One of the benefits of hiring a commercial janitorial service is the ability to use their specialty cleaning services. What are specialty cleaning services? Specialty cleaning services are the cleaning or maintenance done to an area that does not see or need daily upkeep or are unique areas that require special attention when cleaned. However, I know this sounds a lot like Deep Cleaning Services, but I can assure you it’s not! Deep cleaning is more for general, high traffic areas. Specialty cleaning services involve a wide range of services. Let’s dive into them!
Types of Specialty Cleaning Services
- Acoustical Ceiling Cleaning
- Blind cleaning
- Carpet Care
- Clean room services
- Computer room cleaning
- Construction clean up
- Emergency services
- Escalator cleaning
- Building Maintenance (painting, repair, tile replacement, etc.)
- HVAC Ductwork Cleaning and Robotic Inspection
- Hard surface floor care
- Recycling services
- Cleaning of High Tech Manufacturing Equipment
- Laboratory Cleaning and Decontamination
- Specialty Services as defined by the customer
Why Are These Services a Specialty?
These services are a specialty because they require trained professionals to complete. Staff can be injured or damage to your facility could occur if these types of services were done by untrained cleaners.
How Do You Know If You Are Getting Trained Cleaners?
1. OSHA
First, to begin you should ask the cleaning company prior to their start if they will have OSHA Competent employees working at your location. Ultimately, you’re looking for cleaners who have completed OSHA Outreach Training. This can be either the 10 or 30-hour training. Ideally, you would like employees to have both pieces of training completed. But as long as they have at least one completed, that should be acceptable.
2. NCCI MOD Rate
Next, you will want to find out the company’s NCCI workers comp Mod. Rate. To explain, according to Peoria – “A MOD rate contributes to how much companies pay each month in workers’ compensation premiums.” A 1.0 or below is considered good. The Mod Rate is important to know because it essentially lets you know how safe the employees are. Companies with a low MOD Rate have fewer workers comp claims, thus, less injured employees. For the most part, specialty cleaning can be dangerous. Because of this, you want to make sure you will get the cleaning done safely.
3. Request a Refrence
Finally, it’s not uncommon for cleaning companies to be asked to provide references. Especially in regards to specialty cleaning. By all means, ask the company to provide you with a reference for a similar job. This is to be sure they have the experience and were previously successful.
In Conclusion – Specialty Cleaning Services
Specialty Cleaning Services include areas where you don’t need to call a certified abatement contractor, but you need to have a contractor that has the knowledge that goes way beyond what a typical Janitorial Services company has. Advantage Maintenance Inc. has OSHA 30 and OSHA 10 certified employees on staff and has maintained an NCCI workers comp Mod. Rate of less than .75 since 1990.