Behind-the-scenes In Discover cleaning best practices used during these expansive events. By: Jan Matthews SOCHI AND LONDON A At the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games, specta-tors filled the stands to watch the best of the best in winter sports. While the fans cheered for their favorite ath-letes and took in all the fun and excitement of the Olympic Games, another Olympic Games-sized event was happening behind-the-scenes involv-ing countless cleaning crews’ hard work and ded-ication to cleanliness. In fact, as the official supplier of cleaning products for the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games, cleaning crews used P&G Professional products to clean up after more than 5 million people, clean more than 2 million square feet of Jan Matthews is a P&G Professional Advisory Council member, consultant for the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games and former head of Catering, Cleaning and Waste for the London 2012 Olympic Games. To learn more about Matthews and her lessons learned from The Olympics, check out www.PGPro.com/Olympics. surfaces and wash more than 30,000 linens each and every day. A cleaning effort of this magnitude takes months of planning and preparation to deliver the highest standard of clean. As a consultant for the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games and the former head of Catering, Cleaning and Waste for the London 2012 Olym-pic Games, I had the privilege of being involved in planning and implementing a cleaning pro-gram for the overall success of these events, and through this learned many lessons in cleaning and catering that can apply to any facility or industry, whether it’s an event set on the backdrop of a for more info Visit www.cmmonline.com and type in search keyword: Cleaning Program . For more information on related products, visit www.cmmonline.com , select DIRECTORY from the main navigation bar, and enter keyword: Olympics . Having a well thought out and planned program in Sochi helped workers handle and excel at cleaning for the large event. 26 CM/Cleaning & Maintenance Management ® July 2014
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