As occupants slowly continue to bring people back into buildings, the focus on cleaning for health is at the forefront of everyone's mind. However, commercial cleaning professionals cannot forget that cleaning for health does not only focus on infection control. Attend our upcoming virtual Cleaning Summit and learn about the well-rounded approach to cleaning for health for all occupants including indoor air quality, VOCs, selecting and using green products, and viral contamination.



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Topics Will Include:

  • Learn the importance of the products and PPE used to have a safe and healthy environment
  • Differentiating cleaning for health from cleaning for appearances
  • How audits and verification methods can help build an internal public health culture

Presentations

Cleaning Leaders: Keeping Employees Health in Mind

Ben Walker

Cleaning for health needs to start with making sure the people we manage have a healthy and safe environment. We need to focus on the types of products we are using but all the PPE provided, the ergonomics of equipment, the policies and procedures set up, and the overall self-care of our employees.

A leader is someone who, whether by choice or by necessity, can give themselves entirely to their community. As leaders, we owe it to our crews and colleagues, but most importantly, to ourselves to keep healthy and strong. Everyone's quoting Dr. Berry these days, so I'll share one of my favorite things about health. "Health is a state of complete mental, physical, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity." We clean. We clean for health. Remember that cleaning for health is for you, too.

Operationalizing Cleaning for Health

Stephen Ashkin

Stephen Ashkin
Founder and President
The Ashkin Group LLC.

Cleaning for health (as opposed to cleaning for appearances) has been a discussion point for over 30 years. But far too often, cleaning for health was little more than a marketing slogan. Today however with new technologies and lessons learned from COVID and programs like the LEED Rating System, we can now operationalize cleaning for health and objectively measure and demonstrate improvements beyond cleaning for appearances.

  • Differentiating Cleaning for Health from Cleaning for Appearances.
  • The new LEED protocol to measure surface contamination that provides quantitative, reliable, repeatable and reportable results and the appropriate corrective actions to protect occupant health.
  • Overcoming some of the basic challenges when moving towards Cleaning for Health.

Raise the Bar on Clean — Using Audits and Verification to Achieve Healthier Spaces

Amanda Bakken

Amanda Bakken
Lead Chemist and Disinfection Expert
Ecolab

Cleaning procedures have shifted dramatically over the course of the pandemic to focus on creating healthy spaces. But as people start to come back into buildings, how can they gain confidence in that cleanliness? And as staff turns over, how can you ensure consistency in your cleaning standards? How you communicate cleanliness both internally and externally can be almost as important as what you are doing to create clean and healthy environments.

Ecolab invites you to join our public health expert, Amanda Bakken, to help you deliver confidence in your cleanliness.

In this webinar, our public health expert will cover:

  • How audits and verification methods can help build an internal public health culture
  • How these tools can help instill confidence in the people using your facility
  • Elements to look for in a good verification or audit program

Speakers

Stephen Ashkin

Stephen Ashkin

Founder and President
The Ashkin Group LLC.

Steve Ashkin has worked in the professional cleaning industry since 1981 and on the issue of Green Cleaning since 1990. He is considered the "Father of Green Cleaning" and the leader of the global Green Cleaning Movement.

During the past 30+ years working on Green Cleaning, he has worked with leading product manufacturers, distributors and service providers; leading building owners and property management companies; trade and professional associations; government regulators; labor unions, activists, media and more in his efforts to transform the global cleaning industry. Among his current activities, Steve is working to operationalize Cleaning for Health by defining what it means in practical terms and actions.

Amanda Bakken

Amanda Bakken

Lead Chemist and Disinfection Expert
Ecolab

Amanda develops surface hygiene solutions for a wide range of markets and is a subject matter expert on disinfection products and applications, particularly related to COVID-19. She has a BS in Chemistry and has held roles at Ecolab that include supporting public health and food safety initiatives, quality manufacturing, product development, and commercialization.

Ben Walker

Ben Walker

Director of Business Development
ManageMen, Inc.

Ben Walker is the Director of Business Development for ManageMen, Inc., a leading cleaning industry consultancy specializing in training, transitions, auditing, and educational materials. In addition to his consulting work, Walker is the author of 612 Cleaning Times and Tasks. Ben Walker annually performs progress and baseline audits for several large cleaning operations. He has experience auditing the cleaning program for hundreds of buildings nationwide. He specializes in the (OS1) cleaning process, safety, green, source reduction, public relations, training and cleaning education. His clients include Sandia National Labs, The Boeing Company, University of Texas at Austin, Qualcomm, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, and NISH.

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