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07/02/07

Cleaning cloths and cross contamination.

Are your cleaners using separate clothes and mops for the kitchen and toilet areas? Ours are.
Category: General
Posted by: sally

Long ago in my University years, I used to work in a fast food restaurant which I will not name for legal reasons.  There were a number of identical cleaning cloths for washing up, etc.  I had not been there long when I realised that the members of staff who cleaned the toilet took a cloth from the kitchen, cleaned the toilet and then brought it back to the kitchen area.  Thus cloths that were used for toilet cleaning were put back in the pile from which staff then took cloths for washing up.  When it was my turn to clean the toilet I took a cloth, cleaned the toilet and left it in the cubicle.  However the cloth soon worked its way back into the pile.   When I suggested different cloths for washing, wiping and toilet cleaning, a colleague accused me of being ‘posh’.

 

How do we avoid cross contamination via cleaning cloths?

Firstly we have a wide selection of different types and colours of cloths, including microfibre cloths and yellow dusters for different purposes.  We use washing/wiping cloths with colour coded edging: red edged cloths for toilet cleaning.  We also have two different sets of mops and buckets to that the kitchen and toilet areas are not cleaned with the same ones.

Lastly and most importantly, we train our staff, assign staff to a particular job and have a very low rate of staff turnover so that everyone knows what is required with regards to issues of hygiene.

 


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