Why Should Glasgow Cleaning Staff Have A Colour Code?

One of the main reasons which most of you will fully understand is the need to keep materials and equipment separate to prevent any cross contamination and spread of infection from one area to anther.

For example this Glasgow Cleaning company will use red equipment (cloths, mops and buckets etc) in toilets, yellow in kitchens and blue in general areas. This is part of the standards suggested by British Institute of Cleaning Science (BICSc) a professional body to which The Glasgow Cleaners subscribe.

One particular restaurant chain insisted we use their own colour code system based on what the main franchise company required. They were using the American cleaning colour code. However we believe whichever colour code is being used it is essential that Glasgow cleaning companies stick to it at all times.

Let me give you a real example of why a Glasgow cleaning colour code is essential.

Last year I was giving a quote for a new cleaning contract  and I walked into a night club being cleaned by “professional” Glasgow Cleaners to have a look at what was going to be involved.  Seeing something I was not sure about I quickly asked the cleaner (who happened to be that Glasgow cleaning company supervisor) why she appeared to be using a red bucket and a blue mop.  I knew the national cleaning company she worked for were members of the BICSc.

She responded saying it was part of the colour code system her Glasgow cleaning company used. (She did not know why I was there and had assumed I was part of the nightclub management team.)  She then went on to explain that this Glasgow cleaning company only used red mops in the toilets whilst pointing to a rather dirty red mop leaning up against the bar. The red mop had obviously just been used for cleaning the toilet floor as there was a small pool of water beside it.

She had then swapped the red mop for a blue one and carried on mopping the tiled floor. So the cleaner had picked up the blue mop and plunged it straight into the dirty contaminated water used to clean the toilet floors and started washing behind the bar and into the food preparation areas.

The red cleaning bucket  still contained the same dirty water so it defeated the aim of changing the mops — didn’t it?

The cleaner had been told about the Glasgow cleaning company colour code practice but not understood the reasoning behind it.

I made two  mental notes at that time

Firstly not to eat at that night club again until they had changed their Glasgow cleaning company.

Secondly when we took over the contract I would ensure that supervisor was given very full induction training to educate her on our Glasgow cleaning standards. I would also alert our own Glasgow cleaning inspection team members of what I had seen so they could monitor.

Seriously this night-club was catering for between 200 and 6oo people depending on which night of the week it was and creating a health hazard for all its members.

Even if you are not visiting this night club but sharing an office building with a number of other workers. We should all be asking ourselves if the same mop is being used to clean the toilets and then taken into your kitchen area can we be sure it is not spreading infections that could lead to food poisoning problems across all your staff.

Is that dirty cleaning cloth that was used to clean the toilet now being used to clean your kitchen sink and worktop?

The Glasgow Cleaning Colour Code

You can be sure that all our staff are properly trained on our Glasgow cleaning standards and the reason for having standards. This is done during the initial  induction staff training session and then followed up in our regular revision training sessions.

Are your current Glasgow cleaning staff following the colour code practice properly?  If you want to know even more about a colour code or  a quote for your Glasgow cleaning or discover more about how The Glasgow Cleaners differ from most other Glasgow cleaning companies give me a ring now on 0141 433 0985.