First Aid Kits Are Important!

Do you have a First Aid kit in your home? When was the last time you checked to see if it has anything useful in it? Are the contents of your kit out of date? Does it actually have items in it that would be useful to you in case of an emergency?

Safety First!

Uplift Cleaning Company believes strongly that safety comes first. It is important in the workplace for us every day. In our homes, a well-stocked First Aid kit has come in handy many times. 

Having some basic First Aid supplies and knowing how to use them might prevent an inconvenient or small incident from turning into a trip to Urgent Care or the Emergency Department. 

Everyone Is Different

First Aid kits come in many different configurations. They can be a small personal one with some cleaning wipes and bandages for someone if they get a minor injury while out hiking, to a full workplace First Aid kit for up to fifty people! 

There are people with specific medical conditions who might want to have things in their First Aid kit that address their particular needs. We are definitely not Doctors or Pharmacists and don’t even play them on TV as actors, so if you or your family members live with an illness, you might want to talk to a Pharmacist about what you need to have for First Aid in your home.

In addition, did you know that there is a course called First Aid for Dogs and Cats from the Red Cross? Your interest may be to get training in the event that your pet has an emergency!

Training For First Aid

Getting lifesaving training, like CPR and First Aid training, may be required for work. But even if it isn’t, taking the opportunity to get some training for your personal life might be a good idea for you.

We are fortunate in the Niagara region that we have training providers located in our area that can do the First Aid and CPR training with us. 

Providers such as St. John Ambulance and Heart Niagara make the training available without having to travel out of our region.

Check Your Supplies!

The best time to check your emergency supplies is, of course, before you have an emergency. When was the last time you found your First Aid kit to make sure you could locate it, and checked to see if it was still usable? It would only take a few minutes to go looking for it and inspect what is inside. This could be a few minutes today that prevents a big issue later on.

Uplift Cleaning Company is an independent cleaning business based in Fort Erie, providing service throughout the Niagara region. We provide residential and commercial cleaning services. 

Preparing For Thanksgiving In The Niagara Region

Getting ready for Thanksgiving can be stressful. With some planning it can be easier to make it a great experience for everyone!

Plan Ahead

What do you need to make your Thanksgiving a huge success? Is it important to get a certain size or type of turkey that could be difficult to get at the last moment? Are you particular about your cranberry sauce? Will you have lots of people visiting your home for Thanksgiving dinner? All of this can be handled by planning ahead.

Getting the things you need to make your Thanksgiving a success ahead of time is one way to help make it easier for you!

Have A Clean Home

Of course, having a clean home for Thanksgiving is important! There is still time to break the jobs down so it is a few rooms at a time, if that’s what you need to do, so it is a manageable job for you or your family. 

If you have a dining room table like we have, with removable leaves, we can sympathize with you that your dining room may feel like it shrank when the table is fully extended. We have found that cleaning up the dining room can help, clearing more space at both ends of the table especially, so the fully extended table won’t make the room seem cramped.

An Analog Thanksgiving!

Do you remember a time when people didn’t have a phone or tablet in front of them most of the time? We do and we think that was perhaps a better time for humanity. 

Having a Thanksgiving with genuine communication and spending quality time together might be easier by limiting or banning phones and tablets for the day. We understand if that is not possible for everyone, but most people should be able to put their phone away and share a meaningful moment with another person without a device between them!

Guest Expectations

Thanksgiving is one of those times each year where we can be with people we usually don’t see often. It would be good if everyone gets along and avoids conflict for the benefit of the group. 

We suggest that to make for a peaceful day, the host could ask that their guests make sure everyone gets caught up on the important events they have to share with each other. Focus on bringing us together as a group, sharing our victories and setbacks. By doing this, we can hopefully avoid having conversation drifting to polarizing topics like politics or other things that we individually can’t do much about on Thanksgiving. 

By encouraging your guests to catch up with each other - perhaps making it a phone and tablet-free environment - we can put our devices down, talk to each other respectfully, and have a great time together.

Prepare To Have A Great Time!

Planning your Thanksgiving so it (mostly) goes as you want it means that you can get ready for an experience that is more relaxed and less chaotic. This could result in you and your family and friends having a great time!

Uplift Cleaning Company is an independent cleaning business based in Fort Erie, providing service throughout the Niagara region. We provide residential and commercial cleaning services. 

Does Uplift Cleaning Company Send Subcontractors To Your Home?

We have heard about the practice of a cleaning company outsourced or enhancing their staffing to subcontractors. Basically what happens is that you hire a cleaning company and they send people who actually work for another company to your home to do the cleaning. 

Does Uplift Cleaning Company Do this?

No, we don’t. All of our cleaners are employees.

Why?

Uplift Cleaning Company hires all our cleaners as employees. There are benefits to doing this, such as:

Uniform Requirement

Our cleaners are required to meet our uniform policy requirements. We want you to encounter our professional, neat, skilled cleaners in your home, with your home benefiting from our attention to detail and thorough cleaning practices.

Also, because all of our cleaners are uniformed in the field, you can rest assured that the cleaners who show up to clean your home are who they say they are.

By the way, we don’t have a merchandise shop, so our business shirts are not available to the public. They are exclusive for use by our current employees only.

Health and Safety Standards

Our cleaners are subject to the health and safety standards of Uplift Cleaning Company. We have a manual for how things are supposed to work, which includes health and safety policies that comply with current applicable legislation. 

Safety is number one for us, where we do our jobs with the safety of our clients and workers in mind everywhere we go and for everything we do!

Training

We train our cleaners to work the way we want them to and to use the products we want them to use. By having employees, we ensure that you encounter professionals who do the job right! 

We Know Them

Having someone come to your home to do work there can be worrying, especially if it is someone you haven’t met before. 

Uplift Cleaning Company only sends people that we would trust to work alone in our homes to your home, people who have passed a Vulnerable Sector Background check, and who we have trained to follow our systems for cleaning and professional conduct in the workplace.

The Uplift Advantage!

By having our own employees as cleaners, in addition to the usage of our own bespoke software for managing checklists and keeping track of our clients, we have many advantages that other cleaning companies don’t have. 

Perhaps other businesses have figured out how to do it, but using contractors can lead to issues for a business that Uplift Cleaning Company doesn’t want to deal with. We can operate in compliance with labour laws, health and safety legislation, and general decency with employees, doing things how we do it.

Uplift Cleaning Company is an independent cleaning business based in Fort Erie, providing service throughout the Niagara region. We provide residential and commercial cleaning services.