One cannot understate the importance of taking steps to prevent the spread of illness in their facilities. Offices, homes, and other buildings can quickly become a breeding ground for bacteria, viruses, and other germs that can spread like fire in a jungle.
It is therefore crucial for you to understand the need to follow sanitization protocols to minimize the health hazards and risks for the protection of your buildings’ occupants. In this post, we are going to discuss the best practices for disinfecting and sanitizing your office, home, or other buildings that you own.
5 Best Practices For Disinfecting and Sanitizing Your Office, Home and Building
Here are the best practices you can follow to disinfect and sanitize your properties. We highly recommend you follow each of these practices to decontaminate your surroundings to perfection.
1. Audit All High-Touch Areas of Your Building
The very first thing you need to do is create a list of all the high touch areas in your building. By high touch areas, we mean the places that are most used or touched by the occupants. Some of these places and equipment are common appliances, chairs, coffee stations, desks, door handles, elevator buttons, light switches, reception areas, sinks, tables, telephones, bathrooms, TV remotes, kitchen surfaces, and more.
2. Clean and Disinfect High-Touch Areas
Once you have a list, you must begin eliminating the contaminants and bacteria from the surfaces of the high touch areas. You have to clean and disinfect to ensure you eliminate all illness-causing bacterias. You will first have to clean the surface and then apply the disinfecting or sanitizing product. However, you must not wipe the surface immediately after applying the product. You must let the disinfectant sit on the surface for at least 5 to 10 minutes to get rid of all the viruses and bacteria.
3. Have an Outbreak Preparedness Procedure
If you run a business then you must have a business continuity plan which should include an outbreak preparedness procedure. The employees and other occupants of your building should be aware of the outbreak preparedness procedure and should be able to take the right measures during a crisis. Not just that, they should also be able to identify the signs and symptoms of a possible infection outbreak.
4. Strong Cleaning Program for Frequent Sanitization
Create a strong training program to ensure frequent cleaning and sanitizing of your operating. The cleaning plan should help the responsible employee or team to identify the surfaces that are required to be cleaned. They should also be provided with a schedule and all the important resources to prevent cross-contamination.
5. Always Disinfect From High Areas to Low Areas
When it comes to disinfecting your building, you must always start from clean services to dirty surfaces. Not just that, you must also try disinfecting from high areas to low areas. The reason behind this is that you don’t start with the dirtiest places first. Also, when you clean services that are high, you can easily dislodge the dirt and germs to the ground and then go off to clean the lower surfaces.
Over to You
There you have it. We have shared some of the best practices that you can follow in 2020 and beyond to effectively disinfect and sanitize your home, offices, and other buildings. However, we don’t recommend you do it by yourself unless you are a trained sanitization professional. You should hire professional sanitization services to ensure proper cleaning of your real estate properties.
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