The janitorial services company that provides their services for your medical office building cleaning company needs protection concerning dangerous working conditions, being in close contact with fellow employees and possibly contracting a contagious illness and unsafe working areas where specific equipment requires special training to operate. Ask yourself these questions about the workplace and your employees:

• Is the workplace or the process hazardous?
• Are materials or equipment the employees use more apt to make them ill or cause injuries from doing the work?
• Would onsite occupational health employees be practical with a small number of workers or would offsite occupational health employees be more practical?
• Have you ever checked closely to see if the entire working area is safe for the medical office building cleaning employees?

If your operation hires many janitorial employees, you would need an Occupational Health Delivery System (OHDS) that would work onsite. They need to be onsite whenever the janitorial employees are working. The Occupational Health Professionals (OHP’s) are there to help you discover the dangers of injury and possible contagious illness in your workplace.

Always be sure your OHDS is abiding by the U. S. Government rules that are carried out by the Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA) and possibly some state requirements. A registered nurse or certified medical doctor could help with this review.