4 Steps to Reopening your business after COVID-19 Shutdown
Prior to the COVID outbreak, Excel Cleaning Services was already at work researching and implementing best practices in commercial cleaning that met or exceeded industry standards. Today, our expertise in commercial cleaning and facilities management has never been in greater demand.
The United States Center for Disease Control (CDC) in Atlanta has issued updated guidance to help offices and other public buildings reopen safely; chief among the CDC’s critical points on this subject involves keeping all spaces within commercial buildings disinfected and free from coronavirus and other potentially lethal contaminants. This is an area where Excel Cleaning Services has been providing the greater Nashville business community with gold standard service for more than 15 years.
CDC guidance for reopening commercial spaces safely addresses:
• Moving or removing furniture to maintain six feet of social distancing. That includes reception areas, workspaces, break rooms and anywhere else people congregate;
• Requiring masks indoors;
• Limiting occupancy in elevators;
• Replacing water coolers, coffee pots and bulk snacks with touchless dispensers or single-serve, individually-wrapped items;
• Disinfecting office spaces and common areas like kitchens and bathrooms more frequently;
• Improving ventilation and air filtration.
Closing an office or commercial building for months at a time raises new health risks, including mold growth, rodents or other pests and stagnant water in the plumbing, which can lead to Legionnaire’s disease.
Coronavirus-specific adjustments are necessary before an office or commercial space can reopen. A major issue is clean air. The virus spreads through respiratory droplets that can be generated simply by talking.
Dr. Christina Bax, a research fellow at Penn Medicine advises: “The droplets are small enough that they can remain floating in the air for many minutes.” If the speaker is infected with the coronavirus but has no symptoms, everyday conversation indoors could spread the disease.
Kelly A. Reynolds, PhD, director of the Environment Exposure Science and Risk Assessment Center at the University of Arizona warns: “Our studies show that viruses spread quickly in the office setting and that if one person comes to work sick, over 50% of the office surfaces and co-workers’ hands can become contaminated with the viruses they shed.”
Excel Cleaning delivers a comprehensive cleaning and disinfecting service designed to reduce the spread of the COVID-19 virus. One very significant feature of our service for heavily-populated indoor areas is our High Touch Point and Full Room Protection Service.
Disinfecting Office Spaces with the Excel Full Room Protection Advantage.
Once the cleaner finishes cleaning a surface, contaminants attack the area again. Excel’s full-room sanitation cleans more than surfaces. Our no-touch electrostatic sprayer applies disinfectant to cover all sides of surfaces, and our electrostatic fogger, a chemical misting machine, charges the chemical so it attaches to all surfaces it reaches. This added protection prevents microbes like viruses, bacteria and mold from reactivating.
Excel uses a registered EPA-approved hospital-grade disinfectant that kills 99.999% of bacteria and germs, while being odorless, colorless and non-leaching, protecting facilities from the previous day’s germs and bacteria.
Excel’s Full Room Protection provides residual protection with sanitized fogging for all surfaces in our client’s facilities, adding life to the original treatments.
COVID has changed the way a lot of Nashville businesses work. Previously, a lot happened in hallway conversations, in the break room, and hanging out before meetings. Because of COVID, everyone is thinking about new methods of collaborating and brainstorming. But through each week, Excel’s advanced cleaning methods are making all the difference toward realizing a healthy and productive workforce.
