What is ICM?
Integrated Cleaning and Measurement (ICM) is an open-source system in which best practices are defined by scientific measurement of cleaning outcomes. Why is measurement a main component of ICM? The professionalism of the cleaning industry with resulting positive impacts on [...]
Evidence-based Cleaning for Health (EB-CFH) for Healthier Spaced-based Outcomes
Evidence-based Cleaning for Health is research into and measurement of cleaning processes and results to enable higher-quality and healthier spaced-based outcomes. Since room-related environmental factors (e.g., ventilation, non-cleaning-related pollutants indoors) are as important as cleaning, EB-CFH is linked to [...]
Should We Use Environmental Monitoring Devices?
Lifewire recently interviewed IHC for an article on personal devices that measure pollution. Below are their questions and our responses. 1) Why are personal devices that measure pollution important? Personal environmental monitoring devices can be important because risk = [...]
The High Cost of Wearing Street Shoes Indoors
Wearing street shoes indoors comes at a price: you may be tracking heavy metal dust from roadways, pesticide residues, and other unwanted substances. The Japanese custom of leaving street shoes in a rack by the door and donning alternate [...]
The Road to Success: Provide Value
In his book, Guerrilla Marketing to Heal the World, green business expert Shel Horowitz says: "In the business world, we hear a lot about cutthroat competition and gaining advantage over the enemy. In some circles, it seems to be a [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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
Expectations for Better, Measured Cleaning
Expectations can be self-fulfilling prophecies. “Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is.
Integrated Cleaning and Measurement (ICM) for Upward Mobility
By Tony Almeida Should we rank janitors? Does this encourage upward mobility? Yes, but only if the way they are ranked comes from useful criteria. "Ranking is not a measurement system. Ranking is ordering, not measuring," states Ed Baker states [...]