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A Guide to Prescriptive Cleaning

FEBRUARY 1, 2016 ISSUE #3

WAXIE Makes Contribution

to Simon Institute
Standards Development
By Paul Condie

WAXIE Sanitary Supply is pleased to announce it has made a substantial contribution

to developing ANSI standards in the jan/san industry. The contribution was presented
to the Simon Institute (SI). SI is the accredited developer of standards for the custodial,
janitorial and housekeeping industry. The contribution was presented by Charles Wax
and Rick Hazard on behalf of WAXIE to the Simon Institute leadership Paul Condie,
President; Renae Walker,Treasurer and Jim Ginnaty, Chairman of the Standards Writing
Committee. At the presentation Rick Hazard commented that WAXIE has long promoted
improved cleaning standards and professionalism in the cleaning industry. We see this
contribution as another step in our continuing efforts in improving the jan/san industry,
and doing so through the development of standards will have a lasting effect.
WAXIE Sanitary Supply is Americas largest family-owned distributor of sanitary
maintenance supplies. They are an industry leader in the distribution of quality cleaning
chemicals, equipment, disposables, and accessories to the building service contractor, school,
hospitality, healthcare, military, government, industrial, and retail markets. Headquartered
in San Diego, California the company consists of over 800 dedicated professionals working
out of Inventory Centers servicing the western United States including California, Arizona,
Nevada, Utah, Idaho, Oregon, Washington, Colorado and Alaska.
The Simon Institute was founded in 2001 by the Boeing Company to benchmark
best practices in facility cleaning. The Boeing Company sponsored a symposium at their
global headquarters in Puget Sound including events in the largest building in the world
(according to the Guinness Book of world records) Boeing utilized the symposium
to fulfill requirements of Malcolm Baldridge Quality award. At that first symposium
Boeing documented that their cleaning process was ISO 9001 compliant and satisfied
requirements for quality control in the aerospace manufacturing segment. Following the
Boeing sponsored symposium other participants voted to continue the benchmarking
best practices project. The following year it was sponsored by the University of Texas
at Austin. The University of Massachusetts at Amherst sponsored the following years
program in 2003 and in 2004 GMI, a San Diego based BSC, sponsored symposium. In
2006 the symposiums name was changed and it became the Simon Institute, a not for
profit organization, dedicated to improving facility cleaning operation standards. In 2014
the Simon Institute was accredited by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI)
as the standards developer (ASD) for the custodial, janitorial and housekeeping industry.
The Waxie donation is to support the first SI standards project BSR SI-0001 Standard to
improve the safety of chemical cleaning handlers in facilities.
For More Information Contact: Paul Condie
(801) 531-6800 www.simoninstitute.org

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