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Housekeeping

Industrial Housekeeping is more than just sweeping the floor; it includes other factors such as orderliness and the proper arrangement of materials.

           

Practicing good housekeeping eliminates accidents and fire hazards, saves energy, improves space management, minimizes material inventories, helps control property damage, encourages better working habits and reduces the number of janitorial clean-ups.Cutting the number of accidents attributable to poor housekeeping practices is good business. Employees who are properly trained in industrial housekeeping will create a more comfortable and productive work environment. This series of Outlines summarize all of this plus corporate legal obligations and highlights additional benefits workers enjoy .

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Housekeeping, Work keeping, WORTHKEEPING?

The answer, in this excellent dissertation on the benefits of cleanliness, is “YES”.

The Outline includes numerous safety reasons related to continual clean-ups in the workplace, together with tools and equipment housekeeping rules.

There's a rule most of us were taught in kindergarten--clean up after yourself.

It is still true, but now it is the law.

#195
 

“A Clean And Tidy Workplace Is A Safe Workplace”

 

 

#12
Also Available in French and Spanish

“For a Safe Workplace Tidy Up as You Go”

The stiffest test here is whether an employee will participate.

"Housekeeping? That's not my job. Carrying out the garbage is for janitors."

But that's not what we are talking about here.

Good Housekeeping is an integral part of the work process to help greater productivity and job security. Now that's something employees will understand!

#151
 

“Take housekeeping serious.it reduces workplace hazards.”

For openers this Outline pokes fun at serious "horseplay" infractions. Then "Housekeeping and the Law" turns serious citing many OSHA rules that, if broken, can result in fines.

Rounding out the topic it catalogues hazards that a reliability engineer would look for when evaluating a company's housekeeping practices.

Is your company in violation?

#102
Also available in French and Spanish

“Good housekeeping makes every task safer.”

Rudyard Kipling wrote the famous poem "IF", with the opening lines:

If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you...

The golden rule of Housekeeping included here also uses the word "If" numerous times and by following this rule, no one can blame you. Learn Why.

#52
Also Available in French

“A neat and tidy workplace is a safe workplace.”

A clean, organized place is usually a safe place.

Besides offering examples of shoddy housekeeping practices this topic challenges employees to point out where, in their own workplace, better housekeeping is needed.

Companies provide tools and equipment to accomplish this.

Do workers know where they are and what they're for? Help them find out.

 
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