Monday, May 3rd to Thursday, May 6th
The need to maintain all recreation environments to the highest level of cleanliness is expected by those who use our facilities each day. Recreation buildings are large, have huge amounts of human traffic under all kinds of conditions and are often under staffed with little budget. Understanding the basic requirements of public health regulations as well as how to properly plan and implement a comprehensive work detail can make the task of housekeeping and sanitizing a recreation facility manageable.
This course is designed for front-line staff. It will provide participants with practical proven techniques to safely work through all cleaning jobs aimed at ensuring satisfied users and extended facility life expectancy.
Topics include:
- Understanding the recreation cleaning environment challenges: aquatic, dry-floor, ice, change rooms and common areas
- Preventing accidents in the workplace - accident reporting
- Legislation: Public Health Regulations, OHSA
- Role of staff in maintaining a clean safe facility
- Working when the public is in the building
- Working safely with chemicals in the workplace
- First Aid
- Electrical safety
- Proper lifting
- Bacteria, disease control
- Blood borne pathogens and their risks
- Cleaning with steam and understanding mould
- Fire prevention
- Confined spaces
- Fall protection and safely working at heights
- Use and care of Personal Protective Equipment
- Cleaning food preparation areas
- Wall types and cleaning
- Cleaning windows, trims, ceilings, fans and beams
- Floor types and cleaning requirements
- Stripping, waxing, buffing, carpets and furniture
- Restrooms: sinks, urinals and toilets
- Specialized cleaning: lights, computers, leather and grout
- Dealing with garbage and recycling programs
- Controlling stock and inventory
- Dealing with community disasters that elevate facility use and cleaning requirements
- Policies, procedures and record keeping: tracking cleaning tasks to maximize budge allocations
This course will also include a "janitorial rodeo" which will allow participants to view and try various pieces of janitorial equipment.
Instructors: Steve Hardie, RRFA, CIT, CPT Director of Parks and Recreation, Municipality of North Perth
