Green Janitorial Firms Need To Be Certified Through An Independent Third Party

December 27, 2009 by Michael Richmond

For those of you in the janitorial world, you probably know the name Green Clean Institute. If you don’t know who the Green Clean Institute is then you should get familiar with them because they are the largest Green Janitorial Certification Firm in the Nation. Green Clean Institute Certified(TM) is also a federal trademark. This proves our commitment to the project because getting a federal trademark is costly and time consuming. Most firms handing out meaningless Green Clean certified awards are little more than product companies who brought you in to learn about their line of products, but not to educate you in an effective program. provided by a download to your computer that you will print off for the student.

I know what you are thinking, but Green Clean Institute does not sell any products and does not run a janitorial service behind the scenes. We are an “Education Only” program that exists to train, certify, and promote your janitorial or cleaning business. When a possible customer of yours wants to “Check you out,” they can call our company or look on our website to find that you are an actual Green Clean certified company.

There are different types of ways your janitorial firm or cleaning company can get certified depending on the size and their commitment to the program. There are three levels of individual certification. The Individual Green Clean Certified is your official document for the small business or those who want to invest in their Green knowledge. Technician is the Level One certification, and designed to educate the student to the basic concepts of Green Clean Institute Certified (GCIC).

The Manager course is the Level Two certification, and designed to educate the student to building requirements for Green Clean Institute Certified (GCIC). Lastly, Executive is the Level Three certification designed to educate the Owners, managers, or Operators of a janitorial firm. All of these courses are two module courses provided by a download to your computer to be printed. Graduates receive the frameable GCIC Executive Green Clean certificate.

Firm certification is the best credential offering a separate Green Clean Institute certificate in the name of your firm as well as certificates for up to six people in your firm. One person will take GCIC Tech 101-102, Mngr 201-202, and Exec 301-302, and up to five workers take only Tech 101-102. It is simple and completed at your location with Fax-In exams. Sign Up and get your download instructions right away, it takes only a few hours to earn your certificates.

The GCI Gold Firm Certification provides for unlimited training of your employees, and includes a marketing package that will saturate the Internet with your firm’s information. Along with the training, your firm will be able to validate that the ideas we have taught are at work in your company. By the way, you should get to know this person since they can also introduce your business to other area Green businesses. In addition to the normal down loadable training, GCI will provide a Green Janitorial Checklist of the critical elements for a full-fledged Green janitorial service. This is a higher level of compliance, and will we do validate each and every Gold certification with a friendly visit from a Certified Green Consultant. Large and progressive firms should step up a higher level of Green compliance and show that Green is a serious effort in the organization.

Also, the unlimited training option, and the Green Janitorial Checklist, our program offers a free Internet marketing program valued at more the $2500. The combination of Gold certification, the Green Janitorial Checklist, and our powerful marketing package makes this offering the top of the line option for any janitorial service seeking to ramp up its status and customer appeal. Keep in mind that Going Green starts with the Indoor Air Quality, and that brings every business back to the cleaning service. This is unavoidable. Being Green certified as a janitorial service will soon be an industry mandate.

If you are interested in getting your janitorial company certified by a legitimate Green certification firm then Green Clean Institute can help. Green Clean Institute is a proficient Green certification firm that believes becoming Green is not bought, but earned. Change is coming in the janitorial community, so don’t let your company be the last to get certified by a Green certification firm.