Millions of Americans arrive at their workplace and begin their wok without giving a single thought to the individuals who just hours before cleaned the space. A clean workplace has become an expectation—a basic that’s a must for health and safety reasons,...
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Meet Real Estate’s Odd Couple: Clean Floors and Total Cost of Ownership
For a first-time car buyer, pride and freedom are summarily usurped by a basic economic lesson: Total Cost of Ownership (TCO). No surprise—sleek lines, revving engines, and the new car smell make it easy to lose our senses and fall in love. That’s why the first big...
Continuing to Evolve in the Next – and the Next After That – Normal
This publication originally appeared in the Colorado Real Estate Journal, Property Management Quarterly Issue. The original article is on pages 6-7 of this issue. As fall descends and everything becomes pumpkin spiced, not only does the world continue to deal with...
Continuing to Evolve the Health and Safety of Your Buildings in This “Next Normal”
This publication originally appeared in the BOMA San Diego newsletter, Fall 2021. While there is a sense of “enough already” about hearing about COVID-19, building owners and managers need to maintain efforts to protect building occupants and continue to demonstrate...
Brushing Up on Infectious Disease Cleaning Best Practices
As the globe continues to live through COVID-19, variants such as Delta and Omicron are making getting “back to normal” an ever-moving target. At CCS Facility Services, we’ve invested in the highest-level training in cleaning for infectious disease exposure. This has...
“Handy” Items That May Be Forgotten in Cleaning
In response to the ongoing pandemic, facility managers have significantly upped their emphasis on cleaning for health and preventing the spread of infectious diseases. Despite using best practices, combating COVID-19 and its variants remains an uphill battle. This can...
Understanding Electrostatic Cleaning
As cleaning technology continues to evolve, our methods of disease prevention become more effective. Electrostatic disinfectant has become a more widely used tool in preventing and responding to infectious disease exposure. This method has been proven to be extremely...
Spring Cleaning for Health
With most students and staff members vacating campus for a whole week, educational administrators have a fantastic opportunity to revisit campus cleaning protocols and perform a deep dive in preparation for the end of spring break. Facility teams can use this time to...
The Difference Between Hand Washing & Hand Sanitizing
Originally published in BOMA-San Diego Tips, March 2022 If the pandemic has revealed anything, it is a renewed sense of awareness of how dirty hands can get during the average day. Without thinking, we instinctively touch our eyes, ears, nose, and mouth, which are...
Four Strategies to Extend the Lifespan of Commercial Carpeting
A facility's flooring is one of the first things noticed by people entering a building, and first impressions matter. This makes maintaining carpet cleanliness incredibly important, but what does successful maintenance look like?Mike Milano, General Manager of CCS’...
The Impact of Clean Schools on Student Success and Teacher Retention
Proper cleaning and maintenance in schools can make a meaningful impact on educational success for both young learners and teachers. Consistent, thorough cleaning to protect against any infectious disease – not just COVID-19 but also norovirus or the flu – can enhance...
Cleaning for Common Allergens Inside Commercial Facilities
More than 50 million Americans suffer from allergies every year, making it the 6th leading cause of chronic illness in the United States (American College of Allergy, Asthma, & Immunology). Many forms of allergies can be aggravated by improper cleaning and...
Deciphering Cleaning Product Labels
Cleaning products are the essential tools of any janitorial staff. From disinfectants to cleaning solvents, these items are necessary to create a clean, healthy place of business. However, cleaning products can be dangerous and hazardous to a person’s health if not...
Commercial Cleaning Strategies for Extreme Heat
Facility managers and their teams face unique challenges taking care of their buildings during summer months due to the extreme heat in many regions of the country. These climate conditions can impact the type of cleaning products and strategies needed by janitorial...
Tools of the Trade: Commercial Cleaning & Floorcare
The equipment used in commercial cleaning services can make all the difference in how effectively a job gets done. Cleaning technologies have advanced significantly in recent history, including developments in more environmentally friendly and ergonomic machinery....
Choosing the Right Cleaning Method
The advent of the COVID pandemic brought many new terms into the vernacular. Suddenly, people were talking about viral load and transmissibility and coronavirus – and even learning that the common cold is a type of coronavirus! This new vocabulary also included terms...
The Potential Dangers of Cleaning with Artificially Fragranced Cleaning Products
What does “clean” smell like? Most people may instinctively think of the smell of chemical heavy products like bleach. While scents like “Linen Fresh” and “Ocean Breeze” sound harmless on paper, chemical cleaning products with artificial fragrances have been found by...
Hospital Environmental Services and the Fight Against Respiratory Illnesses
Healthcare facilities’ environmental services teams, commonly known as EVS, are a group of healthcare workers responsible for maintaining a clean and safe environment for patients, providers, visitors, and staff. This includes tasks such as cleaning patient rooms,...
Implement Smart Cleaning and Safety Protocols to Minimize Costly Slips, Trips, and Falls
Slips, trips, and falls are the most common accidents both at work and in daily life. According to OSHA, they account for 15% of all accidental deaths in the U.S., second only to motor vehicle accidents at nearly 24%. The National Safety Council reports 25,000...
The Top 5 Benefits of Professional Janitorial Services
Professional janitorial services play an important role in maintaining clean and safe environments for businesses. For large companies, keeping a clean workspace is not just about appearances. It impacts employee health, safety, and productivity, and helps create a...