"You can find anything on the web". Not quite. There are a few occasions when a search for a startlingly simple piece of informatiion still draws a blank, or a number of "not quite what I was looking for" responses.
We run a
customer facility here, and we have a lady who comes in and cleans. Between times, additional wiping around and cleaning is done by the (growing) staff. Wipe cloths come from our supplier in four packets of four standard colours (red blue green and yellow) so that, it is said "each colour can be used for a different area / job". But
what's the standard colour for what job?. Easy question? Not a chance ... the best I came up with on a web search was a 40 page .pdf document discussing possible standards to be set within a health trust.
I spoke with one of our customers who's in the cleaning supplies business the other day, and he confirmed what I suspected - that there really isn't any set down standard; he suggested that the most common useage would be:
--- red for toilet areas
--- blue for general areas
--- yellow for areas involving food
and that's what we're going to adopt as our standard. Anyone want some green wipe cloths??
update - May 2006 This article was written long before we started the Well House Manor project, and we've now come up with a more formal standard:
which we'll be using at
Well House Manor (written 2005-02-05, updated 2006-06-05)
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