Do You Think I Should Quit My Job, And Then Report The Company For Not Using Cleaning Products Correctly?

[Cindy1302]

I've been working for a commercial cleaning company for a year. The disinfectant we use is called alpha hp. The first time I was trained, the guy who was training me just sprayed it on the bathroom counter, the sinks, and toilets, and then would do things like empty the trash. Restock the paper towels and toilet paper, and sweepso it may have been 5 minutes, and then he wiped it away. On the desks and stuff "we were cleaning a bank" he would just spray some alpha hp on a rage, and wipe the desk. I asked if I need to wait 5 minutes so it has a chance to disinfect. He just said that the disinfect stays on for 5 minutes after wiling it anyways. I don't think it stays on for 5 minutes. Mote like 2. The second guy who trained me was way more thorough. He sprayed a lot more of the surfaces, and he said that ideally you should give the disinfect 10 minutes to work before you wipe it, but I can do 5 minutes. I can easily do 10 minutes, but he's training people to do 5 minutes. I just looked on the bottle and it says give it 10 mins ro disinfect, and 5 minutes to sanitize so he was just sanitizing things. When he was wiping the light switches and door knows down, he would just wipe it, and ge said we are to just sanitize the light switches and doorknobs, and we don't have to wait. So don't these practices seem kind of dangerous, especially during a pandemic? Like I said, I could do it my own way, but they are training people to use the products incorrectly. Also, at all the places I clean, I clean a breakdown where people eat, so it probably requires to sit on a surface longer.

[scorpiojo]

https://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Family/Question1835589.html

[Hazlinny]

Why must you always be wanting to report someone? Get on with your own work - spray or not to spray that is the question!

[Buenchico]

I refer you to my answer here: 
https://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Family/Question1843401.html

You seem to have a psychological obsession with cleanliness.  (Perhaps that's because you appear to live in the country which came up with the idea of having telephone sanitisers, which research has shown to be totally unnecessary?).  The reality is that, unless you're working in a medical environment, there are very few cleaning jobs which can't be effectively completed with a quick wipe over with nothing more than a damp cloth.  (i.e. most cleaning products simply aren't needed at all; they only exist because their manufacturers con people into thinking that they ought to use them).

Just do your job the best that you can and leave it to others to worry (or, hopefully, not to worry at all) about the efficacy of the cleaning products that are being used.

[calmck]

Cindy have you re read any of your posts? They all seem to start "Should I report". Have you nothing better to do than find fault with the people around you and want to report them. Has anyone become I'll or died because someone is not cleaning something properly. Just live your life and try to stop worrying 

[Peter Pedant]

this is Plan A

dont do plan A - the result is, the report will not be acted on AND you wont have a job.

plan A - is bad