The zone survey: a walk with your cleaners
We walk your site with the people who clean it, follow the flows of product, people and waste, and write the zone plan that your range order is built from.
- Where
- Riyadh and the Eastern Province
- Walked with
- Your cleaning crew and their supervisor
- Produces
- The zone plan and the order list
- Your colours
- Recorded first, kept by default
The zone survey is how a site starts on the Hygienix range. We walk the site with the crew who clean it, map the zones where product, people and waste cross, record the colour scheme already in use, and watch a real clean. The walk produces your zone plan, and the plan produces your order.
- 01 Enquiry
- 02 Zone survey
- 03 Zone plan
- 04 Supply
- 05 At the position
- 06 Verify
- 07 Review
The zone survey: a walk with your cleaners sits at step 2 of from survey to supply. You receive the survey record and a zone map.
Walk it with the cleaner, not the manager
The person who cleans an area knows where the water pools, which guard never comes off, and which brush went missing in March.
A walk with the management team produces a tidier plan and a less true one. So the survey is walked with the crew and their supervisor.
The manager is welcome, and usually learns something.
What we look at, stop by stop
| Stop | What we record | Why it matters |
|---|---|---|
| The chemical store | Every product, its label, where it is used and how it is decanted. | The real chemical list is never the purchase list |
| Each dilution point | How the dose is measured, if it is measured at all. | Most strength findings start here |
| Each zone boundary | Hand basins, gel, boot wash, doors, and who crosses. | Boundaries fail at the door, not in the room |
| Food-contact surfaces | Materials, damage, what cleans them and in what order. | Scratches and cracked joints hold soil no chemical reaches |
| Floors and drains | Floor types, falls, gullies, and what cleans each one. | There is always a drain nobody has a tool for |
| Tool storage | Where every brush, mop and cloth lives between uses. | A scheme without storage documents a violation |
| The cloth route | From use to the laundry and back again. | Colours mix in the washing machine |
| The records | What is written down, where, and by whom. | To an auditor, a clean nobody recorded did not happen |
Five things you hold after the walk
The walk record
Stop by stop, with photographs taken with your permission.
The zone map
The three flows drawn on your own floor plan, with the boundaries where they cross.
The zone plan
Seventeen sections, issued in your name, naming the product, colour, check and dosing unit for each zone.
The findings list
Ranked, each item with an owner and a due date.
The order list
The bill of materials by product and pack, which your first delivery is built from.
From the walk to the first delivery
- 01
Follow the three flows
Product, people and waste. Zone boundaries sit where those three cross, and that is almost never where the wall is. We draw all three on your floor plan during the walk, and that drawing becomes the zone map in the plan.
- 02
Record the colours already in use
Which colours, where they came from, and whether the crew can name them without looking. A scheme the crew already follows is a control that works, so the default is to keep it and write it down.
- 03
Watch one real clean
A method on paper and a method on a Tuesday night are different things. We watch at least one real clean in the zones that matter: how the bucket is made up, how long the sanitiser stays wet, which cloth goes where, and what gets skipped when time runs short. Most of the findings list comes from this part.
- 04
Findings first
The plan is written from the walk and issued in your name. We go through it with you, starting with the findings.
- 05
The first order
The bill of materials becomes your first order, by product and pack. The first delivery arrives with the charts, decals and posters the plan specifies. Where the plan names dispensers or instruments, those are supplied to the positions it sets.
A date packing house in season
A date packing house in the Eastern Province has a sorting hall, a packing room, a cold store, washrooms and a workshop. Sugar soil sticks to everything in season.
The walk starts in the chemical store and finds a sanitiser decanted into an unmarked jerrycan. At the packing room door there is a basin but no soap, and the gel dispenser is empty. Every cloth on site is the same colour. The sorting table frames are aluminium, and the crew has been using a strong degreaser on them. During the evening clean, the crew wipes the packing tables dry straight after spraying.
The plan maps four zones, with the boundary at the packing room door. It sets cloth colours for the packing room, for everywhere else, and for the washroom on its own. The sugar soil gets warm water and a detergent clean before the food-contact sanitiser, with the contact time on a card and a timer on the wall. The aluminium frames go on the material exception list. Soap and gel go at the packing room door, in that order. The unmarked jerrycan leaves the store, and a station chart replaces it.
The packing house holds a walk record with photographs, the zone map with its three flows, the full plan, the findings list, and the order list for its first delivery.
Before you book
Is the survey sold on its own?
No. It is how a site starts on the range, and the plan it produces names Hygienix products.
How long is the walk?
It depends on the size of the site and how many shifts we need to see. Most single sites are walked in one visit, with a return for the night clean if that is where the work happens.
Do you need to see a clean in progress?
Yes. Most findings come from watching one real clean, not from reading the schedule.
Will you take photographs?
Only with your permission, and only for the walk record in your plan.
Can you survey a group of sites?
Yes. The group's colour scheme decision is made once, first. Then each site is walked on its own.
Around the survey
The zone plan
The seventeen sections the walk is written up into.
Read moreYour coloursColour coding
Area or surface: the first question we ask about your scheme.
Read moreFree toolThe zone configurator
Map a first version yourself and bring it to the walk.
Read moreThe rangeFORMULA
The six chemicals your order list is written from.
Read moreITF ConsultHACCP with ITF Consult
The hazard analysis that decides where your checks go.
Read moreITF FMFood facilities with ITF FM
Facility management for food sites, cleaning crews included.
Read morePart of one system
Every division keeps records to the same standard, so the second one you need works the way the first one did.
Book the walk
Tell us the site, the zones you think you have, and when your crew cleans, and we plan the walk around the clean.