It is more common than you may realise for our cleaners to handle hazardous substances during office cleaning. These hazardous substances include disinfectants, high strength bleach, and fuel products. Our cleaners have the risk of being exposed to dangerous fumes, or splashed with caustic liquids, and other substances. This can result in injury or health issues.
Our cleaners are thoroughly Health and Safety trained, following the cleaning guidelines recommended to reduce the risk of exposure. We ensure our cleaners use the right safety protocols when handling hazardous substances, by wearing gloves and eye protection. We even ask them to wear a mask when working with certain cleaning products.
When cleaning with products we know are hazardous, the cleaner will ensure the office is well ventilated, reducing the risk of the fumes building up and becoming problematic for your team.
In addition to this, our cleaners will wash their hands frequently when handling cleaning products, reducing the risk of the cleaning products staying on their skin for too long.
Our cleaners carry out a host of cleaning duties that we know are important to ensuring your office is clean and hygienic. This can include mopping, dusting, sweeping, vacuuming, waxing floors, emptying bins, wiping down surfaces, disinfecting, and more. Some of these duties are potentially dangerous based on how the work is carried out.
Did you know that there are three thousand serious accidents reported in the cleaning industry each year. This is due to our cleaners being exposed to hazardous substances, manual handling, working alone, and there is an increased risk of slips and falls. We have taken effective steps, along with ongoing training, to ensure our cleaners are up to date with health and safety regulations, they know how to use cleaning products correctly, along with ensuring they have a good understanding on using any cleaning equipment.
Manual handling is often caused by the incorrect use of equipment, such as vacuum cleaners, or floor buffing machines. Yes our cleaners do a demanding and labour intensive job, but we do ensure that they have the knowledge to carry out their duties safely, reducing their risk of injury when cleaning your office.
Our cleaners are taught how to lift heavier items properly before they can start working on their own. They also shadow an experienced cleaner for a few days to a week, learning on-the-job training, including lifting procedures and how to safely and effectively use different pieces of cleaning equipment.
Our cleaners are constantly faced with hazardous substances, toilet cleaners, window cleaners, polishes, and bleach are all cleaning products we use regularly. Our cleaners are thoroughly trained in reading cleaning product labels before luxe, along with only using cleaning products for their intended use. They use gloves, masks, and goggles where necessary.
Cleaners are exposed to slips and falls in their work environment, in fact it makes up close to thirty percent of all workplace injuries in the cleaning industry. We have a strict uniform that our cleaners must wear, which includes wearing the appropriate shoes. We ensure our team wear shoes that have a good grip, especially if they are working where there is a high risk of spills.
At Sloane Cleaning, we take the training of our cleaners very seriously. They receive orientation training, before shadowing one of our experienced cleaners, learning on the job training. This is followed by working on their own, while being supervised by a member of our team. We also provide ongoing and regular training to our cleaners, ensuring that they remain updated with health and safety regulations, helping them reduce the risk of accidents when handling potential hazards in your office space.