Our growth strategies include the continuance of our current lead generation and quoting processes, albeit at a faster rate, plus a more aggressive approach to the acquisition of cleaning businesses. As you know, growth in the group is better for all franchisees for many reasons. Five key reasons are:

• The larger we get, the more our brand (Save Time Services) will be recognized. This is very valuable in helping us all gain new customer leads and contracts.


• As we grow, the additional new customers that are gained and that then receive quality service, provide valuable reference points for us to use in gaining further new business.


• A larger group enhances our ability to win group and national contracts - work that you may able to share in.


• Having more quality franchisees can provide valuable back up when other franchisees wish to take holidays, or to take leave for any other reason.


• The more of us there are, the more we learn, and this means more information and tips that can be shared across the group. This includes, tips on cleaning methods, general market information, activities of national or group customers/prospects, and so on.

If you have some tips or words of wisdom to contribute, we would be happy to hear from you.

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With shrinking budgets and inflating concerns over worker safety and indoor air quality (IAQ), cleaning professionals looking to cut costs and improve worker and building occupant health and safety should consider standardization.

Standardization of cleaning systems involves the standardizing of:

• chemicals used;
• equipment used;
• training given to workers; and
• cleaning procedures.

Standardization of Colour-Coding Promotes Hygiene and Foodservice Safety

The US Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported that contaminated food causes as many as 76 million illnesses, 325,000 hospitalizations, and 5,000 deaths in the United States each year.

These figures explain why the food industry is looking for new ways to serve healthier food - and one of the most promising trends in the US and Australian foodservice industry is the implementation of colour-coding systems.

"Colour-coding is spreading throughout the commercial kitchen to cooking utensils and even cleaning tools, such as brushes, mops and mop buckets", said David Frank of KnowledgeWorx, a consulting firm based in Highlands Ranch, Colorado, USA. It appears that this trend has been accelerating in recent years.

Colour-Coding Improves Sanitation

"Separating equipment by colour improves sanitation and prevents cross-contamination", advised Frank. "Many restaurants also use a separate set of colour-coded cleaning tools in their kitchens and another set of colour-coded cleaning tools in their restrooms for the same reason."

Stopping the spread of cross-contamination is probably the number one reason to use colour-coded cleaning tools. There are productivity benefits as well:

Training and Turnover

With the high turnover rate in both the JanSan and the foodservice industries, managers have difficulty finding the time to train new employees.

Colour-coding can reduce training time significantly. Take language for example. Because English is often a second language in these same industries, colour-coding systems are intuitive and help overcome communication barriers.

Colour coding of chemicals not only provides standardization but also leads to the use of the most effective value for money chemicals, instead of having duplication and wastage. Anybody could do or use whatever they wanted under previous systems. Some people were doing very good jobs and some people were not doing anything.

So the advent of colour coding is here, and here to stay. In NSW, Australia, it is already law. We look forward to the adoption of these new improvements by all franchisees, contractors and employees.


Save Time Services provides this information as part of its ongoing efforts to promote a safe, healthy, and vital cleaning industry.