| Sometimes, owning a small business is not easy | | | | toilet seats, or residue which can get on your |
| especially during a recession or a downturn in the | | | | customer's hands and cause rashes, or even cause a |
| business cycle. It's important to cut costs, but there | | | | potential health risk or respiratory issue with the |
| are some things you just shouldn't cut costs on too | | | | workers that are using the product, as they over |
| much. For instance, you need to make sure your | | | | spray stainless steel equipment or countertops in |
| restrooms, countertops, and premises are completely | | | | areas where there is not such good ventilation. |
| clean. Being sanitarily smart makes a lot of sense, | | | | In fact, you can ask anyone who works for a fire |
| especially considering we are in the midst of swine flu. | | | | department or an ambulance service, and they get |
| Nevertheless, you should be very careful when | | | | called out about once every couple months when an |
| buying cleaning supplies for your company. Often, | | | | employee faints on the job because of cleaning |
| cleaning supply companies sell in bulk, and this allows | | | | chemicals, and improper mixing. If your employees |
| them to sell the cleaning supplies cheaper, because | | | | are mixing your products too strong you are wasting |
| they have not been diluted, and therefore, you don't | | | | cleaning products and you can cost yourself even |
| have to pay for the extra shipping weight. | | | | more money, even without the risks considered. |
| Nonetheless, if you only get the concentrate and | | | | Therefore, I often recommend to my small business |
| your employees are mixing the products on the | | | | clients to be very careful with cleaning chemical |
| premises to the proper dilution, they will often make | | | | salespeople, which try to sell them cleaning products |
| them a little stronger than they should, thinking they | | | | they don't need or in concentrates that are far too |
| will make their cleaning job easier somehow. | | | | strong. Indeed, I hope you will please consider this. |
| This causes many problems, such as discoloration of | | | | |