Miami Green Janitor…Your Solution for Environmentally Preferable Cleaning


Our best defense against disease is a strong immune system. This fact brings the necessity of lower toxicity cleaning chemicals into full focus. Daily exposure to chemicals with higher toxicity overburdens the body and weakens the immune system, making it more difficult to fight off viral infections.  
This is especially important for the people cleaning. Custodial workers and Contract Cleaners face a greater risk, especially if their immune systems are being constantly weakened by higher toxicity cleaning chemicals. Children and the elderly are also more susceptible and should only be exposed to higher toxicity chemicals when absolutely necessary. The best cleaning approach is to get back to basics. Clean well and often with low toxicity cleaning chemicals, preferably those with sanitizer and virucidal claims.
Cleaning will physically remove virtually all viruses from any hard surface. Then, use your disinfectant on all pre-cleaned disease transfer points such as doorknobs and faucet handles.  
More Tips for Staying Healthy
Outbreaks of viruses like the swine flu remind us that we cannot clean our way out of disease. Getting rid of disease takes a complete approach that not only works to remove disease-causing pathogens from surfaces, but also educates people on how to keep their immune systems strong and capable of fighting disease when exposed.  Additionally, a healthy workforce is important to all of us. Here are some important tips to share with your employees that can help keep them healthy:
- Get plenty of rest – hard to do with the demands of modern life, but 7 to 8 hours of sleep on a regular basis will do wonders for your immune system
o Avoid working your people on double shifts – exhaustion will open them
up to infection
o Send workers home at first signs of being sick – the occasional worker
taking advantage of this is less costly than 50% of your work force coming
down with the flu!
- Wash your hands frequently and thoroughly
- Stay physically active – exercise heats up your body and blood acting as a sort of
cleansing process, flushing out harmful pathogens
- Drink plenty of fluids at all times, not just when sick
- Eat nutritious food
- Avoid close contact with people who are sick