Cleaning safety precautions
When cleaning stains, debris, dirt, cleaning safety precautions should be followed. When you look around the house, you will likely find many commonly used chemical products. They may seem harmless by looking at the bottle, but many of them are dangerous if used improperly. Some chemicals can even react with each other and result in an explosive reaction. For these reasons it is necessary to follow cleaning safety precautions.Cleaning safety precautions in detail
Many of the cleaning products are flammable. If you combine this property with the low flashpoint of for example olefin carpet (note: many berber carpets are made out of olefin), it is obvious that using a highly flammable cleaning product with a low flash point of the carpet fiber can turn into a disaster.
Some cleaning products are toxic and require a lot of ventilation. It would be a very bad idea to use for example ammonia for cleaning a large spot in the basement.
Some products can be hazardous. For example, bleach salts can cause skin irritation or skin allergy. For these reasons, it would not be a good choice to use bleach to clean carpet in kid's room. Bleach should never be used to clean a saxony carpet. Saxony carpets have a dense and thick pile, and washing bleach out of the fiber would be very hard. Bleach will also destroy specialty colorful and decorative carpets such as Persian carpet and Kashmir carpet.
Cleaning safety checklist
The following is a list of some basic cleaning safety precautions:
- Stain removal chemicals should always be kept out of reach of children.
- Stain removal chemicals should never be stored together with food products.
- All label instructions, directions, and warnings should be read before use.
- Chemicals must be stored in their original containers. This helps to keep label instructions available in case of an accident.
- All chemicals and stain removal products must be used according to manufacturer's instructions (provided on the label).
- Avoid getting the carpeting chemicals on your skin. Use gloves. Some chemicals are easily absorbed.
- Cleaning chemicals should be used in a well-ventilated area.
- Chemicals should never be used near an open flame or electrical outlet.
- Containers should be closed and sealed (so that fumes can't escape).
- Stain removal and cleaning materials should never be mixed together (for example bleach and ammonia mixed together form toxic fumes).