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Angela Brown: Slipping and falling while cleaning a shower.
That is a huge issue and we're going to talk about that today.
Hi there. I'm Angela brown and this is Ask A House Cleaner.
This is a show where you get to ask a house cleaning question,
and I get to help you find an answer.
Now, today's show is brought to us by MyCleaningConnection.com
and there is a whole section on different
types of shoes that you can wear while you're cleaning that will lend to the maximum amount
of support and have rubber soles on them that will keep you from slipping
while you're cleaning your shower.
But here's a question from our house cleaner, who has this question.
Julia: Hey, Angela, this is Julia.
I work with a cleaning company and love your podcast, enjoy listening to all your little
tips and tidbits.
I just have a quick question that we've run into the past several months.
Some of our women have been slipping and falling when cleaning showers and tubs.
Obviously, this is a huge safety issue.
I was wondering if you have any tips both for getting in and out of the showers and
tubs, and also for a while we're actually standing in them and cleaning.
Thank you so much.
Angela Brown: All right.
So when we talk about slipping and falling in a shower, there are a couple of different
things that are going on.
Now, by experience, I have experienced all of these things, all right?
The very first one is how tired are you while you're cleaning?
Because as a house cleaner, we use a lot of physical energy.
So, if you're cleaning houses and you're at the end of the day and you're really tired,
when you get inside a shower, you should go on red alert, you should start paying extra
attention because this is a slippery area, and I could slip and fall.
So, you don't want to be tired, and sloppy, and not paying attention
because you could slip and fall.
Now, I've done this before where I'm down scrubbing the corner of the shower and there's
a soap dish that's hanging on the side of the wall.
As I come up without paying attention, I'll bang my head on that soap dish.
And I'm like, "Whoa."
Little stars go around my head, and I'm, "I shouldn't have done that."
You want to make sure that you know where stuff is around you.
You want to be situationally aware.
So, if there is water on the shower floor, you want to make sure that you're aware of
that before you step in.
Now, when you're cleaning the shower, my recommendation is that you do it with tennis shoes on,
because the tennis shoes, while they have great support for your back, they also have rubber soles.
And so, it will grip the bottom of that floor plate of the shower to keep you from slipping.
Now, in my company, we do wear shoe covers but when we climb in the shower, we take them
off so that we don't slip around because we don't want something between us
and that hard rubber sole.
That rubber sole is going to ground us to the fiberglass at the bottom of the shower
plate so that we don't slip and fall.
Or if it's ceramic tile in a great big fancy house, we want to make we want to make sure
that we don't slip on that.
So, the rubber soles of your shoes will keep you from slipping, okay?
Another thing that I might recommend is that if you are having a fumbling sort of day,
and as women, we have about one of these days a month where we pick up something and it
falls out of our hands mysteriously.
Or we bump into walls that we don't normally bump into.
Or we dropped something and break something.
We're, super clumsy, and it's a very natural thing.
Most women go through it one day, a month.
When I start out that day, and I'm like, "Oh, today's my clumsy day."
Then I would ask someone else on my team.
"Hey, can you get the showers for me?
I'm super clumsy today, and I'll probably fall through the shower wall and break it."
Then on the day that they have where they're clumsy, they say,
"Hey, can you swap me for the showers?"
I'm like, "No problem."
You have to be looking out for each other if you work in teams.
If you work by yourself, you got to be super careful because if an employee slips and falls,
as the employer, you do have a liability issue.
And you don't want to fall and crack your spine.
But we are inside showers and if the customer is lucky enough to have a shower head on a
hose, we're going to be spraying the inside of the shower wall to wash down all of the
stuff we've just coated on the walls, to get out all the mold, and the soap scum, and all that stuff.
So, we are going to be wetting the shower down and we want to make sure that we
don't slip and fall.
Now, after the shower is clean, while you're driving the walls and you're polishing the
hardware that's in there, you want to make sure that you take two white clothes and I
put them on the shower floor.
And I stand on top of those clothes now because everything else in the shower around me is
clean, and I'm doing my last white through of the shower so that I can climb out of the shower.
And with the towels that are on the floor, I will wipe up the floor with those.
Those go in my bucket and the shower is clean.
I was safe.
The shower was safe.
Everything looks brand new, and it's shiny and polished and all that stuff.
But if you have an accident in a shower, that is a hazard for everyone.
Now, the homeowner is not responsible if you slip and fall while you're cleaning.
You would think that their homeowners insurance or something would cover that.
But as a paid employee, a paid person coming into their home, that's what your insurance
and your workman's comp covers.
You are responsible for your own safety inside a customer's home.
So, my suggestion to you is pay attention.
And as a house cleaner, easy to zone out.
It's easy.
So, my suggestion is come back to the present moment and do things
that will snap you back to awareness.
Because if you go off on a tangent and you go into a zone, you're going to waste a lot
of time and you're not paying attention.
So, you have to be on high alert and showers and bathtubs and those big bathtubs that you
have to climb inside, not everybody is physically capable of climbing inside a shower.
And so you have to sit on the edge of the shower, lift up your legs, swing them around
and push yourself up so that now you're in those great big bathtubs without trying to
leap over it in a single bound.
You have to work smart, not hard.
But you have to pay attention because if you slip and fall, that is your responsibility.
So, don't slip and fall by all standards.
I want you to be safe, but I want you to use your head and I want you to stay on high alert.
All right, that's my two cents for today. Until we meet again,
leave the world a cleaner place than when you found it.
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