For those who manage or are a part of a commercial cleaning team, understanding the nuances of selecting and utilizing chemicals is not just a matter of cleanliness; it’s a critical component for maintaining safety, efficiency, and cost-effectiveness. From avoiding potential personnel and guest injuries to ensuring optimal cleaning outcomes, the meticulous choice and proper application of cleaning agents are paramount.
One of the most common examples of chemical misuse is improper dilution, which is likely to occur when diluting chemicals by hand. Chemicals that have been under-diluted have higher concentrations of their active ingredient. Under-diluted chemicals pose health risks to workers and increase the likelihood of surface damage. Products may also become ineffective, requiring more time and effort to clean and disinfect properly.
On the other hand, over-diluted chemicals have lower concentrations of the chemical’s active ingredients, which can be just as costly. These weakened chemicals are less effective, so staff must perform the task multiple times to ensure proper cleaning or disinfecting. There are also increased safety risks, such as allowing the continued spread of germs, leading to increased workplace illnesses.
Diluting chemicals by hand can pose other safety risks for your employees. It exposes workers to concentrated products, which can cause chemical burns. If the chemicals are accidentally ingested, they can cause even more damage to an employee’s health.
Additional ways to mishandle chemicals include using the wrong chemical, mixing chemicals, or storing them improperly. All of these can prove very costly by wasting time and product and potentially resulting in workplace safety issues.
So, how do you ensure that your chemicals are safe and cost-effectively stored? That’s where our Environmental Service Program comes in.
What is the Environmental Service Program?
Imperial Dade’s Environmental Service Program is a comprehensive chemical management program that services all areas of your facility to ensure proper chemical use. It features a full line of dishwashing and laundry products and equipment, housekeeping dispensers and accessories, and chemical products.
The program is designed to help optimize your operational efficiencies and increase cost savings. It does this by providing chemical dispensers and equipment to ensure proper dilution and cost-effective chemicals with clear instructions to ensure proper use.
Who would benefit from the ESP Program?
The Environmental Service Program is designed to help any facility with warewash, laundry, or other significant chemical needs. This would include:
- Restaurants
- Hotels
- Food Packers and Food Processors
- Healthcare Facilities
- Government Facilities
- Office Buildings
How Does the Environmental Service Program Work?
Customized to meet your needs, the Environmental Service Program installs chemical equipment and dispensers as needed throughout your facility and recommends the appropriate chemicals.
This chemical management program starts with a free evaluation of your facility to determine your needs. Then, our Specialists make recommendations for equipment, dispenser installation, and chemical products.
Once you decide how to proceed with our recommendations, our service technicians will install your equipment and dispensers. They will be available after installation to ensure that your equipment receives its regular maintenance and provide 24/7 emergency service when needed.
Step 1: Determining Your Chemical Needs
Every facility has unique chemical needs, and our team will be able to evaluate and provide recommendations that are best suited to your facility. Our chemical management program considers the following:
- Warewashing
- Laundry
- Kitchen: General Cleaning
- Kitchen: 3-Compartment Sink
- Housekeeping
Warewashing
Your facility may have a high-temperature dish machine or a low-temperature dish machine. A high-temperature dish machine uses superheated water to sanitize the dishes, while a low-temperature dish machine uses a chemical sanitizer. As such, your low-temperature dish machine will require an additional chemical that your high-temperature dish machine does not.
We have a complete line of Victoria Bay chemicals and dispensers designed for low- and high-temperature dish machines.
Laundry
If your facility has laundry, our laundry programs provide a complete laundry cleaning experience. It includes a controlled chemical dispensing system alongside a full range of laundry chemicals, including effective detergents and stain-removal products.
Kitchen: General Cleaning
For general kitchen cleaning, we have a full line of chemicals to help you clean all areas of the kitchen. The line includes food-safe sanitizers, cleaners, degreasers, and drain maintainers.
All of these chemicals will help keep your kitchen clean and safe.
Kitchen: 3-Compartment Sink
If you have a 3-compartment sink, you must follow proper procedures to maintain compliance with health and safety standards and regulations. We offer a complete program to take the guesswork out of sanitizing.
Our staff can install specialized dispensing equipment and ensure you have the proper chemicals to keep your sink up to code.
Housekeeping
The Victoria Bay chemical management system has two features to help make it easier for your housekeeping staff to dilute chemicals and use them properly.
- Easy Dilution System
- PLUS Label System
Both systems are easy-to-use and help create cost-savings by reducing wasted product and time.
Easy Dilution System (EDS)
The Easy Dilution System (EDS) is the market’s most effortless dilution control system. This system removes the need for a separate dilution control system to be installed, as each bottle comes out of the box with a portable dilution control head.
A tamper-proof system, these products eliminate mistakes by providing accurate measuring every time.
The chemical dilution system will ensure the proper dilution level of each chemical concentrate. Each chemical container also provides bilingual instructions on how to use them. The containers are also color-coded to help staff identify the chemical they are using more easily.
PLUS Label System
Color coding isn’t the only feature of chemical labels. The PLUS label system used on our Victoria Bay chemicals makes identifying and properly using each chemical simple.
Each chemical is identified in large writing with its name and usage at the top of the label. Beneath the name, each product details the steps needed to utilize the product properly.
Each step is numbered to indicate the order of the steps. The label then has different ways for your staff member to understand each step in the process. An icon next to each number indicates what they should do. There is also a descriptor beside each icon to indicate what they should do. These descriptors are available in multiple languages.
The PLUS label system can help save you money by keeping safety top of mind in using personal protective equipment, preventing wasted time and product by ensuring proper chemical use, and shortening staff training time.
The PLUS label system is a standard feature of our Victoria Bay chemicals.
When making recommendations for your facility, our team will consider the most appropriate chemical dispensers and equipment and your facility’s specific chemical needs.
Step 2: Equipment Recommendation and Installation
After you review our recommendations, our team will be able to install the dispensers and equipment for these programs.
Most of our dispensing equipment can be installed at no charge. Our service technicians will assist you in maintaining your dispensers and equipment.
Step 3: Continued Service
Our service technicians will perform scheduled maintenance on your dispensers and equipment to ensure they operate optimally.
If you have any issues between service calls, our technicians can perform check-ups as needed. We also offer emergency technical service 24/7.
Benefits of the program
There are several benefits of the program, including:
- Cost Savings
- Increased Safety
- Better Results
Cost Savings
The Environmental Service Program can help increase your cost savings in various ways. By ensuring proper dilution, you’ll have less wasted product. It can also prevent your staff from having to clean or disinfect more than once and ensure that your machines clean properly in one cycle. These prevent wasted time for your staff.
Increased safety
Workplace and guest safety are important considerations for every business. With our Environmental Service Program, you can help ensure your cleaning chemicals do their job correctly. This will ensure that your guests and staff are properly protected by disinfectants, reducing sick days for your staff.
The program also helps prevent concentrated product exposure for your employees. Whether using an enclosed system or the handheld dilution Easy Dilution System, the chemicals will be diluted as they are poured into your cleaning buckets, ensuring that your team does not come into contact with the concentrated product.
Better Results
Our Environmental Service Program can help you achieve better results. Our chemical management program helps ensure that chemicals are properly diluted and used, ensuring a proper clean for machines and staff.
Your dishes and laundry will be cleaned and disinfected correctly on their first run through the machines. High-touch surfaces will be adequately disinfected, reducing the spread of germs for your staff and guests. You won’t have sticky product residue on your surfaces.
Final Thoughts
Every facility has unique chemical needs, and the Environmental Service Program is designed to meet yours. Our team will evaluate your facility and recommend what dispensers, equipment, and chemicals best serve your needs.
Then, our team will install equipment and dispensers. Our service technicians will work with you to schedule any maintenance needs regularly and provide additional service, repairs, and training when needed.
By implementing these systems and products, you can ensure proper chemical usage and an overall safer and more cost-effective chemical management program. Proper chemical use can save money by preventing wasted products, ensuring that your staff does not have to perform a task twice, and help create a safe environment by preventing concentrated product exposure and illnesses.
Connect with us today for your free Environmental Service evaluation.