Ergonomics Considerations for the Design of Cordless Stick Vacuum Handles
by Dr. Gary Allread When choosing the appropriate vacuum across a wide array of available products, it is essential to consider operational features, such as amount of particle removal, ease of filter replacement, and battery life. However, usability and effort [...]
Semper Fi and Custodial
A Hispanic man of 44 with a slightly prominent belly walked slowly into the training room for the dozen or so custodians of the community college; he being last to enter. Javier sat down tiredly at a long rectangular table [...]
What is Engineered Water?
The Engineered Water Consortium (EWC) defined Engineered Water (EW) as: “Water engineered to meet the performance requirements of professional cleaning, sanitizing and/or disinfecting, with long-term value and green factors as key uptake and ethical drivers, and On Site Generation (OSG) [...]
Citizen Science Anyone?
Citizen science (CS) encourages members of the public to voluntarily participate in the scientific process. Whether by asking questions, making observations, conducting experiments, collecting data, or developing low-cost technologies and open-source code, members of the public can advance scientific knowledge [...]
When Components Compete, Systems Collapse
In a well-organized system all the components work together to support each other. In a system that is well led and managed, everybody wins. This is what I taught Japanese top management and engineers beginning in 1950. If by [...]
Kaizen and Service
Service is ... an essential aspect of the business applications of kaizen. Each employee in a kaizen culture is asked to look each day for ways to improve the process or product
Ergonomics Study—Hotel Housekeeping
Dr. Gary Allread, one of our council members, shared a study he led, published in the November, 2022 peer-reviewed International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health: “Comparisons of Trunk Motions and Low Back Injury Risk between Alternative Hotel Room [...]
Quality or Quantity?
When cleaning, is it quality or quantity that counts? Dr. Bill Bellows, a member of our council, writing in the Lean Management Journal said: “The word ‘quality’ has Latin roots,…
Evidence-based Cleaning for Health
What is Evidence-based Cleaning for Health? It is research into and measurement of cleaning processes and results to enable higher-quality and healthier outcomes.
Expectations for Better, Measured Cleaning
Expectations can be self-fulfilling prophecies. “Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is.