Monday, May 11, 2009

T.A.C.T. (Temperature, Agitation, Chemical concentration, Time)


My part time job gave me a hidden knowledge which I’ve never thought about before.
Currently, I am working as a custodian in BYU campus. As I got my part time job which is cleaning, I didn’t think about any elements of cleaning. Cleaning..... What an easy and routine job?? Who doesn’t even know how to clean something? However, when my supervisor explained four elements of cleaning T. A. C. T. at a meeting, I’ve realized that I can be more effective in cleaning by knowing the relationships of four elements.
First one is temperature. Each cleaning job has the best temperature to be worked out. Let’s think about washing hair. Warm temperature of water should work better. Why do you think that way?
Second one is agitation. By agitating, cleaning works better. When you wash your hair, do you agitate your hair with your hands? Why do you do that instead of leaving your hair with shampoo on it?
Third one is chemical concentration. Do you like thick shampoo or watery shampoo? If we use thick shampoo, we don’t need to use a lot of it whenever we wash our hair.
Forth one is time. How long do you leave your hair with shampoo on it? Should we leave it for 30 second or 10 minutes?

These four elements are all connected each other and very important in cleaning. We don’t have to use all four elements, but if then, we probably can’t clean effectively. However, if we understand the connection of those four elements, we can be very effective in cleaning. Using thick chemical probably reduce time and extra agitation. Also, if our hair is really dirty, should we wash it twice or just leave our hair with shampoo for more time? We probably leave our hair for a little while and can have same result of washing it twice.

Learning these for elements of cleaning gave me an effectiveness of cleaning. It’s just my part time job, but whenever I clean something, I always think how I can be more effective now. I can be more effective now!

2 comments:

  1. Very interesting. I hope you dont work in the mornings because then all you would think about is the TACT and that would not be very exciting. maybe you should make TACT t-shirts?

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  2. It is so good to learn from your job no matter what kind of job it is. But I still hate working in the Cougareat....

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