Difficult Times Call For Smart Thinking
In the current economic climate, when businesses simply cannot tolerate waste, two of the UK’s leading high street banks and the London HQ of a world insurance market have been among the first to recognise that a revolutionary new cleaning system called CleanSmart™ can give added value to property support services.
CleanSmart™ has been proven to deliver up to 25% in efficiency savings by bringing lean engineering principles to the traditional cleaning process and is delivering exceptional results with a wide range of additional benefits. Brought from the USA to the UK by OCS the system, which is most effective in buildings with an internal area greater than 100,000 sq ft, has already been successfully implemented in more than 7.5 million sq ft of office space. The CleanSmart™ planning team disseminates and analyses site data and, using specialised software, minimises the net linear distance travelled by each operative in order to minimise the potential for wasted time.
At the world insurance market’s London HQ, within the first three months of the 240,000 sq ft cleaning contract, there was an increase in productivity of 78% on the core clean. Terms and conditions were enhanced for the staff who transferred to the contract and the client benefited from high service levels. “CleanSmart™ is widely regarded as a success by OCS staff, the HSBC/first direct client and myself. Evidence for this can be seen in a great increase in the staff’s output and quality as well as creating a better team atmosphere,” remarked Shirley Cunningham, OCS site manager.
But CleanSmart™ isn’t just about cost savings, the system also recently won a global award for sustainability through its effective waste elimination. “It’s all about working smarter” says OCS’ Kevin Evans,“ and in the world of finance the results have already been obvious.”
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