Workshop cleaning: How to do it right!

 

In a workshop, I put the most diverse ideas into practice. Residues from work on workpieces, such as shavings, but also work equipment such as oils and greases, leave clear traces. For efficient and sustainable work, it is high time to organize the right workshop cleaning.

Today’s blog post addresses the question of how you can carry out workshop floor cleaning and the care of other surfaces and ensure that your workplace and that of your colleagues are always in a perfect and safe condition.

In our checklist for cleaning the workshop, you will find important clues and information on the subject and you may discover one or the other tip that you did not know before.

1. Reduce pollution

Particular attention is paid to cleaning the workshop floor during workshop maintenance. Here the floors are particularly heavily used and regular cleaning is necessary for safety reasons.

Because only well-maintained floors minimize the risk of accidents at work. In addition, hygienic aspects also play a decisive role in workshop cleaning.

With regular basic cleaning, you ensure that dirt is reduced and removed after the work is done. Besides loose dirt, which can be easily removed with a broom, we also used technical devices with which you can achieve thorough cleaning even in hard-to-reach corners.

In addition, we should carry out intensive floor cleaning at selected intervals, which can be carried out with or without sealing, depending on ‌the floor covering.

Here, for example, impregnations offer the possibility of protecting the floor from renewed soiling and thus ensuring easy cleaning of the workshop.

2. Use the workshop system

An efficient workshop system ensures that you optimize work in your workshop with individual solutions. Various cupboards, shelving systems, and module inserts, which are specially adapted to the needs of workshops, allow you to store all your tools optimally and protect them from dirt.

This means that all devices are always ready for use and can be stowed away in their usual place immediately after work, where they can be found again.

Thanks to a tidy workshop in which there is a certain order system, cleaning is ‌easy and can be carried out routinely without tools and work materials impeding cleaning.

3. Use suitable cleaning agents

Choosing the right cleaning agent offers you a real reduction in workload in your workshop, especially when stubborn dirt, for example, we must eliminate oil residues.

There are many special cleaning agents available on the market today that remove selected stains leaving no residue. These include special industrial cleaners that you can use to clean steel surfaces and hard floors, but also to care for equipment and machines.

In this context, please always observe the detailed description of the product and only use the respective cleaning agent according to the manufacturer’s specifications.

Another tip is the use of so-called wax or oil-sweeping chips. These bind dirt from grease and oil as soon as it occurs and thus enables a good cleaning result, for example in combination with solvent-based floor wax agents.

4. Use smart devices

We recommend wet and dry vacuum cleaners for workshops. Someone can use individually modern combination devices and thus ensure lasting cleanliness, dry or wet. Many also offer suction and blow functions in one device to ensure a good cleaning. The workshop vacuums have special filter systems that pick up even the finest dirt without damaging the device.

With the support of interchangeable nozzles, such as floor or crevice nozzles, you can also reach corners that are difficult to access.

A high-pressure cleaner can also make work really easier. We can only use it if the workshop is actually tidy and workpieces can avoid further damage.

5. Keep employee welfare in mind

One important aspect should not be missing from the workshop cleaning checklist: occupational safety. We legally regulated this in the Occupational Health and Safety Act and in the accident prevention regulations and refers to selected regulations relating to safety.

This includes pointing out possible risks in the workshop to your employees and training them in the handling of equipment, dangerous goods, and also the substances used, such as cleaning agents. Protection is top of the priority, workers with the right work clothing.

A clean workshop also includes well-kept staff rooms and sanitary facilities. The checklist for cleaning a workshop also includes cleaning the lounges and kitchens, changing rooms, and toilets. Make sure that all hygiene requirements are always a priority and that all surfaces always need disinfection.

With the help of a cleaning plan, you record all the important tasks that ensure that your employees feel comfortable in the workshop and that we observed all safety regulations. Regulate the first step, who will take over the respective cleaning activities. We can consider both internal employees and an external service provider for this.

6. Get professional help

With the combination of a great deal of effort, cleaning the workshop is often very hard to achieve during the ongoing work process. It is advisable to hire an experienced cleaning team that, besides the basic cleaning, will take over all cleaning tasks that arise in your workshop.

In order to get a precise overview of ‌services and the associated prices. You can first have a free and non-binding offer made for you. It provides a detailed breakdown of all services and the associated costs. In this way, you avoid unforeseen costs and have a meaningful basis for planning your workshop cleaning budget.

Workshop cleaning is implemented reliably!

Carry out workshop cleaning sustainably? Based on our checklist for cleaning the workshop. You have received valuable information that will support your inefficient maintenance and thus also increase productivity in the workshop.

Besides the right cleaning agents, modern equipment will also help you to carry out all the ‌tasks. Another option is professional workshop cleaning by an experienced team. Our experts from SCS Group Cleaning Solution will be happy to help you with words and deeds.

In a personal meeting at your site. We get our own picture and check‌ the condition of the floor in the workrooms. Together we can plan the steps for professional cleaning and also discuss topics such as protective seals, etc.