

A Greener Way to Disinfect
How to fight pathogens with minimal environmental impact By Stephen Ashkin Cleaning professionals will encounter situations in which...


How to keep pests from seeking shelter in your facility.
By Patrick Copps Summer storms have been popping up across the country for the past few months. These summer showers can cause an...


Don't let wood scare you.
By Grant Aslett Many of us are afraid of washing wood — no doubt because of the horror stories of wood floor cleaning jobs gone bad. But,...


Paper Towels Versus Hand Dryers
A predicament of personal preference for removing moisture from hands. For the 71 percent of Americans that a recent survey from SCA...


Will the Minimum Wage Increases affect your janitorial pricing?
Legislation to Boost Minimum Wage Approved in New York, CaliforniaCalifornia Governor Jerry Brown and New York Governor Andrew Cuomo have...


Caring for Concrete
Tips for extending the life of your floor During the past year, the Institute of Inspection, Cleaning and Restoration Certification...


The Future of Cleaning
The world’s largest cleaning show was recently held in Amsterdam, Netherlands. In case you missed it, here’s a review of some of the...


How to Develop your annual maintenance program.
If a facility only relied only on routine maintenance, it wouldn’t take long until health violations, lackluster carpets, and dull hard...


How to make recycling more effective
If you trace the history of the green and sustainability movement in the United States all the way back to the mid- to late-1960s, you...


Infection Prevention in the Modern Office
We’ve witnessed a number of changes in how people work; or possibly, we should say in where people work. In the late 1980s, the idea of...