by Brianna Crandall — September 21, 2016 — Worldwide cleaning industry association ISSA has added three new titles in recent weeks to its collection of free ISSA-TV Educational Quick Clip cleaning industry-related videos. In the new educational videos, industry experts cover: developing a quality cleaning plan; cleaning times for hospitals; and basic vacuum maintenance and operation.
ISSA-TV: Transparent Quality
In the latest Educational Quick Clip video, ISSA Cleaning Industry Management Standard (CIMS) Assessor Cliff Beiser explains how to increase profitability and take a company’s cleaning plan one step further by discovering what is important to their customers. According to Beiser, the best organizations always involve their clients when developing a quality cleaning plan.
ISSA-TV: Keep It Clean: Cleaning Times for Hospitals
The free video for the week of August 25 asks: “How much time should your staff spend cleaning a hospital room? Twelve minutes? Twenty? Thirty? What are the standard cleaning times for different types of hospital rooms? And what about rooms with isolation precautions?”
In the Quick Clip, environmental consultant Keith Sopha, president of Good Choice Cleaning Services Inc. and founder of CleanLearning, outlines a project by the Canadian Association of Environmental Management that analyzes how much time workers actually spend and how those times compare to benchmarks set by U.S. and Canadian health agencies.
ISSA-TV: Vacuuming 101: Basic Vacuum Maintenance and Operation
For the layperson, operating a vacuum cleaner seems like a no-brainer: turn it on, run it across the floor, and empty it when done. But cleaning industry professionals know that it is crucial to understand proper vacuum operation in order to meet today’s cleaning standards.
In the Educational Quick Clip video for the week of August 10, IICRC Master Textile Cleaner Richard Bodo, director of training at Kärcher North America, reviews the basics of operating and maintaining vacuum cleaners, including a step-by-step process to follow before flipping the “on” switch.
