are enough? Hiring the right vendor is key. Three questions you must ask are:

1. Is the vendor licensed, insured and experienced?
2. Does the vendor understand and follow all CDC, OSHA and other jurisdictional requirements related to COVID-19 decontamination?
3. And most importantly, does the vendor provide a documented protocol and a cleaning verification system?

Safe Kitchens CEO, John Spach explains that every organization should have a “defendable program” in place prior to opening its doors to employees and the public. This “defendable program” is a written protocol for contamination, developed using reputable information from the WHO, CDC and OSHA.

Our Cleaning Verification System has been designed to give you, your employees and the public, confidence in your facility. Through proactive documentation, we provide a program that’s not only reassuring but also defendable.

Our Commitment to You

Our emergency commercial kitchen cleaning services goes well beyond a “deep-clean”. As the demand for safe and comprehensive virus prevention strategies grows, we continue to increase our commitment to the standards and best-practices of today. We aim to protect your business in a confidential manner and strive to keep your essential services operating.

We appreciate you and your clientele. We’re grateful for the opportunity we have to serve and we continue to express our concerns and care for the general well-being of your business, employees, customers and families. We want to help you rest easy knowing your facility is doing everything it can to stop the spread of COVID-19.

M&F Cleaning Solutions is a professional commercial cleaning company. Many of our commercial clients have carpet. Therefore, learning as much as possible about cleaning carpet can only help to improve our bottom line. The first step in implementing carpet cleaning into our program is to educate our employees.

Utilizing IJCSA as a way to educate our employees is amongst our first priorities as it relates to implementing carpet cleaning into our services. Beyond that, we will begin to physically train our employees on some of the methods we've learned through obtaining the course here. Carpet and rug cleaning is a good way to add additional value to our customers

If you are interested in carpet cleaning companies feel free to utilize this directory https://www.ijcsa.org/Carpet-Cleaning-Directory

Education is key to protect against bloodborne, viruses and bacterias, we must know how to handle potential hazardous materials & ensure that we are protecting our health and our employees health.

Everyone that is working in contact with not just the medical facilities but every industry should have an understanding of how to handle bloodborne pathogens to avoid getting infected and sick.

Today we live unprecedented times, Viruses, diseases and bacterias are always a real threat to ourselves, our love ones, neighbors, and communities. It is critical for professionals to understand how to protect themselves and others. 

The short video allowed us to understand that it is clearly important to not only know how to wear protective equipment such as gloves and goggles. But also to know the importance of having a plan in place. A plan on how to act in a situation that can potentially put us in contact with body fluids or pathogens.

We must understand that in today's daily activities can  all be at risk, therefore we must understand not only that we must wear (PPe) but how to properly use it and dispose it after the use is completed. How to handle the waste and how to properly bag anything that contains contaminated trash. How to clean and sanitize is also key, as blood borne, body fluids, Viruses, Bacterias can live on surfaces and other materials. 

The Video above spoke about blood borne pathogens such as HPV, HIV,AIDS Which clearly were the things people worried the most back when the video was created, However we cannot forget that in today's day it's not just limited to those viruses.

Today many live with the fear of a Novel Viruses such as Covid -19. Therefore Cleaning and personal hygiene must be essential. Sanitizing in our fields shouldn't just be a subject of one day, but an ongoing subject. Cleaning its not just limited to our clients and work places, Cleaning should be a lifestyle to maintain a healthy life every day. We must fight the threat by doing the following:

* Educating ourselves and our employees.

* Creating an action plan. (What to do plan)

* Using Personal Protective Equipment (PPE).

* Learning how to properly clean and sanitize.

* Treating every situation as a potential risk.

* Learning about which products to use and how to use them. 

* Learning how to properly dispose all infected materials.

* Cleaning all equipment before and after using it.

* Washing our hands after completing the work.

* Supervisors and employees should have Records of potential threats. 

It is imperative that cleaning employees and staff who are around or can come into contact with blood borne pathogens be fully trained to OSHA standards and are knowledgeable on bloodborne pathogens. This will better assist staff in knowing what bloodborne pathogens they may come into contact with, how to dispose of them and how to protect them selves in such environments. Knowledge of Bloodborne pathogens and how to dispose of them are vital for employee health and safety. Proper training is necessary to keep employees safe and train them how to properly remove, clean and disinfect against such pathogens 

Having Safety and Exposure Control plans in place helps keep the employee and staff safe in the event of exposure and allows them to know proper procedures and guidelines to allow them to get the proper treatment they may need. Knowledge of proper exposure control is key to implementing and utilizing these plans in the work place and help make for a safer and healthier environment for all staff. Making sure all employees are informed of pathogens and properly vaccinated is key to protecting your employees health and safety. 

As a professional cleaner you are exposed to many bloodborne pathogens in every day work. The risk is always great working in such environments that handle hazardous and infectious material. Proper training as mentioned above and having knowledgeable staff will help create a healthy and safe environment while maintaining reduced risk of exposure and proper disinfection and waste removal. 

There are many advantages of hiring a cleaning company that has passed the IJCSA Residential Cleaning Specialist (RCS) certification. You want to know who is entering your home, you want your home thoroughly cleaned, and you want a professional.

Allowing someone into your home on a regular basis takes trust. Armstrong Complete Cleaning will go the extra mile to ensure that you feel comfortable with our service, as well as our staff. Our company guarantees discretion and confidentiality for all customers. 

There are types of clean. There is the appearance of clean, and there’s truly clean. With the IJCSA Residential Cleaning Specialist Certification we guarantee our work. We have cleaned someday after another company to learn from what is missed, and make sure that your home is spotless when we leave. Because is your house really clean if the other companies just sweep dirt under the rug? We’re different in that we take the time to clean places that people don’t usually see.

Professionalism sets our company apart. We pride our self on being a step above our competitors. Our business is cleaning. That’s why we can guarantee our work. I can also guarantee that after we’ve leaned your residence you will say, “Armstrong Complete Cleaning is the best cleaners I have ever had!”

The IJCSA RCS Certification is an advantage of hiring our company. Through certification we ensure we are the better choice. You can have peace of mind that you can trust who is entering your home, your home will be thoroughly cleaned, and there will be a professional providing your service. These advantages make us the better choice. 

   Stay Fresh Cleaning Services is a Green cleaning company. Our company is dedicated in providing quality service to your home and small business. We are IJCSA Green Cleaning certified. Our goal while cleaning is to get the job done right while protecting your families health and not causing harm to the environment.  

   Our company goes in with our CDC approved green cleaning products and the latest technology in equipment.  We tackle bathrooms with a commercial steam cleaner.  We get amazing results without having to use bleach or ammonia based products. Our Eco-friendly cleaning service includes no paper waste or harmful chemicals, keeping your family safe. We won't leave your home or business smelling of strong artificial  scents. You'll be pleased with gentle scent of our natural eco-friendly cleaning products. 

   We're committed to provide you with excellent service at Stay Fresh cleaning services. Give us a call today and we can customize a Green cleaning experience for you. We offer weekly, bi-weekly, and monthly cleanings and can handle all your cleaning needs. Give us a call today, you wont be disappointed.