Regardless of whether you have a cleaning service that
cleans your program, your staff does it by themselves, or some combination of
the two, it’s very important to know who is responsible for doing what and
when. If you hire an outside cleaning
service, you need to have someone who manages the contract—makes sure that the
contract includes all necessary tasks and that those tasks are being completed
according to the agreed-upon schedule.
If your staff is responsible for all or part of the
cleaning, as is the case in most programs, they need to know who does what and
when. Someone should do a walk-through of
the program in the morning, before the first children arrive, to make sure
everything is clean and prepared for the day.
Many sanitizing solutions need to be prepared daily. Is each classroom responsible for their own
solution or is it prepared in a central location for all rooms? How do you make sure items that are soiled
during the day are removed and cleaned before being available to children
again? Who is responsible for any
cleaning that needs to happen before and after meals and/or snacks? Is someone assigned to do a walk-through at
the end of the day to make sure that everything is cleaned up and ready for
morning?
Assigning specific tasks to specific individuals (or job
titles) with time frames in which they are to be completed will help you to
ensure that your program stays clean. And,
as with a commercial cleaning contract, tasking someone to oversee the cleaning
ensures that the cleaning is happening as it should and when it should. If you don't already have a Cleaning Schedule, check ours out here.
Misty
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