They Will Say ANYTHING!

by Michael Matheron · December 13, 2011

602 253 0656
522 W. Roosevelt, Phoenix, AZ 85003

It’s a very sobering feeling to be up in space and realize that one’s safety factor was determined by the lowest bidder on a government contract.

Alan Shepard

Our insignificance is often the cause of our safety.

Aesop

Cleaning for Health, Safety, and Security

There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.

James Thurber

Council’s ladder ban sparks £1.4million bill to change light bulbs

Daily Mirror 2/02/2011

COUNCIL bright sparks banned maintenance workers from using ladders – then got a blinding £1.4million bill for changing dud lightbulbs.

Kier Stoke repairs more than 20,000 homes and over 500 municipal buildings for Stoke-on-Trent’s city council.

But since the council banned ladders on health and safety grounds, the contractor needs to erect scaffolding for even simple, routine tasks. (more)

They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

Benjamin Franklin

Your own safety is at stake when your neighbor’s wall is ablaze.

Horace

There is no “slippery slope” toward loss of liberties, only a long staircase where each step downward must first be tolerated by the American people and their leaders.

Alan K. Simpson

A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.

Mark Twain

American consumers have no problem with carcinogens, but they will not purchase any product, including floor wax, that has fat in it.

Dave Barry

Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.

Ogden Nash

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Keep your facility safe and OSHA compliant
	• Crews trained & monitored in OSHA compliance; • MSDS book, covering all the cleaning chemicals we use, kept in your janitor closet; • non-skid Ecolab floor finish to limit slip/fall liability; • non-toxic and environmentally responsible cleaning chemicals from Diversey; • crews safety trained through Building Service Contractors Association, Diversey, and Ecolab; • periodic safety inspections; • no reportable on-the-job injuries since 1997

Limit “Slip and Fall” Liability
We feature Ecolab’s™ family of hard floor care chemicals, including their non-skid floor finish. Our full service program includes burnishing and refinishing resilient tile floors, certainly to enhance the appearance and extend their useful life, but more importantly because properly maintained floor finish is more effectively cleaned and is more slip-resistant than is bare tile. We rely on Ecolab’s “Management of Risk Exposure” (M. O. R. E.) program, including common-sense tips on prevention and response, to provide us and our customers the benefits of Ecolab’s broad experience with slip and fall accidents. You may be interested in downloading a copy of Ecolab’s Slip & Fall. Your CBN representative will be happy to go over Safety survey the results with you, offering suggestions of how to reduce your exposure to liability. Should you have a slip & fall incident at your facility, Ecolab has made available a Slip & Fall, which may help to limit liability by having accident report form a clear record of the incident. You may also link to Floor; a paper from Ecolab explaining static coefficient Safety Technical Data of friction (SCOF) and how it relates to floor safety and liability.

Chemical Safety
Diversey products (formerly Johnson Wax Professional)
	We feature Diversey janitorial chemicals: • Environmentally and user friendly; generally few VOCs. • Excellent training and safety material. • Sourcing chemicals from a single manufacturer avoids the chance of unexpected reactions between chemicals. • The Diversey “tech team” is available 24/7 for expert technical and safety advice.
Training in Safety
	Using training materials from Diversey and the Building, we train our Service Contractor’s Ass’n Int. crews in: • Chemical safety procedures • Proper chemical disposal • General job safety • OSHA guidelines • Use of protective gear • Blood-borne pathpgen procedures
OSHA compliant
	As part of our periodic quality inspections, we check janitor closets to ensure compliance with OSHA standards on chemical labeling, cleanliness and general safety. As required by federal law, we provide you an MSDS covering all the chemicals we use, so if an accident ever book occurs, or OSHA pays you a visit, you will have the necessary safety information on hand to protect your employees and yourself. CBN’s HazCom program details a wide range of possible scenarios, including chemical labeling, usage, and handling rules and regs, MSDS requirements, all the way through procedures for handling blood borne pathogens.
For your protection:
	No aerosols Squirt bottles and pump sprayers use no propellant; less chemical becomes airborne.
	No bleach or ammonia Chlorine bleach and ammonia are each noxious of themselves; combined, they’re extremely poisonous.
	No scouring powder Scouring powders are high pH detergents and ground pumice, often with bleach. Not good to breathe.
	Low VOCs (Volatile Organic Compounds) Eye, nose, and throat irritation, headaches, loss of coordination, nausea, and damage to liver, kidney, and central nervous system are among the noted health effects of VOC exposure. Many cause cancer in animals, some in humans.

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Take a Look! For an enlightening experience, take a peek inside your janitor’s closet.
That bottle of blue liquid (maybe it’s window cleaner?) without a factory label, even that mop bucket full of last night’s chemical brew, are “unlabeled chemical containers” – just waiting for an on-the-job accident, or for an OSHA fine to be levied. Some other things to look for while you’re in there: a dirty dust mop, an old-fashioned poorly filtered vacuum, and feather dusters – equipment that will negatively impact your Indoor Air Quality by raising dust rather than removing it!
Training Program
Thorough introductory class covering:
	OSHA regulations, Chemical Safety films by Diversey “Safety in the workplace” by BSCAI Office cleaning procedures, including efficiency pointers
Continuation of training (in the field)
	With Operations Manager; keying on CBN/ Diversey procedures and proper use of chemicals, while the trainee is being familiarized with his assigned route.
Monthly refreshers
	Monthly hands-on refreshers with Operations Manager and Customer Service Specialist, keying on any deficiencies identified by database search of all client communications and recent inspections of the given crew’s facilities.
CBN’s training card system
	A simple, color-coded, step-by-step system for training personnel in safe and effective cleaning procedures using Diversey chemicals featured by CBN