Office cleaning and disinfection guide
Hygiene in offices is a tool to ensure the health and well-being of workers and enhance their performance.
Hygiene in offices is a tool to ensure the health and well-being of workers and enhance their performance. Hygiene in offices has its main aim to ensure that the spaces offer a pleasant aesthetic and facilitate coexistence in them.
Unlike what happens in sectors such as, for example, food or health, offices have a much lower level of demand in terms of hygiene.
However, this does not mean that it is not important and that it does not have consequences for workers. And it is that according to the different editions of the barometers for health in work environments developed by our colleagues at SCS Group Integrated Services represents an active value in offices and helps improve the performance of workers.
How to clean office bathrooms?
How to clean the dining area and kitchen in offices?
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What products do we need for office hygiene?
Neutral detergents and disinfectants, preferably alcohol-based, are needed to clean and disinfect the offices. We will apply these products with the help of microfiber mops and cloths. It must also equip the offices with dispensers for hydroalcoholic gel, soap or hand-drying paper, among others.
The containers and bins will be essential to maintain the order of the spaces and the general hygiene of the offices. Impregnated wipe dispensing systems are a versatile and very convenient option for involving workers in disinfecting the surfaces they use.
What is the recommended frequency of hygiene in offices?
Offices must be thoroughly cleaned and disinfected at least once a day. During office hygiene tasks, we will pay special attention to floors, furniture (desks, chairs, reception desk, etc.), computer equipment, or electronic devices. Once we recommend cleaning the windows, glass panes, or surfaces that are more difficult to access.
How do clean floors in offices?
In this article, we explain which cleaning tools are the most suitable for each type of floor according to its material. We recommend cleaning the floor first. The reason? When we sweep, we raise a lot of dust and dirt particles that end up being deposited on furniture or other surfaces.
To avoid spreading dirt, we recommend cleaning office floors with slightly damp microfiber mops. The Bio and Trilogy mop systems are the most suitable for dry and wet floor hygiene, minimizing the efforts required by the cleaning staff.
How to clean office furniture?
As with floors, desks, chairs, shelves, and other furniture elements, we recommend it to apply a wet cleaning of the furniture to better trap dust. For this, we recommend using microfiber cloths and neutral detergents to avoid damaging the surfaces.
For disinfection, we will also use products that respect wood. 2-in-1 detergent and disinfectant products are a good option for cleaning office furniture.
How do you clean computer equipment and electronic devices?
Computer equipment and electronic devices (printers, keyboards, mice, etc.) are part of the main sources of microbes in offices. For cleaning, we will use impregnated non-woven fabric wipes or microfiber cloths, combining them with alcohol-based disinfectant solutions.
Alcohol is an effective compound against viruses and bacteria and stands out for its rapid evaporation after application. Regarding the application of these products, in the first place, we must consider whether it is necessary to disconnect the devices and devices, but we must always avoid spraying them directly.
How should waste management and collection be in offices?
One of the biggest mistakes made during office hygiene tasks is to empty the waste bags that are placed in the bins, instead of replacing them. This bad practice can lead to cross-contamination problems and also odor contamination.
To avoid this, besides changing the bags after each workday, we recommend it periodically disinfecting the bins and containers (especially those that contain liquids or food remains). For the dining area, we recommend using containers with pedals and lids of different colors that allow applying a selection system for recycling during waste collection.
How to guarantee environmental hygiene in offices?
Light, sound, or the absence of bad odors are part of environmental hygiene in offices and have a direct impact on people’s well-being. Adopting the facilities to offer workers comfortable and healthy workspaces, we must consider how to deal with the presence of bad odors.
Enzymatic deodorizers are the best alternative to air fresheners, as they help fight odor pollution naturally and eliminate bad odors at the root.
Ventilating the spaces several times a day for a minimum of 10 minutes helps to avoid the generation of bad odors and prevents viral infections.
How to clean office bathrooms?
Bathrooms, in addition to being sanitized frequently enough, must have adequate hygienic equipment. We recommend the use of automatic soap dispensers and the installation of hand-drying paper towels to replace air dryers. Regarding toilet paper, it is advisable to place large-capacity dispensers to guarantee the availability of this product for as long as possible.
How to clean the dining area and kitchen in offices?
The dining area is a space where workers share a relaxed time. However, they also share elements such as, for example, the scourer and, with it, the possibility of transferring bacteria from one surface to another.
In the dining room and kitchen area of the offices, it is important to offer, as far as possible, disposable utensils. With scouring pads, it must replace at least once a week.
Recommendations for personal hygiene in offices
Personal hygiene is a much-needed action to prevent viral infections in offices. To encourage it, we recommend it to place hydroalcoholic gel dispensers at strategic points and offering bottles of hand sanitizers to workers.
In addition, organizations can also supply staff with disposable face masks during the workday. There are multiple solutions to facilitate hygiene tasks in offices: from the use of cleaning trolleys to the most innovative mopping systems.
We are aware of the usual problems that cleaning staff have to deal with and, therefore; we wanted to go a step further by combining hygiene and technology.
This has given rise to Smart Way, an intelligent system that allows cleaning tasks to be centralized on a single platform to record hygiene-related activities and subsequently analyze them.
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