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]

Process Cleaning for Healthy Schools (PCHS) and the Ford Motor Company have more than a few things in common. How so? [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]

September 14, 2011, was a big day in the professional cleaning industry. That was when the second round of public comments regarding Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design for Existing Buildings: Operations and Maintenance (LEED-EBOM) began. [More]

Healthier cleaning processes in schools are good for workers, students and staff; they also make a difference for attendance and the long-term bottom line. But how do you implement a healthy cleaning program in a time of immediate budget crisis? Speakers addressed effective strategies and practical tips to implementing Process Cleaning for Healthy Schools (PCHS). [More]

At Washoe County School District, where PCHS got started, the daily average attendance record has risen by a remarkable six-and-a-half percent! [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]

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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