Shining Knight

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Enviable Occupational Health & Safety record

admin — Mon, 10 Nov 2014 01:17:49 +0000

Our excellent OH&S record is a direct result of our OH&S management systems, manuals, procedurse and policies. We are AS/NZS 4801 certified with a highly audited OH&S management system that has been specialy designed to ensure that we are an industry leader and innovator with OH&S. Our company record of 0.1% incidences is an achievement we are proud to have earned over the past 16 years.

Shining Knight Facility Services was recently nominated for the Victorian OH&S Management System of the Year 2011 by WorkSafe.

With so many “cowboys” in the facility services industry these days, can you afford not to use a professional, certified, service provider?

Why Green Cleaning?

admin — Sun, 09 Nov 2014 01:22:39 +0000

Why Shining Knight Uses Green Cleaning Products?

These days many people are asking themselves; “Why should I use green cleaning products.

Many cleaning products that cleaning contractors use rank among the most toxic everyday substances to which people are exposed. most chemical brands are not safe. Some especially toxic include ammonia, chlorine bleach, aerosol propellants, detergents, petroleum distillates and toluene.

Many of these substances not only harm the skin; they also give off toxic fumes that affect the person using the product and everyone else. Symptoms from ‘the flu’ to headaches have been associated with products that they use to clean your furniture,

Traditional cleaning agents infect our lungs with carcinogens, barrage the strength of our immune system, and expose you to unnecessary physical stress. They are also slow to biodegrade, often remaining present in the earth’s soil and environment for generations.?

Approximately 85,000 chemicals are in use today. According to the Breast Cancer Fund, complete toxicological screening data is available for only 7% of these chemicals, and more than 90% have never been tested for their effects on human health. (Breast Cancer Fund)

Shining Knight Cleaning making your work place safer for you

By using naturally derived, biodegradable non-toxic cleaning products Shining Knight Cleaning ensure a hygienic and safe workplace. The products we use have proven to clean just as well if not better than traditional cleaning products without the side effects associated with the use of toxic chemical cleaners.

The Choice is yours ?

What sort of commitment level does Shining Knight Facility Services make to its clients?

admin — Sat, 08 Nov 2014 01:37:29 +0000

Shining Knight Facility Service focus is to provide high quality, consistent services to our clients within Australia in an unobtrusive manner. We ensure that the presentation of the premises is not just to the standard you expect, but even higher, because your needs are our priority. Even more importantly, Shining Knight Facility Services makes it our business to understand your needs. This means that all our work is specifically undertaken to efficiently meet the outcomes that you desire.

In every aspect of our business, we strive to earn and to keep the trust of our clients, so you can be assured, when choosing Shining Knight Facility Services as your cleaning provider. At Shining Knight Facility Services we are proud to offer the full range of cleaning and maintenance services to a wide range of clients. We have an extremely strong commitment to building a rapport with our clients based on quality work, reliability and above all consistent high quality service each and every time.

For further information or to answer any questions please call Melbourne’s Number One cleaning contractor, Shining Knight Facility Services on 1300 860 110 or email: info@shiningknight.com.au

Good House Keeping

admin — Fri, 07 Nov 2014 01:23:21 +0000

Good house keeping is vital for any environment. Shining Knight ensure this is front of mind for all cleaners.

Poor house keeping not only looks messy but can lead to cross contamination with equipment being used in bathrooms coming into contact with equipment being used in areas such as kitchens.

This is why Shining Knight enforce the use of colour coded materials and insists that equipment be stored by colour and not mixed together.

With Shining Knight Cleaning you can rest assured that everything possible is being done to keep your work site hygienic.

What comments were submitted from Shining Knight Cleaning`s clients to the Australian Acheiver Awards in 2013?

admin — Sun, 02 Nov 2014 01:37:56 +0000

Testimonials from the Australian Achiever Awards 2013

“After having had problems with other customers we finally found Shining Knight Facility Services, who are fantastic. The staff are very polite, obliging and their work is excellent. They are very accommodating. For example if we are having a meeting, they discreetly leave and come back later to finish. The staff are very professional in their work and manner and we are more then satisfied”

“Our business runs 24 hours a day and Shining Knight Facility Services are aware of this and abide by what we require of them. Their communication with us is excellent. They have to show great flexibility and work around the clock because of how we operate. All staff are uniformed, friendly and very professional”

“Shining Knight Facility Services have been under contract with us for 4 years and during that time they have successfully achieved their ISO 9001: 2000. We meet with their coordinator once a month to discuss the program or process and they have embraced our continuous improvement. They are a very professional business”

Why disinfecting is so important

admin — Sat, 01 Nov 2014 11:05:19 +0000

Disinfecting and Monitoring Commonly touched Surfaces In Healthcare Facilities

Studies show that Clostridium difficile infections (CDIs) have been increasing in healthcare facilities, especially for high-risk patients such as the elderly or those receiving antibiotic therapy for other infections. Incidence rates are estimated to be 11 to 13 cases per 10,000 patient days, which translates into increased length in hospital stay ranging from 2 to 5 days per CDI.

The economic impact on healthcare facilities from these potentially non-reimbursed expenses can range from $2,500 to $7,000 per hospitalization. More importantly, multi-drug resistant strains are increasingly more difficult to treat, which results in an increased mortality rate.
Unfortunately, in many of today’s acute, ambulatory and continuing care facilities, if the room passes visual inspection it is considered clean.

However, it is generally accepted that only 50 percent of the surfaces are actually being disinfected during a terminal cleaning of a patient room. This is why Shining Knight invest considerable resources to training our staff to disinfect every surface when cleaning patient rooms.

Important surfaces

Epidemiological studies have shown that surfaces play a definitive role in transmitting disease to patients and other building occupants. This is especially true in the case of organisms like C. diff that can persist and survive on surfaces for extended periods of time. It has been shown that occupying a room that had been previously occupied by a patient with C. diff significantly increases the risk of acquiring the same organism.

To control the transmission of these infections Shining Knight cleaners ensure they adequately clean and disinfect the surfaces that patients and staff come into routine contact with, known as high-touch surfaces.

Shining Knight ensures that rooms not only appear clean but that they are hygienically clean.