Next to Godliness: Top Cleaning Tools and Tips for Your Workplace
No one wants to live in squalor. Just as well, no one wants to work in squalor since many people spend a significant portion of their time in the workplace. By this logic, your selection and maintenance of office cleaning supplies pose a critical bearing to the well-being of both your business and workers.
The mop bucket symbolizes modern efficiency in office sanitation.
However, keeping your offices tidy need not be a problem for you or your custodial staff. Mechanical janitorial tools nowadays make the tedious job of scrubbing down your office less of an ordeal. Here are some cleaning tools you need to remember when keeping your workplace in top shape.
Sweep and Swipe: Brooms and Mops
A modern broom is an essential cleaning tool, particularly for facilities conscious of their power consumption.
Though brooms have been around for much of human history, modern janitorial brooms are a variety apart from their domestic cousins. A well-designed janitorial broom is an efficient and resilient cleaning tool. Its stiff bristles quickly collect dust and grime, while its long handle keeps custodians from bending over too often and stressing their backs. The modern broom’s angled head helps cleaning corners and around or under furniture easy.
Modern mops are also a far cry from the cartoon illustrations of rags at the end of a pole. Equipped with highly absorbent microfiber beards and articulated heads, mop designs nowadays are well-suited to cleaning large areas quickly and efficiently.
Brooms and mops may demand a bit more physical effort from your custodial staff. But unlike mechanical vacuum cleaners or floor polishers, brooms and mops generate little noise, cost less, and require little maintenance. Choose the best combination of brooms and mops to keep your offices tidy.
Roll it Out: Utility and Cleaning Carts
The classic cleaning cart is equipped with multiple shelves for cleaning tools, supplies and containers.
Brooms and mops are useful but can’t transport the dirt and liquid they clean up. For that, the most efficient tool available to a mobile custodial staff is a cart. From the age old table-with-wheels to the specially designed multi-shelf monstrosities from specialty providers, cleaning and utility carts provide efficient mobile storage for cleaning supplies and the tools needed to apply them.
Kept in nearby supply closets to quickly attend to emergency cleanups or wheeled about on periodic rounds, cleaning carts perform best when equipped with shelves for holding everything a sanitary engineer might need to tidy up a given area. Those might include racks to hold mops, brooms or machinery; waste receptacles; or spare disinfecting supplies.
Some specialized carts designed for floor cleaning contain special buckets and wringers that allow your personnel to clean mops and convey liquid without having to use their hands. That’s a prime advantage in maintaining personal hygiene.
More general-purpose utility carts can also be useful for moving around equipment, replenishing office supplies, or doing things that aren’t strictly related to cleaning.
Whatever your cleaning needs are, make sure you’ve got these essential cleaning tools to help your staff keep your office space spick-and-span.
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