As a professional cleaning company your employees will most likely be working in offices after business hours. Your employees' safety and keeping the building secure are vital to your company's reputation. Have your employees follow a few simple guidelines to make sure the building they are working in stays secure!

1. For employees' safety and the security of the building, make sure employees lock all entrances when working in the building. Make sure they also know which inner doors are required to be locked (if any).
2. Employees need to report any suspicious person or activity to a supervisor immediately.
3. Employees should always keep all keys in their possession. Never place keys on a desk or table and never leave keys in a door.
4. When leaving an office employees should make sure that all lights that are to be turned off, are indeed off. Employees should take that extra few seconds to glance back and make sure the lights are out.
5. Employees need to double check all entrances/exits on leaving to make sure they locked all doors. The last step is to turn on the security system.
6. Some buildings may have keyboxes in janitorial closets where keys kept. Make sure that your employees return the keys to the keybox before they leave the building.

Steve Hanson

Steve Hanson, President of TheJanitorialStore.com, has over 20 years of experience as a building service contractor. His first company was located in Boise, Idaho. In 2002 he sold the business and relocated to Minnesota where he started a new commercial cleaning company and a janitorial supplies distributor company.

Steve always had the desire to begin an online community for building service contractors. So much of what is available in this industry is for much larger janitorial companies -- there aren't many places online for people who are just getting started, or people who already have a small, successful cleaning business, but would like to take their business to the next level. So in 2005 he started TheJanitorialStore.com.

TheJanitorialStore.com is a community for owners of small commercial cleaning companies that is designed to allow subscribers to ask questions, participate in tele-seminars, find training programs designed for the smaller company, share their knowledge in telephone and online discussion forums, read new articles every week, and much more.