Did you know: Elementary students contract 8-10 cold flu cases each school year? More than 20 percent of students in high school & 14 percent of middle school students are chronically absent? Student absences can lead to higher instances of dropouts? Cold and flu viruses can live on surfaces anywhere from a few seconds to 48 hours? What is the start of all these? A Dirty School. In K-12 education facilities, it is easy for germs to be transmitted when students touch a contaminated surface and then touch their eyes, nose or mouth. Since effective cleaning helps in improving student attendance and performance result, this can be achieved by using the ISSA Clean Standard. The Clean Standard uses the philosophy “Clean, Measure, Monitor” and emphasizes on high-performance cleaning for institutional and commercial facilities. It helps customers understand ‘why we clean’ by providing a platform for the connection between cleaning, health, and employee productivity and performance. The Clean Standard uses ATP Testing to determine whether a facility is truly clean and discourages the assessment of cleanliness in a facility through visual inspection. The ISSA Clean Standard works in cohort with the ISSA Cleaning Industry Management Standard (CIMS) and CIMS-Green Building criteria to help ensure that building service contractors understand all aspects of management and operations. Premium Maintenance Services can help your facility meets these standards as we move towards our CIMS-GB certification. In addition to implementing the ISSA Clean Standard into our cleaning services and standards, Premium Maintenance Services provides effective facility maintenance for k-12 facilities, commercial and institutional facilities with a cleaning team, equipment, tools and solutions that match the specific needs of your facility. Give your school a way to measure cleanliness, protect staff and student health, and improve academic performance by hiring a cleaning company that uses the ISSA Clean Standard not only as a guideline to demonstrate the effectiveness of products, processes and systems but also as an internal training program for all employees to ensure that products are being used, systems are being implemented correctly and workers are performing their tasks as expected. Read More: Janitorial Services Oakville, Janitorial Services Mississauga, Janitorial Services Vaughan , Janitorial Services Burlington