Workplace Cleanliness - Collective Inputs

Dear all:

Thanks for all your inputs on how cleanliness can be achieved at workplaces.

Please review the consolidated list below and if you think anything is missing, please add to it as a comment.

This can be a good starting point for us to start individually, collectively and as an organization to drive cleanliness at workplaces.

Ministry of Urban Development

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Inputs on How to Clean your Workplace

1. Introduce awards, monetary benefits for clean work place
2. Beautify the area where people use to throw the garbage, this will refrain people from throwing garbage at that place again
3. Waste must be segregated properly in different bins
4. Put waste paper baskets in every room and a big one outside near the road with USE ME marked prominently
5. Ban chewing pan in all offices (esp Government offices)
6. Every employee should be made responsible for keeping his/her desk clean
7. Dust-bins should be imaginatively and attractively designed, in bright colours, with suitable inscription on them
8. A suitable system of fines and penalties needs to be devised
9. Leaders at all levels must make it a point to speak about it, and set personal examples - not just tokens, at all possible occasions
10. If we see anything(paper, plastic, banana leaf etc.) lying on floor, pick it and throw them in dust bin
11. Special task force should be made which will monitor and educate people in the office premises
12. Each individual responsible for at least one room in the office
13. Empower the admin/housekeeping head to impose fine on staff who litter the ground
14. Every workplace should have a waste disposal mechanism in place
15. Reach your work place 10 minutes ahead of time and clean up our own work place / work bench
16. Use hand driers instead of tissue papers in office washrooms
17. Common lunch place to be allotted where all irrespective of cadres should take lunch and eatables and through away the wastes in one place
18. An ‘Office Cleanliness Manual’ should be created and discussed induction of every new employee
19. Waste printed A4 sheets should be used as rough papers for notes on the back side
20. A poster campaign should be done in office telling people about the pros and cons of keeping their workplace clean more