CM/Spotlight: Restroom Care Green Restroom Cleaning: By: Pat McClure SAFER Sustainability Cleaning restrooms within LEED guidelines presents unique challenges. Pat McClure is the owner/presi-dent of HLH Systems, a business and industry cleaning consult-ing company headquartered in Dublin, Ohio. McClure has over 30 years’ technical, administra-tive and consulting experience and was a consultant to the tele-communications industry work-ing in areas of human resources, information technology, pro-curement and many others. McClure is a CIMS-accredited assessor and a participant in first group of candidates certi-fied to administer the Cleaning Industry Management Standard. A LEED Accredited Professional (AP), McClure is a member of the International Facility Managers Association (IFMA) and an adjunct faculty member at Columbus State Community College assisting in business and industry training services. For more information, visit www.HLHSystems.com. B Business thought leaders like Peter Senge tell us that today’s successful organizations strive not just for profitability but also sustainability — meaning wisely using and re-using resources, as well as minimizing waste and negative environ-mental impacts. Janitorial practices and procedures that protect personal health and the environment are great examples of this trend. And, no part of your facility should be greener or cleaner than the restrooms. Green restroom cleaning starts by developing strategies for purchasing products that do not harm the environment, reducing waste, maximiz-ing safety systems, improving processes and measuring the results. However, before you launch your green team, it’s a good idea to familiarize yourself with some essential concepts. A successful program includes more than appropriate chemical and equipment choices. It also calls for policies, procedures, training and shared-responsibility efforts. ers and operators to consistently measure opera-tions, improvements and maintenance. ISSA has developed a cleaning procedure certi-fication called the Cleaning Industry Management Standard (CIMS), which aims to help service pro-viders use general cleaning best practices. The CIMS program also includes a Green Building (GB) option that was tailored to meet the green cleaning requirements of the LEED-EB: O&M certification system. The American National Standards Institute (ANSI) accredited standard development entity certifies hundreds of thousands of products using for more info Visit www.cmmonline.com and type in search keyword: LEED . For more information on related products, visit www.cmmonline.com , select SUPPLIER SEARCH from the main navigation bar, and enter keyword: Restroom Cleaning . Thanks to a number of leading industry associations, your green program need not start from scratch. The U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) devel-oped the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) for Existing Buildings: Operations & Maintenance (EB: O&M) rating system, which sets out to achieve the highest operational efficiencies with the least environmental impact. LEED-EB: O&M has emerged as a recognized, performance-based benchmark for building own-Spray-and-vacuum or spray-and-squeegee sys-tems eliminate some of the necessary steps to hygienically clean restrooms. 24 CM/Cleaning & Maintenance Management ® • September 2011 Image courtesy of Kaivac Inc. Step One: The Proverbial Wheel Exists
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