Childcare Cleaning
In the world of childcare, cleanliness goes beyond hygiene; it serves as a crucial foundation that promotes the health, safety and overall wellbeing of children. Maintaining a clean environment is essential for creating a nurturing space where kids can engage in learning, playtime and development. Brilliant Office Cleaning provides cleaning for numerous childcare centres.
The Importance of Cleaning in Childcare
Key Points to Note in Childcare Cleaning
Selecting Cleaning Products for Childcare Centres
Careful selection of cleaning products is of paramount importance for cleaning childcare centres, in order to safeguard the health and wellbeing of the children. It is important to use eco-friendly and certified cleaning products that are nontoxic, hypoallergenic, and free of harmful elements such as phosphorous. Brilliant Office Cleaning uses only ISO Certified eco-friendly cleaning products in childcare cleaning.
Selecting the Best Cleaning Product for a Toddler’s Room
The toddlers’ room is different to all other rooms when it comes to cleaning. Toddlers often crawl on these floors. For this reason, we do not use chlorite-based cleaning products to mop the floors in the toddler rooms. We use only very light cleaning products that will not be harmful for toddlers.
In order to avoid built-up dirt, we scrub the floors thoroughly without strong chemicals. In this way, we ensure that the floors are continuously clean and safe.
Importantly, we also use safe cleaning agents for wiping surfaces. This applies to all surfaces that are exposed for toddlers to touch, or items that they can put in their mouths. Our cleaning products are perfectly safe for toddlers.
Above all, we provide the necessary training for all our childcare cleaners before deploying them. The correct handling of cleaning chemicals is a key part of this training.
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Qualifications Required for Cleaning Staff in Childcare Settings
Childcare cleaning teams need to have relevant certificates in order to work in childcare settings. Brilliant Office Cleaning employs only cleaners who hold these certificates. In addition, it is very important to ensure that all members of the cleaning team are police cleared. These are key factors we consider when recruiting childcare cleaners.
Important Areas for Cleaning
The cleaning of childcare centres goes beyond activity rooms. It also includes shared spaces, personal hygiene facilities, and food preparation areas. Toilets, sinks and diaper changing stations are common germ hotspots that need disinfection. Kitchens and dining areas must follow food safety guidelines to ensure that surfaces, utensils and equipment are sanitized after each use. Indoor and outdoor play areas require cleaning, with attention to objects frequently touched by children.
Managing Biological Waste
Dealing with waste such as diapers, wipes and bodily fluids is an essential element in childcare cleaning. Proper disposal methods are essential to prevent diseases. Generally, we engage expert biological waste agencies to perform this service, however, our cleaning team also plays an important role in this process. This involves safely handling the biological waste, wearing gloves and face masks, and sanitising the outside of sanitary bins on a regular basis.
Effective Cleaning Strategies
Brilliant Office Cleaning considers various factors when developing cleaning strategies for childcare centres. These strategies include an adaptable approach that caters to the evolving cleaning requirements of childcare centres. Essential elements include developing schedules for regular and deep cleaning. Occupational Health and Safety Plans are also an essential element in these strategies.
Scope of the Childcare Cleaning
Generally, toddler rooms, cot rooms, kinder rooms, pre-kinder rooms, planning rooms, hallways, staircases, kitchen and all toilets (staff, parents and children) are included in the scope of both regular and periodic cleaning.
Regular Cleaning Services
Regular cleaning is important to maintain good hygiene standards. This involves wiping surfaces, vacuuming and mopping floors, disinfecting touch points such as door handles, switches etc. Toys and educational materials used by children should be cleaned regularly to ensure they are germ-free.
The cleaning frequency will depend on the specific requirements and internal structure of each childcare centre. Almost all of our clients have internal cleaning procedures. As such, the frequency of our service will depend on the extent of these internal cleaning procedures and factors. In general, our clients make use of our cleaning services from three to five days per week.
Selecting the Regular Cleaning Frequency
There are many factors to consider when selecting the right cleaning frequency for a childcare centre. Below are some of these factors:
- Number of children enrolled
- The centre-specific programmes and activities conducted
- The environment in which the centre is located
- The scope and extent of the internal cleaning procedures conducted
- The industry specific hygiene regulatory requirements
Deep Cleaning Services
Essentially, deep cleaning targets areas not covered by routine cleaning. This includes carpet steam cleaning, window washing, vent and filter cleaning for air quality, deep toilet cleaning, scrubbing of hard floors, etc. The objective of deep cleaning is to ensure that built-up dust and dirt are removed on a regular basis, which is important for ensuring that the environment is continuously clean.
Special Requirements of Childcare Cleaning
Childcare cleaning has many differences compared to other cleaning services. Specifically, childcare cleaning involves children. This means that there are a number of important precautions necessary for this type of cleaning.
In addition, it should be noted that parents continually visit childcare centres to drop-off and pick up their children. This also impacts the level of occupational health and safety requirements of childcare cleaning.
Air quality in childcare centres
Maintaining air quality is essential for creating a safe environment in childcare facilities. Poor ventilation can lead to the buildup of pollutants, allergens and airborne pathogens. Cleaning air ventilations on a regular basis, maintaining air purifiers, etc., help to achieve this objective.
Effective Communication
It is essential to have continuous communication between the childcare centre management and the commercial cleaning team. This is particularly important when implementing new cleaning procedures, and to ensure the effectiveness of the current cleaning schedule.
Re-arranging the furniture and other items after the cleaning
Childcare centres arrange furniture and other items in a manner that is suitable for the centre. After cleaning, our cleaners always ensure the correct arrangement of furniture and other items in the childcare centre. This saves our clients a significant amount of time.
Cleaning Quality Controls
Brilliant Office Cleaning uses strict quality control procedures to deliver high-quality childcare cleaning services. This quality control process has three main elements:
Activity Monitoring System
Our activity monitoring system carefully monitors the activity of our cleaners. This is the first step in the quality control process. The system is accessed by experienced supervisors.
Cleaning Quality Audits
Experienced inspectors perform quality audits during all stages of the childcare cleaning process. The audits are performed using industry-leading auditing software. The agreed scope of the cleaning work is entered into this software. Our cleaning quality auditors carefully check each element in the scope. An audit report is sent to the supervisor in charge of the task, and the supervisor ensures that the cleaning team addresses any issues in the report.
Feedback
Obtaining the feedback is the last step of the quality control process. We make sure that our clients are 100% satisfied with the quality of our childcare cleaning.
Cleaning Compliance Monitoring
Monitoring compliance is a vital part of the childcare cleaning process. Brilliant Office Cleaning fully complies with all cleaning industry regulations. Our compliance management has proven to be highly effective. It includes, but is not limited to, the following essential elements:
- Compliance with labour hire regulations
- ISO certified processes
- $20 million public liability insurance
- Compliance with Workcover regulations.
Occupational Health and Safety
Occupational health and safety is of paramount importance for childcare cleaning. We have implemented an effective OH&S system to ensure that safety measures are in place for our childcare cleaning service. This consists of essential safety procedures, such as keeping a first-aid box onsite, employing sign boards and keeping MSDS onsite.
Our Compliance
Brilliant Office Cleaning comply with all the legal and regulatory requirements applicable for the cleaning industry.
