Tips on Cleaning Your Office Common Areas

Now that more people are returning to their offices, here are some recommendations on keeping your office common areas clean throughout the day.

Step 1:

Check to ascertain that your office cleaner has suitable Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) on. This includes wearing gloves, using 80% alcohol hand sanitizer on surfaces, and wearing covered shoes.

Make sure your cleaner has the required tools to urge the work done. This includes cleaning tools like a vacuum, mop, pail, broom, dustpan, cleaning cloths, and safety signages.

Step 2:

Start off by dust mopping or vacuuming the office floors. Pick a time when the office is least-busiest to hold out vacuuming in order that the sound doesn't interrupt or become a disturbance to the office. Check to form sure that the vacuum bag has sufficient capacity and isn't full.

Step 3:

Once the dust mopping or vacuuming has been completed, proceed to mop the ground area. Check to make sure an accurate proportion of cleaning chemicals is employed to the ratio of water for the mopping solution. Remember to put safety signages where the mopping is being administered.

Step 4:

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic situation, it's important to pay extra attention and detail to the cleaning of all surface areas within the office, especially high-frequency touchpoints like armchair rests, keyboards, door handles, lift buttons, etc. And do install acrylic counter screens for further safety purposes.

Use an appropriate industry-grade chemical disinfectant to wash all surface areas. And make certain to use different colored clothes to wipe clean the varied surface areas to attenuate cross-contamination.

Step 5:

When your office cleaner is clearing wastepaper bins, ensure they tie and take away used bin liners from the wastepaper bin. Hold the used bin liners at distance from the body to avoid contact with sharp objects within the used bin liners. Bulky items should be flattened or weakened before disposal.

Alternatively, rather than having individual wastepaper bins, have a centralized bin in order that the office cleaner can reduce time clearing individual bins and specialize in other cleaning tasks.

Step 6:

When the cleaning is completed, make sure your office cleaner has also cleaned all the floor standing partition screens and re-instated the work area. What does this mean?

Have a checklist in order that acts as a reminder for your office cleaner to check and confirm all cleaning tasks are completed.

Remove waste/ refuse and eliminate them within the properly designated area. Remove the security signage only the ground is dry. Proceed to get rid of all tools and equipment from the work area.

Final Step:

Check that the required tools and equipment are returned to the cargo area. Have gloves and cleaning clothes been properly washed and spent time to dry for subsequent use? Has your office cleaner washed hands before leaving the premises? These are some good general practices and hygiene factors to think about when it involves keeping your office clean.