Allen Rathey

Enhanced Floor Care Technology Opens Door to Better Cleaning, New Business

Rest Assured Cleaning uses the latest methods and technology to optimize outcomes for clients ranging from offices, retail, medical, manufacturing, and construction sites.

Academic Excellence Meets Cleaning Excellence

A West Coast public research university consisting of several colleges within a multi-campus state system, focuses on academic rigor to help students meet 21st Century demands for excellence in knowledge, skills, and workplace performance.

AutoVac at Aurora Public Schools – Making the Complicated Simple

Cleaning floors using the Kaivac AutoVac instead of an auto scrubber is the trend in a growing number of APS primary schools. The district has replaced four to date, with perhaps a dozen more coming in the future.<br>

Success with Kaivac: An Interview with Michigan State University (MSU)

A Q&amp;A with Paul Manson of MSU about their cleaning success with the use of Kaivac equipment.

UNLV Student Recreation and Wellness Center (SRWC): Empowerment Through Knowledge, Health, and Cleaning

William Mattos, SRWC Custodial Supervisor, a 30+ year cleaning veteran, applies the empowerment mindset to the cleaning staff of 15 that maintains SRWC facilities comprising 184,000 square feet &ndash; with health and safety as top priorities.

Trash Compacting in Custodial - Good Things in Small Packages

Trash compacting with onboard vacuum-pressure rather than using a hand to press down trash, takes Kaivac&#39;s systems to a new level.

Award-Winning School District Models Effective Cleaning

This award-winning school district is helped in its effort to provide the best learning, living and working environment - in large part by adopting and modeling the best cleaning.

Aurora Public Schools (APS) – Shaping Successful Cleaning

Michael Ward, Custodial Coordinator and Trainer, has spent more than two decades shaping successful cleaning.

Choosing the Best Cleaning Products for Healthier Environments

When choosing the best cleaning products, apply the words of Stephen R. Covey: "The enemy of the best is often the good."

How to Show the Value of Cleaning

Understanding and showing customers the true Value of Cleaning is the key to personal and professional success.

Best Floor Cleaning Tips on How to Stop the Mop

Myths about floor cleaning abound. Consider the following myths and corresponding truths.

Why It is Time to Stop Floor Mopping

After more than a century, by adopting better ways, it’s time to move beyond traditional floor mopping and to stop the mop.

Semmelweis Lesson – Handwashing as a Hygiene Model

Following the proven principles of effective handwashing will help keep your facility completely clean for healthy results.

Keep Your Powder Dry - Microfiber Cloth Too

Keep your microfiber cloth, like proverbial gunpowder, dry to ensure desired removal outcomes for effective, complete, and hygienic cleaning.

Microfiber Cloths and Mops Exposed–Lying with Statistics such as 99.9% Kill

There are abuses when it comes to marketing and performance claims with microfiber towels and mops.

Healthy Cleaning—San Juan College Cares

San Juan College, Farmington, NM, one of the top five community colleges in the state—serving 15,000 students on four campuses—cares, and its ICARE (Innovation, Collaboration, Accountability, Respect and Excellence) mission denotes how its 43 workers in three shifts maintain 675,000 cleanable square feet in a healthy cleaning regimen. According to Robert “Bob”

Microfiber Cleaning Cloths–The Rest of the Story

Microfiber cleaning cloths work like magic. At least, that is the story marketing tells. However, that is just Part of the Story. Knowing the Rest of the Story is essential to better cleaning.

Kaivac – Hygienic Rehab for Facilities

“Rehab for facilities”

12 Reasons Day Cleaning is Physically, Fiscally Healthier

Cleaning during daylight hours, a.k.a., 'Daytime Cleaning' or 'Day Cleaning'- while not practical in every instance - makes sense where it can be fully or partly integrated into a facility's operations plan.

HFI - A Commentary on Cleaning Standards

There has been much talk about establishing definitive cleaning standards within our industry, but efforts have met with mixed success. Why? 

Renewable Cleaning - The Right Prescription for What Ails Us

Why renewable, water-only cleaning processes will gradually displace many chemical-driven approaches Cleaning is the removal of unwanted matter, including dirt, germs and toxic substances.

Integrated Infection Prevention: Cleaning and Measurement Take Aim at Hospital Acquired Infections (HAIs)

Most experts agree that a multifaceted approach is the best way to help stem the tide of Hospital Acquired Infections (HAIs). 

ICM Defined

Integrated Cleaning and Measurement (ICM) is an open source unified-systems approach to institutional and industrial cleaning that uses measurement as a product and process selection, enhancement and validation tool.

Remove It, Prove It - Better Cleaning Through Scientific Validation

Cleaning is the removal of unwanted matter, including macro soil we can see: dirt, debris, and spills;

Professions of the Future: Indoor Environmental Experts

Integrated Cleaning and Measurement (ICM) is changing the perception of the cleaning industry and generating interest from individuals who want to pursue cleaning as a career.

ICM Q&A

We are excited and proud to introduce to you the concept of Integrated Cleaning and Measurement (ICM) - The Industry's First Open-Source Cleaning System.