Best Practices for Preventing the Spread.
The Janitorial Services Industry Leader in South Jersey, Offshore Carpet Cleaning & Janitorial Services is the best choice. We follow the CDC for the most up to date and accurate procedures.
CDC Guidelines
Guidelines have been updated and changing as we learn more about this virus. With that sais it is important to check frequently for updated recommendations https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/index.html
Wash your hands – Wash with soap and water for 20 seconds- use 70% alcohol-based hand sanitizer if soap and water are unavailable.
Avoid touching your face – Avoid touching eyes, nose and mouth with unwashed hands.
Avoid close contact – Avoid close contact such as kissing, hugging, and sharing cups or eating utensils with people who are sick.
Cover your coughs and sneezes – Cover your coughs and sneezes with a tissue or shirt sleeve, not your hands.
Clean and disinfect frequently – Clean and disinfect frequently touched surfaces, especially if someone is sick.
Stay home when sick
Prevention and Control Measures
These are some of the same basic principles that we are retraining our staff on and encourage all to participate in similar prevention measures. In addition, we have a few recommendations to make to our clients for implementation, effective immediately:
Increase routine patrols of high-touch areas
Procure additional
Maintain our cleaning tools more regularly.
Where this guidance stands now
This page was written during the COVID-19 pandemic and the specific public health guidance of that period has since changed. Check the CDC and the New Jersey Department of Health for current advice on any particular illness. What has not changed is the underlying hygiene practice, which applies to respiratory illness generally rather than to one virus, and which is what we build our commercial cleaning schedules around.
What still holds for a workplace
- Clean before you disinfect. Disinfectant applied over dust and soil binds to the dirt instead of the surface, so the step is largely wasted.
- Concentrate on high-touch points. Door hardware, switches, rails, shared keyboards and equipment, counters and restroom fittings carry far more transfer risk than floors and walls.
- Give disinfectant its dwell time. Almost every product needs to stay wet on the surface for a stated period, and wiping it straight off is the most common mistake we see.
- Increase frequency during an outbreak rather than changing product. Cleaning the same surfaces more often does more than switching to something stronger.
- Keep the cleaning equipment clean. Cloths and mop heads that are not changed regularly move soil around instead of removing it.
How we handle it
For commercial clients we fold high-touch disinfection into the routine janitorial visit rather than treating it as a separate emergency service, and schedule whole-space treatment at an agreed interval. That is both cheaper and more effective than reacting after an illness has already moved through a workplace. In schools, preschools, dental and medical buildings we use HOCl, which is effective at working concentrations and suitable for occupied spaces.
If your building needs a routine reviewing, we will walk it with you and put a schedule together. Estimates are free.
