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BSC's throughout the country who are certified in Green Housekeeping (GH) will benefit enormously from this program.
While an overall strategy using an integrated approach with precise plans and implementation procedures will generate the greatest returns; even small improvements can generate impressive results.
The logic behind employing a Certified Green Housekeeper (CGH) is strengthened by the fact that the whole process does not have to cost more then the national average for cleaning services in Canada. The CGH benefits with better revenues, more stable accounts and clientele who better understand the value of their services.
The Benefits to the Building Service Contractor (BSC) are:
- The program improves your revenues.
- The program increases employee productivity.
- The program improves your marketing perception.
- The program reduces your employee turnover.
- The program elevates you above non-certified BSC's.
- The program gets you account referrals.
- The program adds stability to your present and future accounts.
- The program reduces your external Liability within the facilities you clean.
- The program reduces your internal Liability through the reduction of chemical toxicity and exposure to your staff.
- The program adds credibility to you the BSC.
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There's no question that using the Green Housekeeping program is good for business.
Green Housekeeping is a comprehensive building management program that is meant to provide improved health and safety, reduce liability issues, increase productivity, and improve indoor air quality in every building that adopts it's tenets. Cleaning practices and building management are refocused so that the Building Service Contractor cleans primarily for health and environmental benefit.
Whether you are maintaining a new, exsisting or renovated building the custodial operations and maintenance will have an enormous impact on the success of a Green Building. Once the building has come to equilibrium, materials of construction have off-gassed and the HVAC system has been balanced, the single greatest controllable impact on the Green Building environment will be housekeeping and maintenance.
Problems such as sick building syndrome, building related illness and legionnaires disease are just some of the headline grabbing problems significantly impacted, and in many cases directly resulting from poor housekeeping and maintenance. The Green Building Program's benefits can reduce the risk of building related sickness and liabilities tremendously.
These benefits are:
- Improved Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) through considerably less Volatile Organic Compounds (VOC's)
- A healthier workplace due to improved IAQ
- Improved, consistent aesthetics
- Reduced long-term maintenance costs
- Improved tenancy rate
- Improved marketability and credibility
- Customizable levels of cleanliness
- Consistent level of health
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Success as a building owner manager in the new millennium requires meeting the challenge resulting from rapidly changing demands of increasing complexity. These demands include the physical structure itself, plus the demands of tenants, liability and legal issues, vacancy/occupancy rates, changing compliance and regulatory requirements, and more. The Green Housekeeping program was designed to create and maintain a healthier building environment as well as protect the building and it's contents. Not only can the appropriate Green Building methods help protect assets, but it can additionally be used for a marketable and profitable advantage.
The benefits include:
- Improved productivity and attendance leading to improved employee moral
- Reduced liability through highly trained staff/Building Service Contractor's (BSC's) using better products and cleaning/maintenance techniques
- Improved indoor air quality through less Volatile Organic Compounds (VOC's)
- Improved marketability and credability
- Reduced overhead costs in the long term due to accumulative effects of these benefits
- You gain a tremendous resource of knowledge through the support of a Certified Green Housekeeping Professional (CGHP)
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