The most obvious situations in which to use color-coding in the janitorial industry are in restrooms or in food service prep or cafeteria areas, isolating those germs from the rest of the building. However, color-coding can be used to designate specialty cleaning from general cleaning tasks as well.
Other benefits of using color-coding include simplicity in training a multi-lingual staff, the facilitation of better organization and management of tools and products and increased cleanliness in general.
posted on 3/25/2010