Having great janitors means healthier employees

Most of us never even notice janitors in our workplace unless our bathrooms happen to be dirty or our trash cans didn't get emptied. If something like that goes wrong then we all start complaining about how lousy our janitors are or we call and complain to the company about the janitors not doing their job. None of us ever really stop and think about if we have great janitors that means healthier employees.

There are numerous reasons that having great janitors means healthier employees, but the biggest problem is that we never even give our janitors a second thought until something doesn't get done around the office. As an employer the next time you or your employees think about complaining about a trashcan not getting emptied you need to take a second to think about your overall employee health before you start saying you have a lousy janitor.

One of the most important things that you janitor does that leads to healthier employees is keeping the bathrooms clean. This is one of the most important areas to keep clean because most of the germs in an office actually come from inside of the employees' bathroom. Therefore if you have a great janitor who uses the proper products to clean the bathroom on a regular basis, which means every night for a night janitor or every couple of hours if you have a day janitor. The cleaner the bathroom is means that fewer germs will be breeding in the bathroom, which means that there will be less germs around the office. The smaller number of germs around the office means that fewer employees will be getting sick from germs floating around.

The janitor is also going to be in charge of cleaning the break room and other employee areas. Although not as many germs breed in these areas it is still important to keep them clean so that fewer germs are around. The only way to reduce the number of germs in any location is to make sure that it is properly cleaned, which means cleaning it thoroughly with disinfectants. Most people think that in order for an area to be thoroughly cleaned that it has to be cleaned more than once a day, which this partly true, but cleaning the area just once a day is just as effective.

If you have a great janitor something else that they will do that you will never even notice is to sanitize each employees work area. What this means is that once a week or more if asked and agreed to in the contract, the janitor will wipe down all of the keyboards and work stations so that everything is properly sanitized. This goes a long way towards reducing the number of employees who get sick because of how much stuff we touch in our work stations. Phones, keyboards, and desk surfaces all get touched more than once a day, which leaves germs behind. To get rid of the germs the area has to be thoroughly cleaned.

No matter how much stuff a janitor cleans in order to reduce the amount of germs in the office the janitor has to make sure that everything is properly cleaned. If things are cleaned, but not cleaned properly nothing is going to be done to improve employee health. In order to clean things properly your janitor is going to have to follow the instructions on the chemicals that they are using so that they can destroy the germs that lurk on specific surfaces. A great janitor knows how to use each cleaning chemical and which chemicals will work on which surfaces to kill the germs that lurk there.

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