Since 2001, the Simon Institute has been honoring cleaning workers with the Outstanding Cleaning Worker Award during a banquet award dinner. LAHH honored their first outstanding cleaning worker in 2012, Bryan Cosajay, at the Simon Institute Symposium in New Orleans, Louisiana. Each year as the award banquet got under way, Mr. John Walker would remind us all that are roughly 2.5 million cleaning workers who were going to work and performing simple tasks that make a difference in the lives of so many people the next morning. The Simon Institute has recognized from the beginning the importance of each person in the cleaning industry and included in their Philosophy of Cleaning, “Treat cleaning workers as first class citizens.” This recognition is something that Nancy and Guido identified with when starting LAHH. During the pandemic, we have seen so many cleaning workers continuing to work and change the way they clean to meet CDC and public health guidelines and keep people safe.

There will not be Simon Institute Symposium this year due to the pandemic, but we could not pass up the opportunity to say “Thank you” and “We love you” to our employees with disabilities who are Outstanding Cleaning Workers!

Here are some of our previous winners!