Page 14 - Hospital Cleaners Handbook - Whitehouse

DO I NEED A CLEAN CLOTH FOR THE NEXT AREA?
The traditional method of cleaning with chemicals and cotton cloths has resulted in breaking down dirt and grime and spreading it evenly over the surface. Residual chemicals and dirt provide great opportunities for bugs to grow, not just on moist surfaces, but also within the cleaning cloth itself.
When this cloth is used to clean another surface later on, it acts as a bug incubation station transporting germs to the next area or surface you are trying to clean.
Germs grow in damp cleaning cloths, full of chemicals and grime. This is the reason why we need a cloth that not only picks up dirt and grime without releasing it onto other surfaces, but a cloth that inhibits bacterial growth.
This is why we use silver anti-bacterial microfibre that inhibits the growth of bacteria within the cloth, and proper laundering that sanitises the microfibre in the laundering process.
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