A clean school environment is important. Under no circumstances should you ever allow students to be educated in a place that is dirty and unhygienic. Young people’s immune systems tend not to be as robust as older people’s ones, meaning they are more susceptible to illness and infection than us. If you do not keep the school you look after clean, students could end up being exposed to harmful germs and bacteria, which could make them sick. Young people who’re made sick by your negligence could file lawsuits against you. This post will explore this topic in more detail, explaining why a clean school environment is important.
Hiring Cleaning Services
Professional cleaning services are usually needed for schools. It’s pretty unreasonable to expect an entire school to be cleaned by anybody who isn’t professionally trained. Whether it’s Terran’s Spic & Span Cleaning Service LLC or another similar company, find a cleaning firm with experience and knowledge. The more experienced an organization is, the more thoroughly they are going to clean the school you manage.
Why Is a Clean School Environment Important?
1. Protecting Young People’s Lives
The first and most important reason why a clean school environment is important is because it helps you to protect young people’s lives. If your school is dirty, students are more likely to get sick. Students getting sick because of you will wreak havoc on your conscience. Parents will not want to send their children to school if they learn the school they are studying in is dirty or does not promote cleanliness. As a principal or caretaker or even just a stakeholder, it is your responsibility to ensure students are taught in a safe environment.
2. Explaining the Importance of Cleanliness
Making a point of cleaning the school you manage helps show young people the importance of cleanliness. It’s becoming more and more common for people to adopt maximalist lifestyles, shunning minimalism which has dominated popular culture for decades now. Maximalism often involves hoarding antiques and other items, creating cozy environments. Young people are exposed to maximalist influencers on the internet. It’s a lot harder to keep a maximalist interior clean. Showing the importance of cleaning will motivate young people to keep their houses, maximalist or minimalist, clean as they become young adults.
3. Teaching Hygiene to Children
Hygiene is important. Cleaning one’s hands after going to the bathroom, for example, can prevent germs from spreading. In addition to preventing germs from spreading, cleaning one’s hands makes a person feel good. Meticulously cleaning the school that you manage is an effective way to teach children the importance of good hygiene. Make sure that you install sinks all around the campus that you manage so that young people can wash their hands on the move. Consider implementing antibacterial hand gel stations also.
4. Eliminating Germs and Bacteria
Germs and bacteria are everywhere. There is nothing you can do to totally eliminate them. However, by cleaning the school that you manage, you can more effectively suppress the most dangerous ones, i.e., salmonella or coronavirus. Schools are hotbeds for germs, mainly because of how many young people pass through them on a daily basis. Eliminating germs and bacteria not only protects students, but also protects their families, who they will take these germs back to when they finish school for the day. Make sure to use cleaning chemicals designed to eradicate germs. Ideally, you should use ones that do not contain harsh, abrasive chemicals.
5. Protecting the Most Vulnerable Students
When we talk about ‘young people’ as a group, it is important to clarify that not every young person’s immune system is the same. Some people have weak ones and others strong ones. The most vulnerable young people need to be protected more than anyone else. For example, children with weak immune systems. If a child with a weak immune system is exposed to a dangerous bacteria or germ, this could put them in hospital. Encouraging students to practice good personal hygiene is an effective way to further limit the spread of germs and protect vulnerable individuals.
6. Eradicating Pests and Vermin
Pests and vermin are more likely to establish nests and breeding grounds in unclean environments than they are in neat, tidy ones. You therefore need to keep your school clean to keep unwanted critters away. If any pests or vermin do make themselves at home in your school, make sure that you take immediate action. You should intervene by enlisting the support of a professional pest removal service. A service of this kind will be able to offer you a higher level of care than anybody else, ensuring pests are eliminated immediately and cannot harm your students.
7. Adhering to Industry Standards
Schools are required to be kept clean. It’s illegal to have a school that’s in a total state of disarray. Your industry regulator will likely force you to close your doors until you clean the school you look after post-inspection. Inspections are usually conducted once or twice every six months. Sometimes they are conducted without a school’s knowledge, i.e., an inspector will come in and pretend to be a parent and take a look around. If you fail an inspection, you could also be fined. The fines levied against schools guilty of not being kept clean can range from a few hundred to a few thousand dollars. They can even be tens of thousands.
8. Protecting Yourself from Lawsuits.
Finally, by keeping the school that you are looking after clean, you will be able to protect yourself from lawsuits. When this post mentions lawsuits, it does not mean from the regulatory bodies monitoring your school, but from students’ parents. Parents will want to take you to court and sue you if their child gets sick because they were studying in an unclean environment. Keeping your school clean is therefore the best way to ensure you do not get called into court and sued.
A clean school environment is very important. Students cannot be expected to focus and learn in an environment that’s unclean. Hopefully, the information given in this post will help you to better understand why schools are as important as they are.