Moving the Needle
Moving the Needle means “to change a situation to a noticeable degree”
(Wiktionary)
Our progress needle above is well below the halfway mark: which means we have work to do!
Please join us.
We will report our Achievements periodically, aiming to show we have nudged that needle higher.
Leadership
Leadership is providing direction, inspiration, and resources to achieve goals.
For us, leadership has two components:
1. Promoting health-related indoor environmental goals.
2. Advancing those goals in the focus, messaging, and management of this site.
We are grateful for our Council Members who are the heart and soul of what we do. They are ALL volunteers. Thank you all of you!
Our Goal is to be a resource for the cleaning industry and its customers; to inform, and if possible, inspire. Please check out our Stories section for examples (based on actual events).
As a visitor to our site, please reach out to us anytime using our Contact Form.
We look forward to together moving the needle toward healthier people in healthier buildings.
Allen Rathey
Mission
Indoor Health Council’s (IHC’s) mission is to educate people who clean professionally (aka, professional cleaners), and the public, on the connection between effective cleaning and public health. It provides professional courses, and general information to professionals and the public, and may in time offer accreditation and CEUs.
Our immediate mission is to teach lay persons how and why to clean for health, with an overarching goal to keep it simple by teaching best practices grounded on accurate science; and citing research for those who want to dig deeper.
Vision
At the Indoor Health Council (IHC), we believe cleaning should be part of informed public health practice, and that “the value of the health benefit increases the value of the service” (Dr. Michael Berry, Protecting the Built Environment: Cleaning for Health, 1994).
Proving this will be a primary reason for IHC’s existence.
We will heavily cite and reference Dr. Berry’s work, but as a foundation on which to build: not the structure, walls, ceiling, or roof.
IHC will underpin its work with an advisory group of experts in fields ranging from microbiology to ergonomics, from hands-on professionals to consultants, from epidemiology to sustainability.
From the Director
Heading Upward
Thanks to all for your involvement in developing this milestone of leadership excellence, the Indoor Health Council.
In researching content for the site and in an effort to set its tone, it became clear the best leaders (or maybe just the happiest ones) both connect with those being led and care about them.
As Patrick Lencioni, author of The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, said: “If your heart is not right, no one cares about your leadership skills”, and as the late Dr. Stephen R. Covey and others stated, “I don’t care how much you know until I know how much you care.”
I hope and trust this is the beginning of a long, worthwhile and happy journey of protecting indoor spaces, and more importantly, those who occupy and work in them. Thank you so much for joining me.
Allen Rathey
Indoor Health Council (IHC)
“I Care”
When we enter any environment where the inhabitants are healthy, happy, active, positive, and achieving, we find an environment that projects an image of “I Care.”
— Dr. Michael Berry
The value of the health benefit increases the value of the service.
Dr. Michael Berry
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