As restrictions begin to ease and businesses start to think about returning to work premises, it’s a good time to review your office cleaning. If you have continued to clean your offices while your premises have been closed then you shouldn’t encounter any problems when your employees return. However, if you put your contract cleaning on hold during the pandemic, perhaps now is a good time to consider what might need to be done regarding your office cleaning before your workforce return.
Top Tips on Office Cleaning during the Pandemic
The pandemic has introduced a whole host of regulations and requirements that employers and building managers must comply with to ensure they maintain a safe and clean workspace for their employees. Here’s our tips to help you ensure that your office cleaning meets these standards.
1. Sanitiser Stations
Social distancing is still a requirement when you return to the office and introducing sanitiser stations in areas where there is a lot of people traffic is a good way to minimise risk of cross contamination. You may need to reconfigure some of your key work areas to allow for this. Also think about how you can reduce traffic in these main areas, perhaps by introducing one way systems and reducing the number of touchpoints on door handles, etc.
2. Maintain Good Ventilation
Good ventilation is really important for helping to reduce transmission of the virus so ensure you keep your premises well ventilated when staff are in the building – make sure your staff know to do this too. If you have a ventilation system in your building, it is important to ensure that these are well cleaned.
3. Regular Cleaning in key areas
Leaving all of your cleaning to the end of the day will not be enough in some areas – particularly kitchens and toilets. If your premises are large they may warrant appointing a daytime office cleaner to maintain hygiene standards throughout the working day. If not, you will need to ensure your staff take some responsibility for this. Ask them to ensure they clean up after themselves and provide signage / instructions as well as appropriate cleaning materials to make this easy.
4. Educating your workforce
Employee safety should be your top priority when returning to the office and educating your staff on cleanliness and hygiene is crucial to ensuring that you maintain high cleaning standards throughout your premises at all times. It may seem obvious to many but by introducing and communicating clear policies on hygiene, everyone will know what their role is in keeping your premises safe and clean.
If you would like to discuss your office cleaning in Basingstoke or Hampshire before your workforce return to the office, contact CDE Cleaning Services Ltd. We would be happy to visit your premises and provide our expert advice and on how you can ensure your offices are hygienically clean and ready for your staff when they return. We can discuss what products and procedures you might put in place to ensure your office cleaning standards remain high at all times. Call us to arrange a free quotation and specification for your office cleaning.