10 Reasons Why You Should Perform Routine Cleaning Inspections - Reason 1: Obtain Good Cleaning Data
In order to make objective and scientific conclusions about a process or activity, we would first need a sufficient amount of good and honest data. This applies to pretty much all industries, including the cleaning industry. However, for the most part, professionals in the cleaning industry have stayed out of data collection. This can be a major hurdle when it comes to quality control processes associated with commercial cleaning. If cleaning contractors or in-house cleaning administrators are not collecting accurate data about how their site is being cleaned, improvement will be nearly impossible.
Wikipedia defines data as “The term data means groups of information that represent the qualitative or quantitative attributes of a variable or set of variables.”
As applied to the cleaning industry and cleaning inspections you can consider the variables as items being cleaned (such as chairs, tables, baseboards, etc) and attributes as good or bad cleaning that is being done to an item. For example, if a chair has not been cleaning fully and contains dust, the chair would be the variable and dust would be an attribute of the chair.One way to obtain relevant and accurate cleaning data is to stick to a routine when it comes to performing cleaning inspections. Performing weekly or monthly quality control inspections will steadily build a great database of information. When the database grows to a large enough size supervisors and managers can begin to rely on the data to point out their weak spots and being making corrections. Over time, this process will turn into a very active quality control program and increase the overall quality of the cleaning results.
