Cleaning with colours

Hello there cleaning friends and welcome back! This week I’m here to guide you through the sometimes confusing colour-coding systems used in the workplace and how you may be able to adapt them for your workplace as well as how to incorporate them into your daily cleaning regime.

I will help you understand the importance of colour-coding so you can appreciate how this system effectively contributes to the prevention of infection, creating a safer worker environment for not only yourself but others around you.

Easy as a,b,c…

Even though it’s not mandatory and there are no set rules, I advise you do implement a scheme to make controlling germs and bugs at work that little bit easier.

To make life easy for you, the cleaning industry kindly developed a widely used colour-coding system for all of your cleaning products and equipment, including popular items such as mops and brushes that should be used in the different areas identified by various colours.

These four colours are commonly used for this method. Here is some information on how and where they should be used:

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Don’t worry if these aren’t the colours used in your workplace, you may have adopted another system that includes different colours. This is absolutely fine as long as the colour codes are strictly adhered to at all times.

Follow suit

It may be difficult at times but ideally equipment within different areas should also be suitably colour coded.

Here at Jangro we make and distribute all of the relevant equipment you could possibly need for your cleaning regime.

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Ideally all your equipment you use to clean a particular area should be stored within that designated area.

Is your kit clean?

It defeats the object if you’re cleaning with a dirty product, so make sure you take just as much time in cleaning your equipment as you would with cleaning your workplace.

It’s important that if you are cleaning more than one area, gloves should be worn and changed when moving areas to ensure equipment isn’t contaminated.

I’ve created a little guide to give you peace of mind when cleaning your kit.

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I’d be interested in hearing what colour-coding systems you have adapted in your workplace to actively prevent infection.

Perhaps you use the same colours as above but for different areas or use a completely different range of colours. I’d love to hear about it on my social media pages.

https://www.facebook.com/JangroLtd

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