TOMORROW’S CLEANING DECEMBER 09
Efficient, controlled
Inefficient Dispensing
consumption
grabbing armful of the stuff, just in case. The Let’s now consider the second aspect. more cost. Similarly there is the issue of
consequent reduction in waste tissue from We have spoken blithely of changing rolls of additional stocking and storage for the extra
controlled dispensing is obvious when you tissue and of excess waste in dispensed tissue, tissues that are going to be needed to
think about it. Significantly in quantitive terms, but maybe we have not yet thought through the replenish single roll dispensers whose content
studies monitoring continuous pull through other ramifications of those statements. has been prematurely and wastefully
dispensing as opposed to controlled
The regular monitoring and cleaning regime for
discarded. They don’t walk there by
dispensing, have recorded excess waste as
the washroom facility is an expertly devised
themselves and if the idea of working out the
high as 15% for the former method. Hang on
plan of work to give the most efficient and
cost of the necessary additional floor space
to that number.
effective balance between the desired high
(and we have sympathy here!) is perhaps a
The other control area to address is the refilling
hygiene and presentational standards and the
little too tortuous to contemplate, it does
highlight the way to arrive at cost in use
of the dispensers. With a single roll dispenser,
costs of achieving them. Changes in the
calculations that establish robust criteria by
nobody would blame the stadium facilities
method of dispensing tissue can have dramatic
and perhaps unexpected consequences. For
which to make proper management decisions.
operator, who seeing that the roll is nearing the
end and knowing that the full time whistle is
example, if there is excessive over usage of These are real costs that should properly be
about to be blown, changes the roll to make
tissue, washroom waste containers can quickly taken into account when making accurate and
sure that there are no dispensers running low
become both an eyesore and a slips and trip professionally detailed analyses of cost in use
when the crowd make their way home. Good
hazard when they are overfilled. Simple to statistics. They can make significant savings
decision though that may be, perhaps 20% of
correct, of course, just empty them more often. without huge additional effort. Just a more
the roll may still be usable. It won’t be used
So more monitoring visits are needed. professional view of the interrelated costs that
though. It will be thrown away as waste. So by
So how much added cost is involved there?
deliver great washroom solutions and happy
combining these dispensing and refilling
Well we don’t know. The answer must
employers and customers. So perhaps not
results, suddenly what seemed to be a simple
inevitably be dependent upon each
such a simple equation, but after all, not so
arithmetical answer to achieve the most
organisation and all will differ to a greater or
difficult either.
economical cost in use solution is perhaps out
lesser extent. What we do know is, it isn’t free!
by as much as 35%. And not in a good way! More work, more employee time expended,
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