Are There Standards In The Residential Cleaning Industry?

If you are looking for a residential cleaner in the Niagara region, have you ever wondered if there are any regulatory bodies or standards that these cleaning businesses you are choosing from need to follow to call themselves residential cleaners?

Not That We Know Of!

Unfortunately, we don’t know of any standards that a person or company would have to meet in order to call themselves residential cleaners. We don’t mean to gate-keep the cleaning industry at all here. It just seems to us that people seeking cleaning services have to navigate a wild-west of people and companies offering cleaning services without regulation making sure they are competent and operating a legitimate business.

There are some associations in Canada for the cleaning industry who are attempting to make things more legitimate and somewhat regulated, but any membership, participation with, or regulation by these organizations is entirely voluntary. There really  is no standard for a cleaning business to meet if they want to present themselves as a cleaning business.

Some Basic Issues

There are some basic issues with finding a cleaning company to clean your home that goes beyond standards for the cleaning industry specifically. We have noticed that there may be people operating as a business on the side, not as a registered business, where that can present a variety of problems to the person offering the services and can be an issue for you especially if the cleaner gets injured in your home.

Unlike Uplift Cleaning Company, cleaning businesses you are looking at may not have staff who are Vulnerable Sector Checked. We like to think that you should at least know that nobody we bring to your home has a criminal record. There is no requirement for this, but we do it for our client’s peace of mind.

Matters as simple as the cleaning business having business insurance, being registered as a business operating in Ontario, having WSIB for the workers, and having a human resources manual for the employees to follow, are not necessarily things you get with all the choices you have out there.

Ask Questions!

We invite you to ask us questions about our business, if you are interested in hiring us to do residential or office cleaning, or even for dog waste removal (poop scooping)! 

Here are some questions you might want to ask a cleaning business you are considering:

• Are you registered to operate as a business in Ontario?

• Do you have business liability insurance?

• Are your workers Vulnerable Sector Checked?

• Do you have a human resources manual?

• Do your labour practices comply with the Employment Standards Act?

• Do you have a first aid kit in your work vehicle?

• What happens if one of your employees gets injured in my home or office?

• Do you have professional standards for your workers to practice at work?

Choose Uplift Cleaning Company!

Uplift Cleaning Company may be a great choice for your residential and office cleaning needs! 

We are a registered business, with insurance, WSIB, and our crew receive all of the necessary training to be professional cleaners who conduct themselves competently and appropriately on the job, and we have dedicated customer service! 

If you want to see our human resources handbook that all new employees have to review before they go to anyone’s home to clean for us, you can take a look at that if you want to! We are a professional cleaning business, serious about providing our clients with excellent service, and doing so while operating a legitimate business that complies with all applicable legislation.