Recycling is “Healthy”
Recycling can improve our physical health. According to Dr. Amy Myers: “Recycling reduces the health risks of disease and birth defects associated with landfills and incinerators. It also has a positive impact on our personal health and that of [...]
What is Self-Esteem?
[A Note from IHC's Council: “One of the best ways to enhance the self-esteem of the custodial workforce is for them to understand the importance of cleaning as it relates to healthier buildings, employees, and customers; as well as its [...]
Sanitation in a Post-COVID-19 World
Sanitation in a Post-COVID-19 (C19) World, or in any infectious-disease related future that awaits us, means transcending facility appearance or asset protection for loftier goals that protect health. It also requires vision. While sanitation once meant removing dirt you [...]
How to Build Your Self-esteem
[A Note from IHC's Council: “One of the best ways to enhance the self-esteem of the custodial workforce is for them to understand the importance of cleaning as it relates to healthier buildings, employees, and customers; as well as its [...]
Cleaning Standards: The Problem and Solution
By Allen Rathey There has been much talk about establishing definitive standards within the cleaning industry, but efforts have met with mixed success. Why? I believe the reason is basic. A cleaning standard must be defined by a cleaning [...]
Norovirus Dispatched Using Steam and Microfiber
Microfiber and steam for environmental cleaning during an outbreak. Faced with a norovirus-gastroenteritis outbreak, a 229-bed hospital in Australia compared two approaches to cleaning and disinfecting in Ward C and D respectively: 1. Ward C used conventional cleaning and disinfecting [...]
We Have Hit the Wall
We have hit the wall. It is now clear the environment — indoors and out — has limits, and these are lower than once thought.
Monitoring CO2 to Prevent COVID-19 Spread
We exhale carbon dioxide (CO2) when we breathe, and monitoring CO2 in classrooms can be a way to help ensure enough ventilation to reduce exposure to COVID-19 which is mainly spread through the air. Cambridge and Surrey Universities, and Imperial [...]
Shoot for the Moon Training, Cleaning for Health
"Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss it you will land among the stars." — Les Brown When motivational speaker Les Brown said the words above, he likely wasn’t thinking of training school custodians. “Our janitors are lame!” [...]
How Pressure Washing Helps
It's no surprise that water under pressure cleans better than a gentle stream. Following a presoak, commercial car washes have used this method accompanied by agitation, for decades. Per the study, Removal of biofilms and stubborn soil by pressure washing, [...]