Safety is of course paramount if you’re maintaining a factory, warehouse, or food processing facility – but have you considered the importance of safety when it comes to your industrial cleaning service? Everyone in the workplace is responsible for safety and wellbeing, and that should extend to your cleaning provider too.
Here’s why it’s absolutely essential to work with a safety-aware cleaning industrial cleaning company.
First, the Importance of Your Worker Safety
Informed industrial cleaning helps to protect the safety of your own workers. Your staff may be dealing with dangerous chemicals, working at heights or operating powerful equipment on a daily basis.
The very last thing anyone needs is for their safety or wellbeing to be compromised during cleaning processes. This is the first area where the importance of safety-informed commercial cleaning quickly becomes obvious.
Your cleaning provider should be:
- Working with you to schedule cleaning outside of high traffic periods
- Using clear signage to warn of wet floors or other hazards, and
- Able to attend to spills and messes with the appropriate cleaning equipment and solutions – particularly as incorrect usage could make the situation even more dangerous in an industrial setting.
Of course, to align with your own workplace safety principles and requirements, your cleaning team needs to be fully informed as to possible risks and risk mitigation strategies. Which brings us to:
The Importance of Safety-Informed Cleaning Teams
Industrial cleaning professionals face numerous occupational hazards themselves, which is another reason safe practices are so important.
Make sure you are working with an industrial or warehouse cleaning company that clearly values:
- The provision and proper use of personal protective equipment (PPE)
- Training about correct handling of equipment and cleaning solutions
- Rigorous general workplace health and safety training, and
- Implementation of safety protocols for working in confined spaces or at heights, if relevant.
As an example of what this looks like in practice, at AMC we’ve developed our own Cleaning for Health and Safety Program to comply with ISO standards for Work Health and Safety.
This means from office cleaning to specialist industrial cleaning, our cleaning teams are fully equipped to tackle the job safely.
Of course, safety also extends to the environment. Which brings us to:
The Importance of Environmentally Safe Cleaning
Many industrial cleaning processes can potentially harm people and the environment if not managed properly. Environmentally safe cleaning practices help to prevent pollution, minimise wasted resources and ensure responsible waste disposal. They also help you to reach and maintain your own sustainability goals.
Once more, this is an area where reputable industrial cleaning or warehouse cleaning services will have documented procedures in place to ensure safe business cleaning.
For example: alongside our workplace safety and quality management, we also maintain procedures that ensure every AMC cleaning provider complies with ISO Environment Standards. You should expect no less from your cleaning provider.
Find an Industrial Cleaning Service You Can Trust
In conclusion, safety is not just a component of industrial cleaning—it’s one of the first things you should consider when you’re engaging a new cleaning provider. Whether you’re looking for a frequent warehouse floor cleaning service or a full-service provider, AMC Commercial Cleaning can assist in Auckland, Christchurch, Wellington and beyond. We’d be pleased to put together an obligation-free quote for your industrial premises, and all you need to get started is to get in touch.
