The following custodial tasks are performed in academic and administrative buildings:
Daily routine tasks
Classrooms and Lecture Halls:
Classrooms are cleaned nightly after the final class.
- Clean and re-supply chalkboards and whiteboards
- Empty waste containers; check or replace liners
- Clean/dust sills and other surfaces; instructors' tables, lecterns, etc.
- Sweep, dust mop, or wet mop floors to remove dirt/debris/spills
- Vacuum carpet
- Count and align chairs
Offices:
Offices are thoroughly cleaned once per week on a scheduled day.
- Empty waste containers; check or replace liners
- Sweep, dust mop, or wet mop floors to remove dirt/debris/spills
- Vacuum carpet
- Dust furniture/fixtures as needed
- Secure windows and doors
Note: Days that offices are not cleaned trash cans should be placed outside of the office and/or suite door for trash removal.
Laboratories:
Laboratories are thoroughly cleaned once per week on a scheduled day. Lab floors are dust mopped nightly.
Note: Custodial Services does not clean bench tops in labs unless they have been cleared by Environmental Health and Safety.
- Empty waste containers; check or replace liners
- Sweep, dust mop, or wet mop floors to remove dirt/debris/spills
- Vacuum carpet
Restrooms:
All restrooms are cleaned, sanitized, and restocked nightly.
- Empty waste containers; check or replace liners
- Clean and sanitize sinks, toilets, and urinals.
- Disinfect partitions/dividers
- Remove graffiti
- Clean mirrors
- Restock soap and paper dispensers
- Wet mop floor with disinfectant cleaner
- Clean window ledges
Lobbies/Entrances/Corridors:
Public areas are thoroughly cleaned and serviced nightly.
- Empty waste containers; check or replace liners
- Sweep, dust mop, or wet mop floors to remove dirt/debris/spills; move walk-off mats
- Vacuum carpet and carpet type walk off-mats
- Remove cobwebs
- Clean entryway glass
- Clean and disinfect water fountains
- Check and refill hand sanitizer dispensers; replace batteries
Vending/Lounge/Open areas:
- Clean chairs and table tops
- Empty waste containers; check or replace liners.
- Wipe down the outsides of waste containers and also the surrounding walls
- Sweep, dust mop, or wet mop floors to remove dirt/debris/spills
- Wipe down the exterior surfaces of refrigerators, stoves, and microwave ovens
Stairwells:
- Sweep, vacuum, dust mop, or wet mop floors to remove dirt/debris/spills
- Dust handrails as needed
- Disinfect door knobs, handles, push bars, and handrails weekly
Elevators:
- Wipe down walls, doors, and call buttons with disinfectant
- Remove hand prints, smudges, and graffiti
- Vacuum interior cab, door tracks, and entrance doors on each floor
Monthly routine tasks
- Wash the insides of waste receptacles.
- Wash restroom walls with disinfectant.
- Machine scrub all restroom floors with a germicidal cleaner.
- Dust window blinds.
- Bonnet clean high traffic areas in corridors, classrooms, and lobby entrances.
- Extract all floor mats in building entrances.
Annual routine tasks
- Strip and refinish floors in offices, labs, lounges, etc.
- Wash walls in offices, corridors, lounges, etc.
- Dust and damp wipe all light fixtures and other stationary fixtures.
- Shampoo all carpet