The New Generation Of Janitorial Technicians

Recent statistics from the Census Bureau reports that there are now over one million janitorial workers and over 70,000 janitorial workers in the U.S. For more than twenty years, the janitorial services of our country have been relatively unchanged. They are now a vital part of the Green revolution.

Few have noticed these faithful workers who come and go in the middle of the night leaving a clean building for the daytime workers who show up each at 9 am. The janitors that provide this service are often the forgotten and neglected workers in any business. Suddenly, the Green revolution has come of age, and there are new rules, mandates, and expectations that our economy will incorporate the principles of environmentally-friendly practices. But who will implement all these new rules, standards, and practices? They will not happen by rhetoric, force of law, or well-wishing. It will take a newly trained workforce to carry out the duties of making homes, schools, offices, and buildings that have determined to be Green? The janitorial workers have new and more lofty expectations that far exceed the traditional duties of sweeping, dusting, and dumping the trash.

These janitors must now understand the concepts of new equipment, new chemicals, and new practices that are Green options. To move up to these new practices, janitors need more training than how to operate a vacuum or clean a toilet bowl. They need certifiable training and guidance in Green practices. These are the custodians of public health at a different level than the medical world. It could be said that the custodians are the first line of defense in protecting the public health.

Obviously, the medical world is the last line of defense in protecting our health. Cleaning and sanitation is the most simple form of janitorial work. Chemical used in the workplace are an important part that dramatically affects all of us who work in buildings. Disease control, allergies and asthma issues, and chronic health issue are now a part of the cleaning equation. The world will soon realize that the people who "Bring the Green" are the long-forgotten workforce known as the custodians and janitors that we rarely see.

I guess it is a recognition long overdue that we see the value that these people bring to our lives. The Green revolution goes from theory to practice in the hands of these hard-working laborers. Will is cost more? Probably.

Is it worth the moderate cost it will take to graduate these workers from simple laborers to trained technicians capable of implementing the Green practices needed to protect our health as well as clean the building. I think these folks deserve the New Respect of co-workers in the promotion of your business success and your health.

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