With the recent pandemic, protecting your staff and team and ensuring your office has the best cleaners has never been more important. COVID-19 can not only cost your business a fortune with staff taking time off for illness but can also be as serious as compulsory office closures which can force massive losses. Companies throughout Australia are looking for experienced cleaners who are COVID-19 ready and can help to prevent unnecessary risks.
Lazaro have COVID-19 trained cleaners and can not only do daily C-19 cleans but also once off “C-19 sanitiser cleans” to get your business prepared for next steps.
Here are some tips we have come up with to help your business to stay COVID clean.
Install hand sanitizer dispensers
By installing hand sanitiser dispensers and actively encouraging your employees to use them regularly, you’ll significantly reduce the circulation of all kinds of germs, not just the COVID-19 virus. Ensure your sanitiser is at least 60% alcohol based and try to choose a sanitiser that has aloe or some type of moisturiser so it doesn’t dry out your staff’s hands and they are happy to use it more often.
With COVID-19 transmitting so easily and with many virus’s (not just C-19) spreading via surfaces, staff who are regularly using communal office equipment can easily spread a virus. This can be easily prevented by installing sanitiser dispensers.
Keep communal equipment clean
Hand sanitiser will go a long way but COVID-19 is resilient, so cleaning your communal office equipment regularly is a must. Having anti-bacterial wipes near your office equipment (printers, phones, remotes and any other items that are used by multiple members of your team) and requesting that they clean equipment after each use is an extra step to COVID-19 prevention.
Clean workspaces regularly
Set a mandatory workspace cleaning schedule for your team that consists of at least a twice daily wipe down of their workstations, screens, keyboards, chairs and any other surfaces.
Distance your team
1.5m distance between your employees is necessary to help stop the spread of the virus. It may be necessary to have an empty workstation between each employee if your workstations are joined together. If you don’t have room to do this, you may need to have some of your staff work from home so you have extra space.
Speak to your team about the seriousness of COVID-19 and any outbreaks
In a competitive work environment, there are many employees who simply don’t take days off, even when they are ill. In today’s hectic and often stressful world, employees regularly feel like they can’t justify taking time off work – even when they’re ill.
The risk of COVID-19 is too great to allow this. If a member of your team is feeling under the weather they should get tested immediately and self quarantine while they await their test results. This is necessary to protect the rest of the team from a possible outbreak.
Hire an experienced commercial cleaner and ask about their COVID-19 plan
It has never been more important than now to hire an experienced commercial cleaner who not only ensures your work environment is spick and span but also has a strong COVID-19 plan as part of their regular cleaning schedule.
Maintaining a clean and sterilised working environment will significantly reduce staff sickness and the risk of COVID-19 in your office. Lazaro Cleaning Solutions have a specialist COVID-19 team and offer a free COVID-19 risk assessment and cleaning analysis for every client.
Contact us today.
