To avoid injury to your people and ours; to avoid damage to your facility, inventory, and equipment

To maintain a hazard-free workplace for our janitors and for your personnel, CBN has researched and established procedures to be followed when refinishing floors, cleaning carpeting and windows - even when performing night-to-night janitorial duties.

CBN's mandatory personnel training program emphasizes strict adherence to established safety protocols when handling equipment and chemicals. CBN does not tolerate the use of non-approved chemicals or untested chemical combinations.

Should one of our janitors be discovered compromising our established safety procedures, that janitor will be dealt with strictly (most commonly by flogging, which owner Bob Croft especially relishes).

CBN has won safety awards from the Building Services Contractors Association International, and from State Fund Workers' Compensation. CBN has had no reportable on-the-job injuries since 1997.

We feature Ecolab's™ family of hard floor care chemicals, including their non-skid floor finish. Our full service program includes burnishing and refinishing resilient tile floors, certainly to enhance the appearance and extend their useful life, but more importantly because properly maintained floor finish is more effectively cleaned and is more slip-resistant than is bare tile.

We rely on Ecolab's "Management of Risk Exposure" (M. O. R. E.) program, including common-sense tips on prevention and response, to provide us and our customers the benefits of Ecolab's broad experience with slip and fall accidents.

You may be interested in downloading a copy of Ecolab's Slip & Fall Safety survey. Your CBN representative will be happy to go over the results with you, offering suggestions of how to reduce your exposure to liability.

Should you have a slip & fall incident at your facility, Ecolab has made available a Slip & Fall accident report form, which may help to limit liability by having a clear record of the incident.

You may also link to Floor Safety Technical Data; a paper from Ecolab explaining static coefficient of friction (SCOF) and how it relates to floor safety and liability.

We feature Johnson's™ janitorial chemicals, not only because of the availability of excellent training and safety material specific to their chemicals, but also because of the generally user-friendly nature of the products. It also makes good sense to source a family of chemicals (rest room sanitizers, etc.) from a single manufacturer. This avoids unexpected reactions between chemicals. (It's not unknown for janitorial firms to use, for instance, the cheapest wax available, then clean it with whatever multipurpose detergent the 24-hour convenience store stocks, without ever testing one against the other).

Using videos, printed material, and other aids from Johnson's™ and the Building Service Contractor's Association International, we train our crews in chemical safety, usage and disposal, general job safety, and OSHA guidelines. We also utilize the Johnson "tech team" for backup expert advice and problem solving in the above areas.

To keep the jobsite safe for your people and ours, we steer clear of bleach, ammonia, scouring powder and high VOC products. We use squirt bottles and pump sprayers rather than aerosols (see Health for details).

Whenever possible, we avoid storing any chemicals or equipment on your site. When we inspect your facility, we also check the janitor's closet to ensure compliance with OSHA standards (and with plain common sense) on chemical labeling, cleanliness and general safety. We provide you an MSDS book covering all the chemicals we use, so if an accident ever occurs, or OSHA pays you a visit, you will have the necessary safety information on hand to protect your employees and yourself.

For an enlightening experience, take a peek inside your janitor's closet. That bottle of window cleaner without a factory label - even that mop bucket full of last night's chemical brew - is an "unlabeled chemical container", just waiting for an on-the-job accident, or for a fine to be levied against you.