Why Commercial Buildings Should Use Professional Cleaners to Battle COVID-19

8/25/2022 (Permalink)

Fight COVID-19 with SERVPRO

As we continue to battle through the Covid-19 pandemic, commercial buildings have been doing a great job of continuing to implement different measures for keeping the people in those facilities safe. Here are the reasons why a commercial building may consider, or need, to bring in a professional cleaning staff. 

Having a Emergency Response Plan

As Covid-19 continues to spread throughout our community, more people will be exposed and test positive for the illness. What will your workplace do when that happens? If there is an outbreak in your workplace, a response needs to be in place so:

• Employees can be safe
• Work can resume without the fear of infection from the work environment

A proactive plan should be developed that includes preventative measures to reduce potential exposure and also reactive measures for when exposure happens when a positive testing co-worker enters the workspace. This second situation, one where a person potentially left the virus in the workplace, is where a professional cleaning staff should be considered. 

While normal custodial staff are equipped to handle regular cleaning operations, Covid-19 is different. This highly infectious illness could be transmitted to a unprepared custodial staff if they are not trained in wearing personal protective equipment (PPE). If they are exposed, it opens a legal gray area in which they can claim they were knowingly exposed to biological contamination without the right equipment. 

At SERVPRO of Bismarck, we equip all our technicians with the right PPE, which includes gloves, respirators, and full suits for protection. Additionally, we have high-grade that have been recommended for CDC use against Covid-19. This, combined with full coverage insurance for our technicians, allows us to confidently send them into a biologically contaminated space. 

Give us a call today to talk about setting up a Covid-19 response plan. This will allow you to have a response plan to place in battle the spread of Covid-19 if it should enter your workplace.