New Respect For Janitorial Workers

Though rarely seen, does it surprise you to learn that the Census Bureau tells us that there are more than 70,000 janitorial or maintenance services with more than one million janitors in our country? Janitorial services has been an unchanging business for more than a score of years is now in dramatic change and has become apart of the Green revolution. Most of us have paid scant attention to this industry as the workers come and went in the middle of the night leaving a freshly cleaned office for the daytime workers who show up each morning. It could be said that the janitorial worker is the silent and forgotten segment of the American workforce.

Suddenly, the Green revolution has come of age, and there are new rules, mandates, and expectations that our economy will incorporate the principles of environmentally-friendly practices. But who will implement all these new rules, standards, and practices? They will not happen by rhetoric, force of law, or well-wishing. It will take a newly trained workforce to carry out the duties of making homes, schools, offices, and buildings that have determined to be Green?

There is now a newer and more urgent duty for janitorial services than the traditional sweeping, mopping, and emptying the trash. The new generation of janitors must now concern themselves with new Green products, new Green equipment, and host of new mandates. To achieve to these new standards, janitorial services need more training than how to operate a scrubber or vacuum. They require greater training and certification to do the job right.

These are the custodians of public health at a different level than the medical world. It could be said that the custodians are the first line of defense in protecting the public health. Obviously, the medical world is the last line of defense in protecting our health.

Cleaning and sanitation is the most simple form of janitorial work. Chemical used in the workplace are an important part that dramatically affects all of us who work in buildings. Disease control, allergies and asthma issues, and chronic health issue are now a part of the cleaning equation.

The world will soon realize that the people who "Bring the Green" are the long-forgotten workforce known as the custodians and janitors that we rarely see. I guess it is a recognition long overdue that we see the value that these people bring to our lives. The Green revolution goes from theory to practice in the hands of these hard-working laborers.

Will is cost more? Probably. Is it worth the moderate cost it will take to graduate these workers from simple laborers to trained technicians capable of implementing the Green practices needed to protect our health as well as clean the building. I think these folks deserve the New Respect of co-workers in the promotion of your business success and your health.

About the Author

Green Clean Institute offers Green Clean training and certification for janitorial services. Green Clean is the pressing issue of our generation and this training course is the only federal trademark for the janitorial industry.

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