Are you currently paying your child care employees to clean your daycare alongside looking after the children? While it may save you a little money, it could also be putting the children's health and safety at risk. If you're not sure why, take a look at these 2 safety benefits of hiring a professional cleaner.
They Kill More Germs
The first benefit of hiring professional cleaners is their cleaning knowhow—only professionals know exactly how to thoroughly eliminate all germs from a daycare.
Young children tend to have poor hygiene skills. They often eat, play outdoors and even go to the toilet without washing their hands thoroughly. As a result, they'll spread tons of germs throughout your facility each day. Since children and toddlers also have fragile immune systems, these germs can easily lead to illness outbreaks. If you don't want to have sick kids and angry parents on your hands, it's important that you thoroughly rid your daycare of bacteria each day.
While child care staff can usually spot-clean toys and particularly dirty areas with ease, they don't have the experience and knowledge to eliminate every germ your facility. Professional cleaners, on the other hand, know how and where to clean to kill bacteria before it grows to unmanageable levels. They'll use more thorough techniques than your staff, and they won't miss any nooks and crannies that germs could thrive in.
They Use Safe Products
Another big safety benefit of professional cleaning is that cleaning companies know the safest products to use in a daycare setting.
No matter how well you keep an eye on the children you look after, they will inevitably put toys in their mouths. This means it's crucial that any disinfectants used in your daycare are completely non-toxic and safe for children to ingest. Using the wrong products could cause a serious poisoning incident, and it's easy for your employees to make a mistake when they don't have experience reading cleaning product labels.
When you hire professional cleaners, you can trust them to use the safest products on the market. They also often have access to a wider range of high-quality, effective, organic disinfectants than your childcare staff could find at a supermarket.
On top of that, since your staff don't have access to the same wholesale suppliers than cleaning professionals do, any non-toxic disinfectants they do find will usually be expensive. When you factor these cleaning product costs into how much you currently pay staff to keep your daycare clean, you may even find that you could save money by hiring professional cleaners.
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