Why shouldn’t I use the in-house or subcontracted janitorial service already in our building?
February 11, 2012 by Renzo In house janitorial services for normal office buildings are usually supplied by a contractor or in-house employees that are not trained for this type of cleaning / decontamination work. Common janitorial cleaning chemicals, equipment and wax may make the data center look great now – but they will create chemical and physical transformations at microscopic levels causing corrosion, rust, static, overheating and hundreds of other problems leading to eventual downtime.
Since there are static, particulate, network signals and heat sources in the Data Center that can cause disastrous catastrophic loss of uptime to companies, cause fires and Indoor Air Pollution – there are several standards that help keep these environments safe including: ASHRAE, Federal Stan 209e, ISO, NFPA, RFI, HFI and IEST Standards.
Cleaning services in a data center have to be carried out by controlled environment cleaning specialists that understand the data center dynamics and how to decontaminate these areas without causing downtime or microscopic long-term damage. Data Center Cleaners decontaminate (clean) equipment and supplies and their affects on different surfaces, energies and microscopic air particulate using testing instruments and specialized cleaning equipment and chemicals.
No English Communication Skills can be catastrophic – If a cleaning person is not proficient in English – this can lead miscommunication to pushing buttons, EPO switches, unwanted fire suppression release and much more. SET3 condones all races, creeds and nationalities and is an Equal Opportunity Employer – however, proficient English, technical training and problem solving skills are a must for technical and emergency situations in Data Centers. Data Centers have unique dynamics and operations that are not found in normal commercial building applications.
SET3 crews have been expertly trained and certified on how to measure unseen particles to clean, on different types of chemical’s influences on charged/uncharged ESD surfaces and understand the science of static charges – and our technicians have the tools to remove these influences safely. If a janitor cannot understand the science of the unseen, cannot test for accuracy of particle/static removal, doesn’t understand static energy dynamics or how equipment and power in a data center works – they are missing the very basics of what is needed to clean your environment. There are hundreds of factors that a Data Center Cleaning Technician must be trained in – or they can cause downtime.
