Hard floor burnishing training presents a variety of risks. If operated improperly, rotary floor machines can cause tripping hazards, electric shock, and musculoskeletal disorders. These machines can also cause significant damage to property.

Anyone completing these tasks must be provided with a sufficient understanding of how to protect themselves and others.

Upon taking this online training programme participants will gain an understanding of hard floor burnishing.

This health and safety e-learning course for cleaners and requires no prior subject knowledge or course certification to enroll.

This health and safety online training explore the following information:

• Equipment required for floor burnishing tasks
• How to get started with the work
• Required safety checks
• How to prepare the machine for work
• The method of floor burnishing
• Cleaning and storage of equipment

This online training course is for anyone tasks with completing hard floor burnishing or anyone who oversees them.

Choosing Human Focus for floor polishing e-learning course offers the following benefits:

• RoSPA assured
• Concise yet informative
• Video-based training course
• Interactive course content
• Short quizzes to help retain knowledge

• Fully online
• End of course assessment test

A RoSPA assured certificate will be issued by Human Focus upon completion of this training programme.

• Slips, Trips, and Falls Training
• Risk Assessment for General Office Cleaning
• Risk Assessment Training
• Personal Protective Equipment Training

Floor burnishing refers to polishing the floors at a high speed to generate optimal shine. It is often done after buffing to achieve wet-look shine on the flooring surfaces. Maintaining shiny floors needs more than just sweeping and mopping. Burnishing is considered to be one of the methods to restore the shine of several types of floors such as hardwood, marble, or tile floors.

Depending on the amount of foot traffic, it is recommended to burnish floors once a week to eliminate any dust or debris tracked inside of the workplace or other environment.

This is the best method to clean and prevent floors from dust or damage. But if you wish to clean daily, then the best practice to prevent floors from any kind of scratches or dulling of the surface is by dry and wet mopping.

The key thing to see when selecting a new floor burnishing is the speed of the brush in revolution per minute (RPM). Burnishers function at different speeds contingent on the kind of floor. A slow speed is considered 150 to 300 RPM, while a high speed is between 300 and 450RPM and an ultra-high speed is between 1500 and 2500 RPM.

Higher speed machines between 300 and 450 RPM are generally better for floor buffing and polishing.

There are a variety of floor pads available for use with rotary floor machines. An industry-standard color-coding system for low-speed floor pads helps bring some logic to the situation. Below are some of the floor pads you should use for burnishing:

• Light Pink – For removing black scuffs marks and restoring the gloss of the floor
• Light Blue – For maintaining shiny harder floor finish
• Green – Used for wet scrubbing or cleaning
• Red – Best known for spray cleaning
• Black – Used for heavy-duty wet stripping of polish