Cleaning Machine: Wisconsin Prison Adopts No-Touch Cleaning

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The Wisconsin Secure Program Facility (WSPF), Boscobel, WI, reports they are now cleaning the facility using No-Touch Cleaning equipment developed by Kaivac, Inc.
 
The 205,590-square-foot facility retains its own custodians and has nine cleaning workers and one lead custodian maintaining the entire institution.
 
According to a report by WSPF, using the Kaivac equipment, “the [high-quality] cleanliness the prison strives for is very apparent.”  
 
The Kaivac system applies cleaning chemicals to surfaces to be cleaned. The same areas are then rinsed, washing away soils, which are then vacuumed up using the systems built-in wet/vac.
 
“The Kaivac system decreases the risk of contamination to both staff and inmates,” according to the WSPF report. “It also allows staff to be in and out of areas more rapidly, improving worker productivity and increasing the number of cells cleaned.”
 
According to Matt Morrison, communications manager for Kaivac, studies by ISSA, report that using no-touch equipment can be as much as two-thirds faster than using conventional cleaning procedures such as mops and buckets.
 
Further, studies presented by the Cleaning Industry Research Institute (CIRI) indicate that cleaning with the no-touch system more effectively removes contaminants from surfaces.
 
“The spread of disease, including increasing cases of MRSA, are very serious problems in correctional facilities,” adds Morrison. “It’s because [no-touch] systems are fast and effective that prison administrators at WSPF and other facilities are selecting them.”

Getting In and Out of Prison….Cells
WSPF is the only institution in the state’s department of corrections that has no inmate workers to assist in cleaning.
 
The facility has more than 205,590 square feet and ten custodians who are responsible for maintaining the entire institution, including nearly 2,000 inmate cells.
 
The high-quality cleanliness that they strive for is apparent at WSPF, according to a prison spokesperson. In order to maintain these high standards, WSPF uses a KaiVac machine.
 
The KaiVac machine is a no-touch system that allows the custodial staff to effectively and quickly clean areas, minimizing the risk of contamination of staff and inmates.
 
The prison spokesperson also says that the KaiVac Machine allows staff to be in and out of areas more rapidly, decreasing the time inmates are out of cells and increasing the number of cells cleaned in a given amount of time.