The Living Wage accreditation
We’re delighted that we’ve received our accreditation from The Living Wage Foundation.
The real Living Wage is based on the cost of living and is voluntarily paid by nearly 10,000 UK employers who believe we all need a wage that meets our everyday needs. Accredited Living Wage employers are certified by the Living Wage Foundation having proving that they pay all their staff at least The Real Living Wage.
It’s never been more important to ensure all members of the Green Mop team are paid a decent wage for their hard work.
We work very hard to manage our costs in order to remain competitive for our customers, alongside our commitment to The Living Wage for our Green Moppers.
Cleaning plan efficiencies – reduce the cost of your cleaning
We strive to maintain a good value service for all our business customers. With costs rising for all businesses, ours is also affected by increases in wages, utilities and materials. To that end, we work to implement efficiencies for our customers’ cleaning plans, where possible.
- Identify the key areas that need daily cleaning for hygiene or high profile purposes – kitchens, washrooms, touch points, reception areas etc
- Identify areas / tasks that can be cleaned less frequently, perhaps once per week in sections across the week – desks, dusting, full vacuuming
- Encourage your staff to take care of their own washing up, or take it to the kitchen to be dealt with by your cleaner. Collecting cups and plates from desks has an impact on the time available for cleaning
- Encourage a clear desk policy, allowing desks to be cleaned efficiently
- Reduce the number of bins. Especially taking away individual desk bins and replacing with centralised general waste bins near the recycling. This simple idea helps cleaner efficiency will fewer bins to empty, clean and re-line. It also reduces the number of bin liners used and improves recycling rates.
Get in touch with us if you want to have a chat about what efficiencies can work for you. You can’t cut corners with cleaning, especially when trying to minimise contamination and maintain a healthy environment. But we can make sure we get the most out of your budget.
The Green Mop office team work with our suppliers to keep the cost of materials down. We have a profile of local supply partners where the costs of quality, eco-friendly products are monitored to make sure we’re getting best value. We make sure all staff are trained and checked for efficient cleaning methods and correct product dosing and usage.
These are a few of the ways in which Green Mop works to maintain a good value service for our customers.
Green Mop office Christmas opening hours
We’re all looking forward to a bit of a break over Christmas. Our Site Management Team and Cleaning Teams will still be working where needed. Our Green Mop office will be closed from 24 December. We’ll be back on 4 January.
During the time we’re closed, we will be keeping an eye on emails and will respond to any urgent matters. We just may not be as prompt as we usually are.
Any non-urgent matters will be sorted out once we’re back!
From all of us at Green Mop, please have a safe and Happy Christmas.
WE WON! Employer of the Year at the Sussex Business Awards 2021
Wow. We were truly not expecting that.
Absolutely thrilled to have won Employer of the Year award at the prestigious Sussex Business Awards.
I am so very proud to have our business recognised in this category. To have our un-glamorous work, and our hard-working people rewarded with this accolade is wonderful.
The sponsors were Loch Associates who are HR and Employment Law specialists. A sponsor qualified to assess the nominees and finalists, I’m sure you’d agree. I’d like to thank them for taking the time to listen to how we do things, what makes us different, and why we’re so proud of the way Green Mop makes a difference by giving all our staff support, respect and reward for the hard work they do. It’s not easy work, and it’s never been more important or more in focus. They’ve kept going, kept working, and kept customers premises clean and safe.
I couldn’t be more proud of them. Well done to the whole Green Mop team, and thank you to Sussex Business Awards, and the sponsors, Loch Associates.
Our lovely General Manager, Olga Surduleac, accepted the award on behalf of Green Mop. Here’s a pic with Zoe Lyons, and the sponsor.
Finalists! Employer of the Year – Sussex Business Awards 2021
We are delighted to be Finalists for the Employer of the Year category at this year’s Sussex Business Awards.
It’s wonderful to be recognised as a business that is focussed on its employees. The excellent work that the whole team has continued to do in order to keep other businesses open and safe for their employees is magnificent.
Kindness from customers
Our very lovely customers, Octopus Energy, left a kind note of appreciation for our cleaning team, Maria and Sian. They also left them gifts of flowers, chocolates and biscuits.
Octopus had had a bit of a party, and it was a little bit messy. Our team sorted it all out, and left things clean and tidy for them.
It is always greatly appreciated when notes of thanks are left for the hard working cleaning teams. The treats are a generous sign of customer appreciation, and I know it means a lot to Maria, Sian and the supervising team.
The note read:
To Maria and Sian,
We are very sorry for the mess we left a few weeks ago. We appreciate everything you do to keep our office space clean and tidy, and will tidy up after ourselves better next time.
Please accept these treats to say sorry.
From everyone at Octopus xxxx
Thank you for your kindness Octopus Energy!
SafeContractor accreditation
Green Mop has achieved SafeContractor accreditation.
We already have ISO45001 certification, which is similar. This meant it was straightforward to evidence our commitment to the health and safety of our staff and customers in order to achieve this extra accreditation.
Some of our clients recognise the SafeContractor process, others the ISO ones.
We’re happy to demonstrate our commitment to safety in whatever form our clients require!
ISO Audit success for 2021
We’re delighted to have passed our 2021 ISO audit! We have achieved continued compliance for certification for:
BS EN ISO 9001:2015 Quality Management System
BS EN ISO 14001:2015 Environmental Management System
BS ISO 45001:2018 Occupational Health and Safety System
Our new certificates can be viewed on our Credentials page.
The benefits of continued accreditation are enjoyed by all our customers. Any potential new customer can be reassured of our professional standards.
Thanks, as always, goes to the hard working team at Green Mop.
Green Mop team development
We have promoted two of our Supervisors to be Assistant Managers. Congratulations to Brenda and Silviyia!
They have both been going above and beyond in recent months, and their new job title reflects the work they have been doing for us. They have taken on varied responsibilities and demonstrated a commitment and flexibility in support of our customers and Cleaning Team staff.
Silviyia supports staff out on customer sites each evening, as well as helping Olga in the office during the day with administration.
Brenda works with the morning teams, as well as taking responsibility for logistics of products and equipment.
They both have really varied roles, and they’ve taken on responsibility and are a huge benefit to our team.
Our Supervisors, Assistant Supervisors and Cleaning Team members all work incredibly hard day after day. They’re all fantastic!
Improved quality reporting
We have always provided regular quality check reports for all standard cleaning services. With our new Green Mop smartphone app, the reporting capability is much improved. And the reports seem to be more appreciated by customers in the current climate.
They are useful for office managers working remotely. Regular reports as wells as deep cleaning and sanitising service reports done by on site team can be sent directly to the customers. We have all reports available for our management team to review in the dashboard of our system.
These reports give our customers confidence that our services have been provided to the required standard, as well as for risk assessing and evidence of cleaning regimes in place.