Would It Be Wrong If I Trained The New Hire How I Was Trained?

[Cindy1302]

I've worked for a commercial cleaning company for a year and a half. My boss just gave me a raise, and I'll be training the new Hire on Monday. The dilemma is, we use alpha hp. The bottle says to disinfect surfaces, you must leave it wet for 10 mins. I was trained to let it sit for just 5 mins. We also use the disinfectant on the door handles and light switches. I was trained to just spray some disinfectant onto a rag, and just quickly wipe down those. My trainer said that by doing that, I am just sanitizing them, so it only has to sit for 3 minutes. I'm guessing if you wipe it down, then the disinfectant would probably sit for 3 mins before it dries. I just feel like the right thing to do is just train the new hire to make sure the disinfectant sits for 10 mins on everything, but I feel that would be tedious walking around, and making sure all the door handle and light switches are staying wet for 10 mins. I kinda of just wanna train the way I was trained.

[Buenchico]

Unless you're cleaning in a hospital setting (or similar), there's no reason to leave Alpha-HP on a surface for longer than 5 minutes. The 10 minute recommendation only applies to dealing with MRSA and VRE. Roughly a third of all people are carrying MRSA around with them all the anyway (usually in their noses) and it's almost always totally harmless; it's only in hospitals (etc) where the presence of MRSA can present a problem. Similarly many people have enterococci (either the 'regular' type or VRE) in their bowels and it does them absolutely no harm whatsoever; once again it's only in hospital settings where VRE can be a risk to patients.

If you're not working in a hospital setting, so that you don't have to worry unduly about MRSA or VSE, the recommended surface contact time for Alpha-HP is never more than 5 minutes. (For example, it's 5 minutes for hepatitis but only 1 minute for HIV). So there would seem to be little, if anything at all, wrong with the training that you've been given. Indeed, other than when you're cleaning in a restroom, it's highly unlikely that anything you apply Alpha-HP to needs any contact time exceeding 1 minute, so you might actually be leaving it on some surfaces for longer than is necessary.

[1ozzy]

A feeling of DÉJÀ VU ?
Previous posts would suggest this.