by Brianna Crandall — April 15, 2015—The nonprofit Process Cleaning for Healthy Schools (PC4HS) supported National Healthy Schools Day —an annual event coordinated by the national nonprofit Healthy Schools Network—last week by promoting a classroom anti-clutter program in New England schools, with the goal to enable better, more productive, and healthier cleaning in school environments.
As part of the event, PC4HS offered a “Decluttering ‘On Purpose’ Work Sheet” that reminds educators of the purpose of their classroom, helps identify sources of clutter and alternative resources, and promotes using a three-tub system to “Put Away,” “Give Away or Sell,” or “Throw Away” items that are cluttering the room.
PC4HS is partnering with M.D. Stetson Company—an independently owned and operated cleaning and building maintenance supplies distributor in New England—to implement Process Cleaning for Healthy Schools (PC4HS) in the region. The PC4HS program is built on systems of specialization, simplification and workloading. Unlike proprietary or product-driven programs, PC4HS is backed by a nonprofit structure and is adapted for K-12 schools.
“Cutting clutter in classrooms reduces hiding places for dust, touch points harboring pathogens, and surfaces to be cleaned by staff,” said Rex Morrison, founder and president of Process Cleaning for Healthy Schools (PC4HS). “By reducing clutter in classrooms by just 10%, we can help ensure spaces are cleaned to a higher standard, more completely, with healthier outcomes and less chemistry, and at commensurately lower cost.”
