4 Key Ways To Reduce Your Facility’s Commercial Cleaning Costs

By:Joe TehanonSeptember 26th, 2021

4 Key Ways To Reduce Your Facility’s Commercial Cleaning Costs

The cleanliness of your facility is a priority, especially given the value placed on cleaning and disinfecting during the COVID-19 pandemic. But, keeping your facility clean can be expensive, especially during labor and product shortages.

像任何其他业务,识别方法cut costs is key. However, finding ways to reduce the cost of your commercial cleaning program without sacrificing the level of cleanliness in your facility can seem like a difficult task.

Luckily, there are several aspects of a cleaning program, and many can be streamlined or optimized to help you save money.

虽然一些关键的方法来降低成本may actually cost money to implement initially, the long-term savings can help reduce your expenses significantly. Similarly, some ways to save money may take some time to implement, but the savings can lead to larger profits and lower operating costs.

In this article, we’ll review 4 ways you can reduce the overall cost of your cleaning program, which includes:

实施稀释控制系统
切换到供电设备
Provide Formal Janitorial Training
Limit Waste With Controlled Consumption

1. Implement a Dilution Control System

131100703 - Spartan Versa Fill 集中的清洁化学品要求您的团队手动测量和稀释化学品。

When your staff has to pour out cleaning chemicals to prepare them, there is an increased risk of injury or accidents like spills, splashes, or slips which can result in higher workers’ compensation costs.

Dilution control systems确保清洁解决方案适当稀释供使用。

With the use of a dilution control system, there’s less risk of chemical accidents because the system handles all of the chemical measurements and mixing, producing an appropriately diluted solution.

Aside from safety, there is an increased risk that your janitorial team can accidentally dilute chemicals incorrectly with manual dilution.

Improper dilution of cleaning chemicals can result in wasted products and increased cleaning costs.

When mixing by hand, many people use the “glug-glug” method to dilute chemicals. This method is measuring chemicals by hand and relying on just eyesight to define measurements. This is not properly measuring out chemicals and can result in over or under-diluted cleaning solutions.

使用过多的化学物质可能是危险的，也可以在表面上留下化学残留物。相反，当使用太少的化学品时，无法实现适当的清洁，并且可以在整个设施中传播细菌。稀释控制系统消除了这些问题。

When a dilution control system is used, your facility can also save money on purchasing cleaning chemicals. Dilution control provides you with the most cost-effective in-use cost of chemicals.

虽然购买高度浓缩稀释化学品的初始成本将高于其他RTU产品，但产品产量增加，实际的使用成本将大大降低产品成本。

通过使用稀释控制系统妥善稀释化学品，您将能够节省成本和更好的清洁结果。

2. Switch to Powered Equipment

506500101 - CERTO Orbital Autoscrubber 一些最常见的清洁任务是非常耗时和费力的。

值得庆幸的是，动力的janitorial设备可以加快许多清洁过程，甚至完全更换对人类干预的需求。

There are many types of powered janitorial equipment that are designed to increase your cleaning team’s efficiency and boost their productivity.

您可能会从电池供电或自主机器享受最大的提升。

一些Janitorial设备，如背包真空或自动地板洗涤器，是电池供电并在不使用电源线的情况下运行。

With cord-free machines, your staff is able to complete cleaning tasks unrestricted because they’re not limited by power cords. By moving freely, your staff can clean more, faster.

This also helps increase ergonomics and safety for your staff by allowing them to perform cleaning processes with more freedom of movement. They can even clean across multiple areas without having to move from outlet to outlet.

例如，通过从直立的有线真空吸尘器切换到电池供电的背包真空，您可以看到生产率增加230％。

如上所述，一些动力设备可以完全自动化，就像sweeper vacuumsand自动扫述器。

这些自主机器可以完成清洁任务，无需用户操作，允许您的员工在机器运行时完成其他工作。

自主设备还允许由于存储在机器中的计算机生成的清洁路由而增加的清洁一致性，然后每次都完全遵循。增加的一致性意味着更大的清洁度和更少的返工。

向您的清洁程序添加供电设备可能会大大缩短您的工作人员花费完成手动任务的时间，从而为您的业务提供劳动力。

3.提供正式的janitorial培训

Janitorial training can save your company money on labor and employee turnover costs.

During training, your team will learn the most efficient and up-to-date cleaning practices. These practices allow your staff to clean with the least amount of errors while also achieving consistency within their cleaning processes.

With fewer mistakes, your staff can achieve more during their cleaning shifts since they don’t have to spend time (or additional product) on reworks.

EBP Training Academy Crop Some things janitorial training can teach your staff include:

The necessary safety precautions to take before working with chemicals
The recommended PPE and the steps to properly put it on
How to choose the right cleaner for the task at hand
Proper preparation and use of cleaners and disinfectants (proper dilution, wet dwell time, etc.)
每个清洁应用程序的适当程序，以确保均匀的结果
The importance of their job and the integral role they play in keeping the facility clean and safe

训练also sets the standards for cleaning expectations in your facility. Clear expectations tell your team exactly how cleaning should be done every single time to avoid reworks.

通过培训整个清洁人员，您可以在整个工作人员在适当的清洁系统和程序上培训以来，在整个设施中都能体验清洁的统一性。

When your team receives formal janitorial training, they experience increased confidence and comfort in the procedures they’ve been trained in. This boost in comfort and confidence can reduce employee turnover which lowers turnover costs, including the costs of recruiting and hiring.

4. Limit Waste With Controlled Consumption

Essity Tork Peakserve Product waste can also be contributing to high operational costs.

It’s easy for your guests to overuse products like soap and towel products when they have unrestricted access to them.

If given the opportunity, people often take more than they require, especially with paper towels, tissue, soap, and other products. Eliminating excess use of your products is important to make sure that you aren’t replenishing more often than is needed.

However, controlled consumption limits the amount the people in your building use by dispensing or releasing a predetermined amount of product.

When you use an automated paper towel dispenser, you could see between a30-57% decreasein napkin usage. Since dispensers distribute one sheet at a time, your building’s occupants don’t take more than they need to dry their hands.

Cutting down on wasted products also reduces the amount of time and money your company spends to replenish them. When the use of products is controlled, they last longer and require less frequent refills.

通过在洗手间使用纸巾分配器，您可以最大限度地减少您建筑物垃圾中人员的纸巾数量。分配器释放预定量的纸巾，并使您的卷持续更长时间。

Final Thoughts

降低商业清洁程序的总成本似乎有挑战性，但您可以实现各种方式。

One being, through the use of a dilution control system designed to help reduce the risk of worker injury and product waste. Without manually diluting products, the risk of accidents is minimized and you can save on the cost of cleaning chemicals.

Your team can also see a boost in productivity by adding powered janitorial equipment to your cleaning program. Powered janitorial cleaning equipment could be beneficial in lessening the amount of time it takes to complete cleaning tasks.

通过正式的janitorial培训提供您的员工可以通过确定清洁流程的清晰期望来帮助减少清洁时间。拥有一支了解最有效的清洁方法，也可以减少对闭合的需求。

另一种帮助您降低清洁计划成本的另一种有效的方法是利用受控消费系统限制浪费产品的量。通过提供可用于您的客人使用的预定量的肥皂和纸产品，也有助于节省补充物品。

Interested in implementing one or more of these cost-saving methods?

If you’re located in the United States, Puerto Rico, or the Caribbean, EBP and other Imperial Dade locations can supply your facility’s janitorial needs.Contact EBP today有关帮助评估您当前的清洁计划，并帮助确定有效减少整体清洁费用的方法。