Process Cleaning for Healthy Schools (PCHS) is a supporter of the Cleaning Industry Management Standard or CIMS (CIMS is patterned somewhat after ISO with an emphasis on commercial cleaning). Both the president and vice president of PCHS, Rex Morrison and Bill Blumenthal respectively are CIMS ISSA Certification Experts (ICE) ready to provide training and consulting services to cleaning organizations interested in complying with and preparing to be certified to the Cleaning Industry Management Standard (CIMS). Why is this important? [More]

The Process Cleaning for Healthy Facilities (PCHF) Website has launched as the official site of the Process Cleaning for Healthy Schools (PCHS) Consortium, a non-profit organization dedicated to helping its members produce healthy, high performance schools while protecting jobs in budget-constrained environments. [More]

Candidly, we do not believe in saving money by eliminating janitors. [More]

The Washoe County School District (WCSD) in Reno, Nev., the 127th largest school district in the country, with almost 68,000 students and 9,000 staff, is one of an elite few districts in the country to have achieved ISO 9001 certification, thanks in large part to the successful implementation of a program now known as Process Cleaning for Healthy Schools (PCHS). As word about the program has spread, other schools are getting involved. [More]

Cleaning for safer, healthier environments means that as much as possible, the cleaning crew works in a safe and healthy way to protect all occupants. To do this, custodians need to be educated and trained. Here are some important points training must cover... [More]

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) about Process Cleaning for Healthy Schools (PCHS). [More]

The non-profit Process Cleaning for Healthy Schools (PCHS) Consortium is officially supporting the promotion and distribution of the book, "Clean and Healthy Schools for Dummies" by Dr. David Mudarri, a publishing collaboration by the IEHA, Healthy Schools Campaign and Wiley & Sons Publishing. [More]

Before implementing PCHS, custodians at the different schools in Douglas County were doing things their own way — there was no standard process or system put in place regarding how to clean a classroom or restroom. Since standardizing the school district’s cleaning processes and systems, Blumenthal says they have raised standards, cut budget and reduced absenteeism. [More]

Process Cleaning for Healthy Schools (PCHS) strives to build quality in to the procedures, so it does not need to be "inspected in" later. [More]

Frederick Winslow Taylor's ideals of systemization and standardization, developed in the early 1900's, underpin Process Cleaning for Healthy Schools' mission to streamline cleaning processes through systematized methods and standardized products and equipment.
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We believe you must slow down before you can speed up. That is, you must carefully break down each step of the work to see where time (and energy) are being wasted, then eliminate wasted time/motion and create “single-piece flow” (a manufacturing term) – a fluid process that gets the job done in the smoothest, fastest, easiest way - without stops and starts.
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A limited number of duties enables workers to focus on the task at hand, and enter a state of relaxed flow, which research now shows can play a major role in overall operational performance and making the work easier and safer for workers. [More]

By integrating measurement into systems of cleaning, ICM enables a cycle of continuous improvement. [More]

The PCHS Consortium strongly encourages manufacturers of cleaning products interested in participating in PCHS to have their products tested via IEHA’s High Performance Cleaning Product (HPCP) Program in conjunction with the University of Massachusetts Lowell Toxics Use Reduction Institute’s (TURI).
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The Process Cleaning for Healthy Schools (PCHS) program is being rolled out nationally with the support of the International Executive Housekeepers Association (IEHA) and a Consortium of schools under a non-profit organization (“Process Cleaning for Healthy Schools, Inc.”). [More]

Process Cleaning for Healthy Schools (PCHS) optimizes efficiency, cleanliness, ease of deployment and health factors through a carefully designed and documented system tailored for K-12 school districts.

PCHS is owned by a non-profit consortium of schools dedicated to “schools helping schools.” It has been successfully implemented for a decade in more than 100 schools in the Western United States, and has recently been introduced to districts in the Midwest and Southeast United States. [More]