Zone Cleaning
There are two common approaches to cleaning a network of facilities of similar size to Coastal Carolina University. Zone Cleaning and Team Cleaning both have their advantages, but we believe Zone Cleaning is the best approach for our needs.
Zone Cleaning is a method of cleaning that employs a staff of individuals who are each assigned a specific wing, floor, building, or "zone." These individuals are responsible for all the tasks associated with their "zone" such as cleaning bathrooms and offices. The alternative to zone cleaning is team cleaning. Team cleaning assigns each staff member a specific task that they are responsible for in all buildings such as vacuuming or dusting. For example, a zone cleaner would be responsible for cleaning the first floor of a building with tasks such as vacuuming, dusting, and emptying trash. A team cleaner would be responsible for vacuuming the floors of the building only and the tasks for the building would each be assigned to a different team member.
Zone cleaning allows our custodians to build meaningful relationships with students, faculty, staff, and visitors who utilize our facilities. By having our staff assigned to specific zones they can take pride and ownership in their respective areas. We pride ourselves on being a department that constantly receives positive phone calls and emails from people across campus to express how much one of our staff members has positively impacted their day-to-day lives through our work. Zone cleaning is the reason most of our staff members are on a first-name basis with the people who use the spaces we clean and help maintain the family atmosphere that CCU is known for.