Reduce the Risk: How to Keep Your Office Clean and Sanitary During a Pandemic

With coronavirus still raging, and the threat of COVID-19 infections increasing at an alarming rate, it's crucial to keep your office as clean and sanitary as possible. Infections in the workplace affect everyone—from employees and staff to the customers you serve. Unfortunately, many business owners don't know how to practice proper sanitizing procedures. If you're concerned about germs in the workplace, read the information provided below. This information will help you to ensure a clean and sanitary office. 

1. Hire a Disinfecting Service

During the current pandemic, your office space should be as sanitary as possible. One way to ensure that is to hire a commercial disinfecting service. Ordinary cleaning will remove dirt and most germs, but it won't get the deep-down sanitizing action you need right now. That's where a commercial disinfecting service comes into the picture. A disinfecting service will sanitize your entire office, including, the hard-to-clean surfaces. Best of all, they'll use hospital-grade disinfectants, so you know your office is safe. 

2. Provide Sanitizing Supplies

If you want to maintain a safe and sanitary environment for your office staff, be sure to provide sanitizing supplies. You may already have cleaning supplies in your office, but that's not enough right now. Your office needs to be stocked with disinfectant cleaners designed to kill the coronavirus. You should also supply disinfectant wipes in break rooms and restroom facilities. It's also important that you color-code any cleaning cloths you use in the office. That way, you have designated cleaning cloths for restrooms and break rooms. 

3. Ensure Proper Training

If you want to ensure the health and safety of your employees and customers, you need to provide proper training on various cleaning methods. They might not be doing the main office cleaning and sanitizing but they will be cleaning up after themselves throughout the day. To avoid contamination and infection, your employees should know how to clean effectively. One important step is for your employees to wipe surfaces in one direction. Most people wipe surfaces using a back and forth, or circular motion. Unfortunately, those methods simply spread the germs around. Instead, your employees should wipe surfaces in one direction only. 

4. Enforce Safety Protocol

Finally, when it comes to protecting your employees and customers, you need to enforce safety protocol. This is especially important where restroom use is concerned. Place signs in visible locations to remind employees of the need for frequent hand washing. Also, your employees should be encouraged to wear proper face coverings during office hours, especially in enclosed areas of the office.

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