Keeping your workplace healthy is more important than ever, especially in environments where employees spend significant amounts of time in close proximity. Whether it’s back-to-school or cold and flu season, it’s frustrating to see how quickly illness can spread in your office, cutting into employee morale and productivity. To maintain a healthy workplace, it’s crucial to focus on a janitorial service that understands how to prioritize high-touch surfaces, regular disinfection, and maintaining sanitary conditions. At Royal Building Services, we regularly disinfect and sanitize the buildings we work in to help you keep your customers and employees healthy.
1. We Identify and Focus on High-Touch Surfaces
High-touch surfaces are areas that employees frequently touch throughout the day. These surfaces can harbor germs and viruses, making them prime spots for the spread of illness. Common high-touch surfaces in the workplace include:
Doorknobs and Handles: Every time someone enters or exits a room, they touch a doorknob or handle. These surfaces are touched by many people daily, making them a significant source of germs.
Light Switches: Another frequently touched item, light switches can easily become contaminated, especially in communal areas.
Communal Area Countertops: Whether it’s your breakroom table, a work kitchen or food prep area, or a lobby reception countertop, these areas are notorious for spreading illness.
Shared Office Equipment: Printers, copiers, and telephones are often used by multiple employees. Keyboards and mice in shared workspaces also fall into this category.
Break Room Appliances: Refrigerators, microwaves, coffee makers, and vending machines are touched by many employees, making them high-risk surfaces for spreading germs.
Elevator Buttons: In multi-story office buildings, elevator buttons are touched numerous times a day and should be cleaned frequently.
Hand Rails: Hand rails near stairs or entryways are frequently the first thing people touch when entering your facility.
By identifying these high-touch areas, you can prioritize them for more frequent cleaning and disinfection. We also offer Day Portering services that can be customized for businesses with high traffic or during flu season.
2. We Disinfect Your Office Regularly
Disinfection is one of the most effective ways to prevent the spread of illness in the workplace. Disinfecting involves using chemicals specifically designed to kill germs and viruses on surfaces. We understand the importance of using the right products, following a routine schedule, and proper techniques for workplace disinfection.
We Use the Right Products: Not all cleaning products are created equal. We use EPA-approved disinfectants that are effective against a broad spectrum of germs, viruses and fungi.
We Follow a Routine Schedule: High-touch surfaces should be disinfected multiple times a day, especially during cold and flu season. We’ll help you create a customized cleaning schedule that outlines when and how often these areas will be disinfected.
Proper Technique Matters: When disinfecting, it’s important to allow the product to remain on the surface for the time specified on the label. This ensures that the disinfectant has enough contact time to effectively kill germs. We regularly host training for our employees to ensure they know the proper use of their cleaning supplies.
We Focus on Common Areas: In addition to individual workspaces, we focus heavily on disinfection in common areas such as break rooms, restrooms, and conference rooms. These areas see a lot of foot traffic and are often used by multiple employees.
Keep Your Janitorial Service Provider Informed: If you have had a high incidence of illness in your workplace, let your janitorial service provider know so they can disinfect areas that may typically be wiped down during your normal cleaning schedule.
3. Sanitizing for Ongoing Protection
While disinfection kills germs, sanitizing helps reduce the number of germs on surfaces to a safer level as judged by public health standards. Sanitizing should be part of your commercial cleaning routine to maintain a healthy work environment.
Daily Sanitizing: We will incorporate sanitizing into your regular cleaning schedule. This includes wiping down desks, countertops, and other frequently touched surfaces with sanitizing wipes or sprays. We also encourage you to ask employees to sanitize their personal workspaces throughout the day, especially if they share their desks with others.
Hand Sanitizing Stations: The CDC recommends placing hand sanitizer dispensers with at least 60% alcohol near frequently touched surfaces, in areas where soap and water are not easily accessible, such as near elevators, shared equipment, building entrances and exits. Your Royal Building Services janitorial service can ensure that soaps and sanitizers are refilled as part of your regular cleaning schedule.
Maintaining a healthy workplace requires a proactive approach to cleaning and hygiene. At Royal Building Services we understand that a clean and healthy environment not only supports productivity but also shows that you value the health and safety of your team. Contact us to help set up a cleaning and disinfecting schedule for your Wichita-area business.
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