A Career Woman Making a Difference After volunteering at a hospital in California when she was 16, Susan Matt knew she wanted to work in healthcare. Her first paid job was as an environmental services (EVS) technician at a major medical center, a career choice she has...
Maria Castanon had worked for a commercial cleaner at one of the largest aerospace complexes in Dallas, Texas, for 14 years. She held various positions, including as a frontline custodial technician, utility worker, restroom cleaner, and team lead. A little over two...
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...
In 2016, Servicon's Aerospace Portfolio Manager Brandy Owens was looking to change her life. "I was living in Chicago, had just gotten divorced, and the family business I worked for had been bought out by a larger corporation that changed the dynamics," she says. "I...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Guadalupe Aguilar joined Servicon in 2017 as a part-time custodial technician while she was in college. She graduated in 2020 and started working full-time in the commercial cleaning services sector, and in 2021, she moved to the healthcare sector as a hospital...
Mauricio Galvan was working for a dry cleaner. He was bored, wasn't learning anything, and wanted a change. His parents, who had started working for Servicon four years earlier, suggested he apply for a position at Servicon. He did and got the job. It was September...
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...
Nadine Clark started working at 14. By the time she reached her 40s, she had enough points in the former New York system to retire. "'Retire? Retiring is for old people, not me; 'I am too young to retire,'" she recalls thinking. So she didn't. Instead, she put her...
When you’ve been in the cleaning industry for four decades, you are bound to have experienced change. Yet, in the case of Ricardo Garcia, Servicon account supervisor, it’s what has stayed the same that is most impressive. For 40 years Ricardo has worked at a major...
Tamila Bergal came to the United States from Ukraine with an engineering degree. When she was looking for work, someone mentioned she should consider accounting since she possessed math and other related skills. Thinking it was a good idea, she went to school and...
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...
More than half of the contiguous United States was in some form of drought as of August 16, 2022, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor. Most experts expect the trend to continue. Many states, such as California, already have implemented water usage restrictions with...
MONKEYPOX SAFETY INFORMATION (Sourced from CDC, DHS, EPA, CA Department of Health, LA County Department of Health, WHO) Monkeypox Virus (MPXV) is a zoonotic virus (a virus that originates in animals) that belongs to the same group of viruses as the Variola major...
Facility maintenance has changed a lot in recent years. It still calls for ensuring the safety, security, and compliance of facilities. However, as buildings and society become increasingly complex and cleanliness remains in the post-COVID-19 pandemic spotlight,...
What Employees and Providers Need to Know About Monkeypox With over 20,000 cases worldwide, monkeypox has been declared a global health emergency by the World Health Organization, and last week the Biden Administration declared the outbreak a national health...
Massachusetts Department of Public Health officials have confirmed the first U.S. case of monkeypox in a traveler who returned to the states from Canada. The first suspected case was being investigated in California at the time of publication, while 260 cases in 22...
Liz Sanders worked as an assistant director of a childcare network and pre-K teacher for more than 20 years. Yet it wasn’t until four years ago, when she started working as a custodial technician for Servicon, that she felt she had found her true calling. "Everyone in...
There are many areas in a hospital that it is essential for hospital environmental services (EVS) providers to properly maintain. ”One location that may be overlooked is the EVS cleaning services area, where EVS cleaning technicians store, prepare, and reprocess their...
When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, most hospital environmental services (EVS) providers were able to respond with the appropriate cleaning and disinfecting protocols since most EVS technicians are trained in terminal cleaning. However, for many commercial cleaning...