There is no more serious concern in the professional commercial cleaning business than cross contamination and one of the ways the industry is fighting this important battle is by implementing color-coded cleaning systems. In hospitals, restaurants, schools and offices sickness can spread rapidly through cross contamination. If a janitor, cleaning staff member or custodian touches something that has been infected or contaminated and then uses a cloth or mop and transfers it to another surface untold negative results can occur. Gator Cleaning Solutions has been using a color coded cleaning system for years to help partner with our customers in avoiding cross contamination in facility cleaning.

Colored wipes and tools can reduce this problem dramatically and prevent contagions. An example of this is although restrooms represent only 5% of a buildings space, they house over 80% of the germs in any given location.  You don’t want to mop a floor in a room where patients have been treated and then use that same mop to clean a bathroom floor or a workroom. It is expected that workers clean their tools properly and then put them away but that doesn’t always happen the way it should. You need to be assured that people are doing the right thing and color coding helps with this consistency.

The most important facility where this is beyond critical is the health care industry. High profile incidents of hospital-acquired infections have increased serious attention to developing systems to help combat this problem. Color-coding makes it easier to teach the systems to workers and ultimately provide a much more professional and consistent result while lowering the occurrence of HAI in health care facilities.

Another benefit of developing these systems is the large number of workers in the industry who speak English as a second language. Color-coding helps bridge the language barrier as workers can more easily understand which areas are cleaned with which color. In addition to simplifying the cleaning process by labeling tools and products by color, there are charts available to reinforce the process with simple visual cues.

All of these new color-coding materials will help streamline procedures and make consistent cleaning more effective especially in the area of cross contamination. For your custom cleaning quote give Gator Cleaning Solutions a call 813-929-1122!