At this time each year, Google searches for gyms spike and membership purchases soar. With the increased footfall that this brings, gym, fitness and leisure facilities cannot afford to be complacent about cleaning. After all, the hygiene and cleanliness of your facility not only protects the health and safety of your members and visitors, but can also impact on its success. In this industry, a customer’s positive impression is essential to enhance the reputation of your brand and business, influencing their decision to return and recommend.

Here are our top five resolutions you’ll want to keep this year, to help keep your leisure facility clean, hygienic and safe:

1. Keep equipment clean:

Studies have found that the surfaces of treadmills, weight machines and other typical gym equipment are teeming with bacteria and other infectious germs.[1] Give customers the opportunity to wipe the equipment before and after their workout with Jangro sanitising wipes.

2. Make it easy for customers and staff to practise hand hygiene:

Reduce the risk of germs spreading within your facility by offering hand sanitising solutions. We supply a choice of dispensers, including popular touch-free models, which are even more hygienic due to the fact that no sweaty hands need to touch them to dispense the product

3. Make sure floors are well-maintained:

Floors in leisure facilities are exposed to high traffic so must be well-maintained. Ensure the correct pad is chosen for the floor type and the required job by checking against Jangro’s Floor Pad Guide, which includes a handy colour coding system for easy identification.

4. Don’t forget about the showers and changing rooms:

As well as ensuring fitness zones are clean and tidy, showers and changing rooms must not be forgotten. Our digital wall chart creator has a tool especially for this area. It allows customers to create their own bespoke charts with the products of their choice, and then streamlines all of the health and safety documentation, product user guides, and training modules – so the customer has everything they need in one place.

5. Invest in staff training for best practice:

Best practice can be accomplished easily with proper training. All Jangro customers and their staff have access to our award-winning online training programme, the Learning Management System  (LMS). It is highly flexible, free to use and has even been accredited by the CPD service, assuring you of its quality and relevance.

Following the above five resolutions will not only result in a sparkling and hygienically clean gym, but will also demonstrate your commitment to the health and wellbeing of your clientele.

For more information, call our friendly advisors on 01204 795 955 or visit www.jangro.net

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/wellness/your-gym-is-teeming-with-invisible-members-germs-heres-how-to-avoid-them/2019/07/26/404bf414-9f4f-11e9-b27f-ed2942f73d70_story.html

Christmas is over for another year, but here at Jangro we are excited to be entering 2020! Not only a new year, but a new decade to welcome – and with it, lots more innovation, excellence and celebrations. Although we can’t give too much away, here’s a teaser of what’s in store this year…

Jubilations!

2020 is going to be a big year for us as we celebrate our 40^th anniversary! Jangro (which, in case you didn’t already know, stands for ‘Janitorial Group’) was founded in 1980 by Bryan Squires, who is now our Honorary Life President. Watch this space for news of our celebrations throughout the year.

A Manchester date

We are excited to announce that once again, we will be exhibiting at The Manchester Cleaning Show. Taking place on 25^th and 26^th March 2020, we can’t wait to welcome visitors to our brand new showstopper stand – stay tuned to our blog for more details soon. It’s always a pleasure to meet people in the industry and the show is a fabulous place to network, do business and talk all things Jangro. If you are planning to attend this year, do stop by our stand to say hello!

New innovation and launches

We are continually innovating and updating what we offer through our group, so watch out for more launches and news throughout the year. First up is an exciting addition to our digital wall charts – once all the finishing touches are in place, you’ll be the first to hear about it!

We are also looking forward to presenting our Virtual Reality platform at the CSSA Innovation showcase on 19^th March. And look out for new courses and updates to our award-winning training platform, the Jangro LMS too. In case you missed it during the December madness, the LMS now has CPD accreditation, meaning that Jangro customers can now be even more sure that the training we offer is relevant, up to date, and of high quality.

A hat trick of awards!

Yes, we are thrilled that Jangro is currently shortlisted for three awards! Our LMS has been shortlisted in the Tomorrow’s Care 2020 awards, whilst our innovative Enviro Water Soluble Sachets, which launched last year, are a finalist in both the Tomorrow’s Cleaning and Tomorrow’s FM awards. Please share your support; click on the links below if you’d like to vote for us:

• Tomorrow’s Care
• Tomorrow’s Cleaning
• Tomorrow’s FM

Fingers crossed!

Wishing all of our customers and suppliers a successful and prosperous year. Remember, all of our subscribers hear everything first – you can sign up here.