With the rise of the coronavirus pandemic, keeping your office clean and sanitized is more important than ever. Like many, you're likely working overtime to help stop the spread of the dangerous virus, whether on your own or with a professional cleaning service. Consider the following tips to help you create a safe working environment for your staff.

How to Prevent the Spread of Coronavirus in Your Office

1. Reduce Surfaces That Require Touch

COVID-19 can be spread by direct contact with a contaminated surface. To reduce your employee's exposure to germs, install hands-free devices, such as motion sensor lighting, water faucets, soap dispensers, and trash cans. If possible, consider leaving interior doors open to reduce the need to touch handles.

2. Disinfect Workstations and Common Areas

Provide supplies and encourage your employees to regularly clean and disinfect their workstations. This should include desktops, computer keyboards, mouse and mousepads, as well as phones, chairs, and other commonly used objects.

Consider hiring a cleaning service to perform a thorough cleansing of common spaces and high touch surfaces, such as conference rooms, kitchens, employee lounges, elevators, stair-ways, drinking fountains, coffee stations, and any shared surfaces. You should also have them clean heavily used office equipment, such as fax machines and printers. These items should be sanitized using disinfectants registered by the EPA as effective against killing the coronavirus.

3. Promote Cleanliness

Keep a supply of cleaning products, including disinfecting wipes, sprays, hand sanitizers, and hand soaps readily available and easily accessible to employees at all times. Replace reusable hand towels with paper towels to reduce the risk of transmission. Encourage all employees to wash their hands regularly for 20 seconds using warm water before and after eating, after using the bathroom, and after coughing or blowing their nose.

Guarantee the safety of your employees and help stop the spread of the coronavirus by hiring the professional and thorough cleaning services of Performance Chores in Lincoln, NE. Their skilled team proudly provides high-quality cleaning services for commercial spaces, including office buildings, healthcare facilities, and shopping centers, using high-quality products and sanitation methods. Contact them at (402) 326-2305 to schedule service or visit them online for more information.