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Which cleaning method is hygienically right for you?

Experience from cleaning Healthcare sites shows significant improvements in hygiene can be achieve by implementing the correct cleaning method (e.g. pre-prepared one mop/cloth per room area).

Understanding the risk level of your site is a starting point:
  • Higher Risk: Hotels, Bars, Restaurants, Gyms, Airports. Large turnover of visitors, often from multiple countries and visit even if unwell.
  • Medium Risk: Education, Offices. Lower number of visitors, semi-public and therefore easier to control
It is also important to understand the main types of cleaning methods used by professional cleaners as not all methods work in every site and situation: 

Method

Process

Hygiene Level
Bucket / Bucket & Press
  • Bucket of cleaning solution is made up
  • Cloth/mop is dipped into solution and wrung out
  • Cloth/mop is used to clean surface and returned to bucket
  • Cloth/mop used many times in different areas
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  • Low: Strongest risk of cross contaminating
  • Same cloth/mop used in many areas, passing contaminants between areas
  • Dirt released from cloth/mop after use into bucket contaminating cleaning solution
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    Spray
  • Cloth/mop or surface directly sprayed with solution
  • Surface wiped clean
  • Next area sprayed and wiped clean
  • Cloth/mop mostly used many times in different areas (but can be clean cloth/mop per room)
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  • Medium: intermediate risk of cross contamination
  • Spray bottle ensures no dirt released into cleaning solution used in next area
  • Spray bottle/canister can become contaminated when emptying and refilling
  • Often same cloth/mop used in many areas, passing contaminants between areas
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    Pre- Prepared, washable
  • Multiple clean cloths/mops placed into bucket and dosed with cleaning solution or only cold water
  • Each cloth/mop used to clean one area and then put into laundry
  • A clean cloth/mop used to clean the next area
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  • High: Very low risk of cross contamination
  • A clean cloth/mop used in each area
  • No central solution bucket
  • Reduced or no detergent residue at all, less risk of building a bio-film
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    Single Use
  • Each mop or cloth moistened with detergent solution or only cold water Individually or in a batch
  • Each cloth/mop used to clean one area and then disposed
  • A clean cloth/mop used to clean the next area
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  • Highest: Extremely low risk of cross contamination
  • A clean cloth/mop used in each area
  • No central solution bucket
  • Reduced or no detergent residue at all, less risk of building a bio-film
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    All Vileda Professional experts can advise on how changes to the process used will improve hygiene across your site.

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