Cleaning…A Definition:
As a Health and Hygienic Issue: To make safe for human habitation. To reduce and or remove potentially unsafe biological contaminates and germs within an indoor environment in an effort to reduce exposure to unhealthy issues.
As a Cosmetic Issue: To make more appealing. To satisfy subjective vanity concerns. To hide unpleasant blemishes. To optically enhance a visually unpalatable issue.
As Both a Health and Cosmetic Issue: To combine both definitions as described above.
We are the only carpet cleaning company that we are aware of whose primary focus is Health Care cleaning. We have spent years researching the contaminates which reside within our homes and buildings, and we have designed cleaning (healthful cleaning solutions) programs to address Indoor Health Quality. You will not find health care as the primary focus of any other carpet cleaning company. They may say that cleaning carpeting is healthy, but you must remember, it is not what you do, but how you do it. Most companies provide healthy amounts of Lip service, unfortunately, assuming that because they “cleaned” for cosmetic issues, it (whatever was “cleaned”) by default must therefore be healthier. Frankly, cosmetic cleaning runs counter to hygienic cleaning, however, if performed correctly, the two issues can be combined for a healthy and cosmetically appealing result. Why do we wash our hands many many times each day? To remove germs of course.
I recently read an article entitled “10 things your hospital won’t tell you, You may leave sicker than when you came in.” The article described how approximately 2 million people per year in the USA alone contract hospital related infections, and about 90,000 (over 100,000 is more accurate) of them will die from an infection such as MRSA, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. That’s equal to about 300 people dying every day from an infection contracted during a stay at a hospital. Just imagine, most of those illnesses and deaths are preventable. Unfortunately, poorly trained janitors using poorly devised “cleaning” procedures do not address health and hygienic issues. They merely address cosmetic issues in the hopes that their effort leads to an improvement in the indoor environmental quality. Truly, it is the administrators of cleaning programs who are ultimately responsible for the lack of education regarding the objectives of appropriate health and hygienic focused results. In fact, it is administrators of cleaning programs who define cleaning as a cosmetic issue. They realize that their job is dependent upon appearance, and unfortunately, they must spend a majority of their efforts satisfying cosmentic issues at the expense of human safety.