ISSA Releases Clean Standard for Institutional and Commercial Spaces

Northbrook, IL, April 16, 2015—ISSA, the worldwide cleaning industry association, has released the ISSA Clean Standard: Institutional and Commercial to help facility managers measure and monitor the effectiveness of their cleaning processes.

Built on the success of the ISSA Clean Standard: K-12, the new ISSA Clean Standard applies to general institutional and commercial facilities, such as office buildings, retail stores, hotels, and similar facilities.

The ISSA Clean Standard derives from the ISSA Clean Standard: K-12, issued in October 2013, which is based on extensive independent scientific research, conducted by the Cleaning Industry Research Institute’s (CIRI) Science Advisory Panel, which includes thousands of ATP measurements on high-touch points taken in numerous schools representing multiple geographic and climatic variations.

The ISSA Clean Standard provides simplified “ranges of clean” for three ATP meters that, based on extensive field research, prove to deliver an objective, quantitative component to determine whether a facility is truly clean. 

Licenses are available for third parties to provide training on how to measure cleanliness based on the standard.

The ISSA Clean Standard: Institutional and Commercial and the ISSA Clean Standard: K-12 can be downloaded at www.issa.com/cleanstandard.