TRSA administers quantitative, third-party certification programs for linen, uniform and facility services companies and their management teams that build confidence in their processes and outcomes.
Hygienically Clean Certifications | Clean Green Certification | Safety & Health Certification | Individual Programs | Media & In the News
Linen, uniform and facility services customers are demanding increased professionalism, sustainability and cleanliness. Certification demonstrates your commitment to documenting and implementing best management practices that ensure your production processes and products are cost-effectively supplied, laundered and maintained while minimizing environmental impact, reducing waste and controlling infection. Getting certified reflects positively on laundry management capabilities, recognizes substantial efforts and builds public reputation and credibility.
Hygienically Clean Certifications
Hygienically Clean certifications recognize your plant’s commitment to cleanliness through facility inspections, validation of processes and third-party, quantified microbiological testing.
Our certification verifies that processes used in your facility meet appropriate hygienically clean standards and Best Management Practices (BMPs) across all laundry customer market segments.
Hygienically Clean Healthcare
This certification reflects laundries’ commitment to best management practices (BMPs) in laundering as verified by third-party inspection and their capability to produce hygienically clean textiles as quantified by ongoing microbial testing. A laundry’s dedication to compliance and processing healthcare linens and garments using BMPs as described in its quality assurance documentation (QA) is confirmed. QA is the focus of inspectors’ evaluation of critical control points to minimize risk.
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Hygienically Clean Food Safety
This certification reflects laundries’ commitment to best management practices (BMPs) in laundering as verified by inspection and their capability to produce hygienically clean textiles as quantified by ongoing microbial testing. This certification confirms a laundry’s dedication to compliance and processing healthcare linens and garments using BMPs as described in its quality assurance documentation (QA). QA is the focus of inspectors’ evaluation of critical control points to minimize risk. This certification includes standards appropriate for laundering, maintaining and servicing linens and garments products for businesses where food is manufactured, processed or handled. These markets include animal processing, dairy, fruit/vegetable, bakery, grain and other food and beverage segments.
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Hygienically Clean Food Service
This certification recognizes textile services operations supplying the restaurant industry and other food service establishments. Certified laundries commit to cleanliness through third-party, quantified biological testing and inspection. This process eliminates subjectivity by focusing on outcomes and results that verify textiles cleaned in these facilities meet appropriate hygienically clean standards and best management practices (BMPs) for servicing full and limited service restaurants, hotels, hospitals, educational institutions and other locations where food is handled and served.
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Hygienically Clean Hospitality
This certification reflects laundries’ commitment to best management practices (BMPs) in laundering as verified by inspection and their capability to produce hygienically clean textiles as quantified by ongoing microbial testing. A laundry’s dedication to compliance and processing healthcare linens and garments using BMPs as described in its quality assurance documentation (QA) is confirmed. QA is the focus of inspectors’ evaluation of critical control points to minimize risk.
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Clean Green Certification
Clean Green certification gives your company a competitive advantage and demonstrates its leadership in your community. More than 170 facilities nationwide have earned this designation, quantifying their commitment to greener, more sustainable operations and business practices. Large-scale laundries earn Clean Green standards by using high-capacity washing, drying and wrinkle-removal equipment that improve efficiency. To obtain the certification, laundries must document water and energy reduction and deploy best management practices (BMPs).
Safety & Health Certification
Safety & Health Certification recognizes linen, uniform and facility services companies that demonstrate commitment to safety and health excellence by voluntary adherence to specific guidelines. The Safety and Health certification is based on a portion of the OSHA Voluntary Protection Program (VPP) STAR certification guidelines. Becoming a certified plant officially recognizes the outstanding efforts of employers and employees who have achieved an exemplary safety and health program.
Individual Programs
Producing Hygienically Clean Textiles e-Learning Course
Producing Hygienically Clean Textiles provides supervisors, managers and other operations employees with a solid understanding of the best management practices (BMPs) for processing hygienically clean textiles (HCT) for healthcare, food safety, hospitality and food service. This interactive, self-paced course is user-friendly with links to videos, checklists and other resources.
Certified Professional Laundry Manager (CPLM)
Certified Professional Laundry Manager (CPLM) distinguishes your accomplished production, plant managers and general managers, providing evidence of their expertise and experience. Earning CPLM represents the culmination of a professional development and certification program that combines traditional classroom instruction with online training to provide 150+ hours of continuous management and production study.
Maintenance Certificate Program
TRSA has partnered with TPC Training, a leader in industrial training and workforce management solutions, to offer a new online program for maintenance tech positions, offering plants a way to advance the experience and training of their plant maintenance crew without taking them out of the plant.
Media & In the News
TRSA promotes the value and benefits of certifications earned by laundries adhering to BMPs and standards enforced by independent inspectors. TRSA promotes the value and benefits of linen, uniform and facility services that enhance businesses, retailers, healthcare facilities, restaurants, government and other organizations’ image while providing cleaner, safer environments for their employees and customers.