The Critical Role of Classification in Cleaning Protocols Classifying cleanrooms is crucial in establishing the cleaning procedures needed to uphold the strict environmental standards required by several industries, such as biotechnology, electronics manufacturing,...
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Patient Experience & EVS Technicians: How Cleanliness Impacts Healthcare Satisfaction
The patient experience in the healthcare industry goes far beyond receiving medical care. From the standard of care to the setting in which it is delivered, it encompasses all facets of a patient's engagement with the healthcare system. Of all these variables, hygiene...
The Importance of Cleanroom Cleaning in Pharmaceuticals and Biotech
The significance of preserving a sterile environment cannot be emphasized, particularly in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries, which are subject to stringent regulations and extremely stringent standards. Cleanrooms are an extremely important component to...
3 Technologies to Boost Biomanufacturing Cleaning Outcomes
Cleaning biomanufacturing facilities involves more than maintaining cleanrooms to good manufacturing processes (GMP) standards. Of course, cleanrooms are a vital part of the job, and GMP cleaners require specialized and detailed training. But these facilities also...
Benefits of Professional Cleaning for Business Success
The cleanliness and appearance of commercial facilities are crucial in the fast-paced business world because they shape client and staff views and ensure their well-being. Therefore, it is impossible to exaggerate the significance of hiring expert commercial cleaning...
Choosing the Right Commercial Cleaning Company
Keeping a clean and healthy workstation in today's hectic corporate world is important and essential. Selecting the best commercial cleaning firm is a crucial choice for facility managers since it affects customer perception, employee well-being, and the company's...
Training and Verification Key to Reducing Life Sciences Turnover
How Trained GMP Cleaners Can Keep Your Facility Up and Running Life sciences facilities produce valuable research and products that help cure diseases and make the world healthier and safer. They require strict adherence to the client’s standard operating procedures...
All In One: Consolidating GMP and Cleaning Services
Five Benefits of Contracting One Experienced Service Provider for All Your GMP and Office Cleaning Needs By Stacey Wong Life sciences startups that build their businesses gradually—starting with one or two cleanrooms and adding additional research and manufacturing...
Flying High With the Right Aerospace Cleaning Services Partner
5 Suggestions for Hiring a Top-Flight Cleaning Company Choosing the right commercial cleaning services provider is vital for an aerospace facility. In addition to staying in compliance with OSHA and other federal and state legislation and meeting ISO and good...
The Dangers of Tailgating in Aerospace
Why Commercial Cleaning Service Providers Can Fall Prey Tailgating - and we don’t mean the fun kind, such as before a football game or concert—can be a severe security threat to any business. In an aerospace facility, however, it poses great danger to our national...
Insider Threats and National Security
8 Steps to Avoid Insider Threats From Your Aerospace Commercial Cleaning Services Provider Examples of the dangers of security breaches are rampant: Two U.S. Navy sailors based in California are accused of providing sensitive military information to China, including...
Don’t Leave Your Cleaning Up in the Air
How the right commercial cleaning provider can help ensure a safe, compliant aerospace facility Inadequate cleaning of aerospace facilities can have serious consequences: In a Vermont aerospace facility, an explosion caused by dust sent three people to the hospital....
Trained in the Science of Cleaning
5 Tips to Ensure Your Commercial Cleaning Service Can Keep Your Facility Safe Many of you probably heard the story about the custodial worker who unplugged a freezer at a university because it was making an “annoying” noise. He ruined 20 years’ worth of research. The...
Don’t Fall Prey to Greenwashing
4 Tips to Identify If Your EVS or Commercial Cleaning Services Provider Is Truly Green As many of us in the healthcare environmental services (EVS) and commercial cleaning services industry are aware, greenwashing - “The creation or propagation of an unfounded or...
Reducing Medical Waste for the Environment and Bottom Line
How the Right EVS Provider Can Help Reduce Costly Mistakes in Biohazardous and Other Medical Waste Disposal The post-COVID world has brought on many positive health-related changes, from a more intense focus on hand hygiene to an improved understanding of the...
Striving Toward Sustainability
New Technologies Servicon Has Adopted for Our People and the Planet While April is Earth Month, at Servicon, focusing on sustainability and the welfare of our workers, clients, and the environment is a year-long mission. Since our inception, we have recognized the...
Not All GMP Cleaning Services Companies Are Alike
How Servicon Provided the GMP Solutions Instil Bio Needed When a biotech company requires following good manufacturing practices (GMP) to continue vital cancer research, it can’t hire just any commercial cleaning services company. It calls for one with experience and...
Cleanroom Storage Areas Vital to Pharmaceutical GMP Success
As the best commercial cleaning services companies with cleanroom experience know, ensuring the cleanliness and maintenance of cleanroom storage areas is vital to current good manufacturing practices (cGMP) for pharmaceutical companies. Negligence in storage areas can...
Cleanroom Maintenance Success Is in the Air
What Your Commercial Cleaning Services Provider Should Know About Pressure and AirflowWe previously discussed how cleanrooms must be cleaned and their filtration needs. Let’s examine the relationship between pressure and airflow in a cleanroom. A Pressing Matter...
The Facts About Cleanroom Filtration
According to the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) 14644, the standard that regulates cleanrooms, a cleanroom is “a room in which the concentration of airborne particles is controlled and which is constructed and used in a manner to minimize the...
Are Environmental Services (EVS) Hospital Jobs (Finally) Being Considered a Profession?
Those working in hospital housekeeping jobs—or, as they are now referred to, environmental services (EVS) hospital jobs—have always been vital. EVS workers contribute significantly to patient care, and satisfaction and help reduce healthcare-associated infections...
Servicon Vice President Enio Martinez Featured in LA Times
The story of Servicon is the story of our people. Enio Martinez, Servicon’s Executive Vice President and head of Operations, which is the engine of our company, has a personal history everyone should hear. In fact, the Los Angeles Times agreed with our assessment and...
How EVS for Hospitals & EVS for Ambulatory Care Differ
The shift from hospitals to ambulatory care continues for reasons ranging from cost savings to convenience. Ambulatory, or nonemergency, care is provided in outpatient settings such as medical offices and clinics, hospital outpatient departments, outpatient surgery...
Safety Toolkit – Heat Illness Prevention
En español At times, workers may be required to work in hot environments for long periods. When the human body is unable to maintain a normal temperature, heat illness can occur. Heat illness can be very serious and may result in death. It is also important to...