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Originally published & reprinted with permission from CleanLink Online
By: Mickey Crowe

Office cleaning will vary according to whether you utilize zone or team cleaning. Although team cleaning is almost always more productive, some customers and situations require zone cleaning. Zone cleaning is when a person is responsible for cleaning the entire floor or area by themselves including trash collection, vacuuming, dusting, etc. Team cleaning is when a team of four (or more or less) perform certain specialist functions in the same area. 

Following are the suggested steps for a zone cleaner to clean an office area:

1. Prepare your cart or barrel for cleaning by making sure that you have all of the supplies and tools necessary to do the job. Be sure that you have access to and are wearing correcting any required PPE’s (personal protective equipment) which also means you need to have read and understand the MSDS information.

2. Check your schedule or organize your route so that you begin in an area and methodically clean a section/area/room at a time. It is recommended your supervisor has provided a job card listing the route (Example: Room 102, then 104, then waiting area, etc.) with time requirements for how long it should take to perform the required tasks.

By Barbara Shapiro, Sales Administrator, WAXIE Sanitary Supply

On the morning of Saturday, November 16th, several of WAXIE’s Tucson employees, their guests, and employees from other organizations volunteered their time at the Community Food Bank of Southern Arizona.

The WAXIE employees helped pack emergency food boxes for Southern Arizona residents. The volunteers spent three hours packing over 2600 boxes of food, which weighed a total of 40,000 lbs! This opportunity proved to be a rewarding way for our employees to get involved in fighting hunger, and a great way for them to meet other like-minded individuals.

Some facts about Community Food Bank of Southern Arizona:
•    They distribute enough food for 62,800 meals a day
•    For every $1.00 donated, they can distribute nearly $9.00 worth of food
•    Their programs assist people within 23,106 square miles of Southern Arizona

For more information on the Community Food Bank please visit: http://communityfoodbank.com/

Originally published & reprinted with permission in Housekeeping Solutions on Clean Link Online
By J. Darrel Hicks, BA, REH, CHESP

According to best practices, you should strive to minimize contamination of cleaning solutions and cleaning tools. Bucket solutions become contaminated almost immediately during cleaning, and continued use of the solution transfers increasing numbers of microorganisms to each subsequent surface to be cleaned. Cleaning solutions should be replaced frequently.

A variety of “bucket” methods have been devised to address the frequency with which cleaning solutions are replaced. This best practice will reduce water consumption, save trips to the closet to exchange dirty water for clean, and eliminate spreading germs. Simply set up a bucket with clean solution at the beginning of the shift and then put 15 to 20 clean cloths in the solution.

You must always start with a clean cloth when you wipe or disinfect a surface. Fold the cloth in half and half again. As you wipe each new area, unfold the cloth to an unused portion. This method provides you with eight clean surfaces with each cloth. Add more clean cloths as necessary to complete your day.

2013 WAXIE Fest Ontario

By: Briana Smith, WAXIE Sanitary Supply

First off, we’d like to thank everyone for all of their hard work organizing, setting up, and making sure that WAXIE Fest was a success. We’d also like to thank our customers for coming out to check on the all the latest products & innovations in the industry.

We know that sometimes it really helps to be able to see the products in person — to be able to compare a couple of different floor machines, carpet extractors, paper towel dispensers, chemical dilution systems or products, etc. all in one place at one time.

WAXIE’s bee even showed up and made some awesome dance moves as it made its way around the show. 

To view photos of the event, check out the WAXIE Fest album on our Facebook or Google+ pages.

Originally published & reprinted with permission from CleanLink Online

Everyone has a unique personality. But did you know that you and the people you work with each day also have unique germ personalities? A new quiz from Kimberly-Clark Professional* can tell you where you stand on the germaphobe spectrum as well as how the germ personalities (and hygiene habits) of co-workers, colleagues and others can impact your health.

With cold-and-flu season on its way, knowing your germ personality could be more important than you think. Whether you're a "Fearful Fanatic" or a "Proud Exterminator," if you're among the more than one third of the population who are germ anxious, you may want to prepare sooner rather than later.

That's because many of the people around you are "Unconcerned" (in quiz terminology), which means they may not have the best hygiene habits. As a result, they can spread germs to others via commonly touched surfaces in offices, hotels, schools, stadiums and other locations. These germ "hot spots" are breeding grounds for illness-causing bacteria -- including cold, flu and stomach bugs.

Originally published & reprinted with permission from CleanLink Online
By: Corinne Zudonyi, Editor