Quality Care’s Snow Operations team lives, eats, and breathes snow. It’s a year-round obsession for them: ordering salt, readying equipment, checking clients’ snow plans, and then responding to and reviewing each and every snow or ice event. What do these pros wish we knew about snow? It’s that preparing for the winter season can make everyone safer.
WE KEEP OUR EYES ON THE SNOW
In the Midwest, snow can arrive any time. The key to our team’s success and the safety of our clients starts well before the snow or ice event. Quality Care has an 8-step program for snow management that emphasizes training as well as pre-season site inspection and snow planning. Our experts will do a walk-around with our service partners and the client’s site managers, taking notes and pictures. This pre-season inspection identifies site-specific safety issues, storage capacity, and removal priorities. Each site gets a custom map that includes these spots, identifies target areas where ice might form, and includes notes about local ordinances. Then, before weather arrives, the team returns to the site to add high-visibility stakes to curbs and corners to make navigating easier for plow operators.
FROM SNOW WORRIES TO NO WORRIES
Team Quality Care makes every effort to get down to dry surfaces with every snow and ice event. Services include snow plowing, sidewalk managements, de-icing, and snow hauling. These high standards mean the crews put in long hours. They work sites multiple times during snow and ice events, prioritizing high traffic areas, walkways, exits, and emergency access. Then, as the weather winds down, the team’s efforts turn to finishing touches, going curb to curb and edge to edge, getting all the crumbs taken care of.
Quality Care’s work doesn’t stop there. Before, during, and after the snow event, our team will document the condition of your property, using our industry-leading, data-driven, cloud-based system. The report is then sent to you with a snow plan. We then audit the performance of our team with four levels of review, including an external audit. All this information is communicated to you in a timely and thorough manner.
Our efforts are supported back at the maintenance shop by trained professionals who keep our equipment maintained and operating 24/7. Team Quality Care’s priority is safety: Safety for our team and safety for our clients. The endless planning and rigorous preparation serve one purpose: To make every snow season is a safe one.
