Facility Management

Time to come clean

The story goes, that President John F Kennedy had a conversation with a cleaner when he visited NASA at the height of the Apollo 11 campaign, asking exactly what he was doing. The cleaner’s answer was swift and succinct: “I’m helping put a man on the moon.”

Every organisation needs to safeguard its employees and its reputation by having a clean and well-maintained facility. The cleaner at NASA knew his role and, chances are, things may not have gone as

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