Situations where you can implement medical cleaning practices into your residential and commercial cleaning.

  No matter if you are cleaning a house or cleaning a business. If or when you spot blood or other possibly infectious materials (OPIM) use the appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE). Then clean as if you were cleaning a medical facility and always practice good hand hygiene.

  When you wipe or disenfect surfaces use practices used for cleaning medical facilities. For instance, fold your rag so you can use eight sides. Wipe high touch surfaces flipping your rag to a clean side when appropriate so you don't cross contaminate.

  Another practice to implement into your residential or commercial cleaning is best mopping practices. We should always mop bathrooms last. If you use a string mop and bucket be sure to change water when it gets dirty or every 360 square feet for 3 gallons. Mop up to 30 square feet flip mop then mop another 30 square feet then rinse. If you're using a flat mop, mop up to 120 square feet per pad, always mopping the bathroom last. We mop bathrooms with a separate pad. 1 mop pad 1 bathroom still observing the 120 square feet rule.

  While collecting trash whether from a residence or an office building, you should never push down on the trash. Why is this dangerous? Trash can contain sharps or OPIM, examples include but not limited to needles, scalpels, scissors, knives also blood and in some cases vomit. When pushing down on trash you can poke or cut yourself, you could use something to push the trash down, But what if it contains OPIM. When you push down even with an object it can express a mist of OPIM. You could inhale this material or have it enter into your mouth, eyes or nose.

  Know your disinfectant, read the label carefully. Some disinfectants require a rinse some don't, but all have a dwell time. This is how long a surface must remain wet with that disinfectant. NOTE: A 10 min. Dell time disinfectant will require an average of 5-6 applications to keep it wet for the dwell time.

  Implementing these practices can help protect us  loved ones and the population by reducing the spread of harmful germs, viruses and bacteria.

  You can find a provider who will implement these practices into your residential or commercial place. Use the handy link Janitorial SERVICES DIRECTORY