A Hospital in Asia Redeploys 189 Mopping Hours to Toilet Cleaning

Repetitive mopping eating into staff time

Public areas of a hospital never stop needing attention. Corridors and common floors take foot traffic from patients, visitors and staff from early morning, and the mopping that keeps them presentable is repetitive, physical and easy to fall behind on.

Before the robot, public area mopping during office hours consumed 189 man hours a month. That time came from the same workforce that handled other labor intensive duties, so every hour spent on floors was an hour not spent elsewhere.

Water was part of the picture too. Average use before the robot ran at 1,800 L a month, and cleaning frequency on the ground and first floors sat at six rounds a day.

Handing the corridors to a cleansing robot

The hospital introduced a cleansing robot in October 2020 with one clear job: take over the repetitive corridor mopping that had filled staff schedules. Floor work moved to the machine, and people moved to the tasks that still needed a person.

Freed time was not left idle. The hours were redeployed to public toilet cleaning, and cleaning frequency on the ground and first floors rose from six to eight times a day.

• October 2020: cleansing robot takes over repetitive corridor mopping
• Staff hours released from public area mopping move to public toilet cleaning
• Cleaning frequency on G/F and 1/F rises from six to eight times a day

Hours moved, frequency raised

The hospital reported that 189 man hours a month, previously spent on public area mopping, were redeployed to public toilet cleaning once the robot took over floor work. That is the headline result, and it describes staff time moved to other work rather than positions removed.

Cleaning frequency on the ground floor and first floor rose from six to eight times per day, giving those public spaces more frequent attention. Average water use before the robot stood at 1,800 L a month.

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