What makes an organised cleaning cupboard?

What makes an organised cleaning cupboard?

You can tell a lot from your cleaning cupboards about the standard of cleaning across your facility.

An effectively managed cleaning cupboard will have visual controls and be as it is found at the end of every shift.  But that’s easier said than done!  Here’s 3 simple steps to help:

1. Wall Charts

Having visual guides to back up training is a great way to ensure your team has the knowledge required before they start their daily clean.  On your wall chart we recommend you show any COSHH symbols, visuals of the products and dosing and colour coding information.

Making product at the correct dilution is absolutely essential to make sure your cleaning team is being both safe and effective.  The visual guide shows how many dosing pumps to add to every trigger spray or mop bucket.  A good chart will also make it more visual with pictures of the product and also pictures of the areas it should be used in, as well as usage instructions.  Visual guides make it easier for multi-lingural cleaning teams.

Our inhouse design team are very happy to bespoke brand one of our wall charts for you, with the products you use at each site, to make it easy to get started.

2. A Rationalised Stock Holding

It’s not uncommon to see an over-full cleaning cupboard, with lots of products which can all be used for the same task, or are no longer relevant to the current cleaning regime.  It’s good practice to regularly take stock of the products you are currently using.

A Rationalised Washroom Range

Often a site will have different types of toilet paper, hand towels or soap across the site.  A good question to discuss with your clients is whether this is really necessary or if making things simpler with a standardised range across the site, and cutting costs would make it easier for everyone?

A Rationalised Chemical Range

This is an area where things regularly get complex.  Often cleaning operatives will have products that they prefer to use, but having multiple products for the same task makes reordering stock more time consuming. 

 3. Having a Place for Everything

Everyones heard ‘a place for everything in its place’.  Here’s a couple of ideas to apply to your cleaning cupboard:

Have a place for every product.

Labelling the shelves with set places for where every product should sit makes keeping your cleaning cupboard tidy, very simple! 

If you’ve got items that don’t have a space on the shelf, but sit on the floor, you could consider using floor markings or labels to make where this should live.

Have a wall bracket for handles

Having a wall bracket to hang your handles on is a great way of getting the wet mop heads off the floor, but also having the handles in a place where they dont always fall and cause a trip hazard, or get in the way when you need something else.  It is also much more hygienic than having mop heads sat in a mop bucket!