5 Tips on Keeping Your Workplace Clean
With the recent Coronavirus outbreak affecting everyday lives and businesses, it’s important you keep yourself and your environments safe, clean and free of contamination.
At Benchmark Services, we are a hard-working team who care for our clients. As a community, we should work together to support each other as much as possible. We are playing our part with this blog - here are five useful tips to follow on keeping your work environment clean - whether it’s a scientific laboratory with complex and fragile equipment or busy office space.
1. Anti-bacterial is your best friend
This might not be the best go-to plan to kill infectious diseases, but it certainly helps prevent the spread of it from person to person, surface to surface. Include these products in your regular cleaning regime, take a bottle of hand sanitiser on the move with you and keep your office or lab as clean as possible.
2. Keep it tidy
As well as keeping the surfaces clean, you should also make sure workspaces are organised and tidy, too. This not only can affect presentation within the workspace, but affect motivation too. There are plenty of ways this can be carried out - including maximising storage space, getting rid of what you don’t use and increasing the efficiency of your workspace e.g. going paperless.
3. Stock cleaning supplies regularly
Employees are more likely to have the motivation to clean the workplace if there is cleaning equipment available in the workplace. Especially if your occupation involves working with hazardous chemicals, general liquids, bacterial surfaces or protective clothing etc. it’s pivotal your workplaces are kept sanitary.
Therefore, by ensuring you are stocking enough cleaning items so that they are available when employees need them will motivate them to clean up when necessary.
4. Discourage eating at desks
If you currently allow employees to eat their lunch or snacks at their desk, as convenient as it may be, it is a common way of transporting germs and bacterial from food to the desk and vice versa. Discourage eating at desks and encourage employees to eat elsewhere like in the kitchen, canteen or dining area - this will actually give employees to take a break from their work and improve their productivity when they return to their desks or work stations. Finally, most importantly, it keeps food away from paperwork and keyboards.
5. Invest in some baking soda pots
If you have a closed office, the lack of outside airflow can cause a musty smell in the office - which isn’t either ideal or appealing. Believe or not, but these smells can cause headaches, clouded thinking and respiratory conditions for employees.
Luckily for you, you can tackle this issue by placing pots of baking soda around strategic spots in the office to promote focus and productivity within the workplace. This is a great hack to use because it improves cleanliness and positivity simultaneously.
Feel free to share these tips with your friends and family - let’s help each other stay clean and healthy during these tough times. As a business, we are working hard as a team to support businesses that may have been affected.
Therefore, if your specialist lab relocation, delivery or installation has been delayed due to COVID-19, we can help by offering secure storage space in our facility to accommodate your laboratory equipment.
Contact us today! Be safe.
