Cleaning for Health
3 Ways Commercial Cleaning Products May Affect Your Health
The use of cleaning products is essential in keeping a space sanitized and free from bacteria or viruses that may affect people’s health. Nowadays, many people prioritize keeping their area spotless, whether it’s their homes or workplaces. However, if you […]
4M Building Solutions Wins 2020 Cleaning for Health Award with Strong Practices
4M Building Solutions Wins 2020 Cleaning for Health Award with Strong Practices
The Problem with Indoor Air Quality
When we think about the amount of contaminants inside a home it is little wonder that asthma and allergies are on the rise. There is regular, tracked-in dirt. But there are also microscopic contaminants that make their way indoors on the bottom of our shoes as residues and particulates too small to see with the naked eye. While cleaning businesses can’t stop these unwanted guests from entering, we can add value to families that need help keeping this problem contained.
The Green Cleaning Issue - Prologue
Although green cleaning has been around since the 1970’s it is still not a mainstream concept, broadly speaking. While there are certain US markets where environmentalism is woven into the ethos of the community they are still in the minority. […]
Part 1: Green Cleaning - It's Your Business
Anyone can say they clean green. But what does that mean? Many shades of green exist within the spectrum of green cleaning. How green is green? The varied scenarios include businesses that mix their own natural cleaning products (with or […]
Part 2: Green Cleaning - Educating Customers
The authenticity of your green cleaning program depends on two things – the completeness of your green protocol and how you talk about it. The former is addressed in Part 4. This article details decisions related to your public messaging […]
Part 3: Green Cleaning - Engaging Employees
Probably every residential cleaning service has a few cleaning technicians that are packing “heat” – in this case contraband super-cleaners like bleach – beneath the passenger seat, just for special occasions. So it stands to follow that changing up your […]
Part 4 - Green Cleaning Service Delivery
At the heart of the decisions about your green cleaning protocols is really who you want to be as a company (see Part 1). “For me, the criteria had to do with my comfort level with the solution ingredients and […]
Better decisions from better air
Researchers enrolled 24 “knowledge workers,” people who were corporate managers, architects, and designers. The workers spent six days in a controlled work environment, working from 9 am to 5 pm each day.
How do you clean for a cancer patient?
Cleaning for a cancer patient is especially important because their immune system is suppressed. We should clean for health first and appearance second. How do you clean for a cancer patient? This question came up recently at Castle Keepers House […]
