Prior to the world experiencing the phenomenal impact of COVID, for most individuals, cleanliness and hygiene were a brave notion in shared environments. However, those individuals who were taking measures to implement and maintain sanitation in schools and offices understood how incredibly important the role sanitation played in limiting the spread of germs, improving air quality for an indoor setting, and facilitating a healthier environment for everyone involved until COVID changed everything.
Let’s rewind and evaluate why sanitisation was already a mainstay in schools and offices even before COVID became our everyday vocabulary.
When Sanitisation Became Really Important
- Limitations on the Spread of Illness
Even pre-pandemic and COVID times, seasonal flu, colds, and stomach bugs were still circulating in schools and offices. We shared space (washrooms, cafeteria, desks) that were both living and breeding grounds for potential bacteria and viruses. Regular sanitation was helping to minimise and limit the spread of illnesses, leading to fewer sick days and better productivity.
- Safer Learning and Working Environment
In schools and offices, people spend many hours each day in an enclosed environment – classrooms, offices, break rooms, and bathrooms with every nook and cranny that dust, allergens, and pollutants can land in. Clean surfaces, air quality improvements, and sanitary washroom practices contributed to a more comfortable and safer learning and working environment for the student, teacher, employee, or customer.
- Boosting Confidence and Reputation
A clean space isn’t just healthy—it also builds trust. Schools with high standards of cleanliness reassured parents about their children’s safety. Similarly, clean office environments reflected a company’s professionalism and care for employee well-being.
- Preventing Pest Infestations
Neglected spaces attract pests. Crumbs under desks, overflowing bins, or untidy pantries can lead to cockroach, rodent, or ant infestations. Regular sanitisation combined with pest control was the best strategy to keep unwelcome visitors out.
- Maintaining Equipment and infrastructure.
Dust and grime don’t just affect people; they also damage electronic devices and furniture. Proper cleaning and sanitisation extended the life of computers, printers, and even flooring or upholstery.
- Improving Trust and Accountability
An uncluttered environment is not only safe; it builds trust. Parents feel good when their children go to a school with high standards of cleanliness. Furthermore, an office that is clean communicates professionalism and care for the employees’ health and well-being.
- Elimination of Pest Infection Risk
When areas become cluttered, dirty or unkempt, it contributes to pest problems. When crumbs are left under desks, overflowing bins and unkept pantries will usually lead to an infestation of cockroaches, rodents or ants. Our suggestion was always to regularly sanitise their office or school and always follow that with pest control and inspections as the best way to deter unwanted guests.
- Protect Equipment and Physical Facility
Dust and dirt not only harm people; they can also damage your computers, printers, furniture, carpets, etc. Proper cleaning and sanitisation extend the life of the functioning equipment, computers, printers and carpets or upholstery.
How Pest Control and Cleaning Service can support you
Pest Control and Cleaning Service has always stressed the need to sanitise before everyone became acutely aware of it. Our professionally qualified cleaning and sanitisation services will benefit you by:
- Reducing germs and allergens
- Reducing cross-pollination
- Increasing hygiene and cleanliness
- Meeting health building codes
- Treating your commercial or residential space to eliminate the risk from pest infestations
Whether it is a school or an office space, we have you clean and welcoming!
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
Q1. Why has sanitisation been seen as essential prior to the COVID pandemic?
A: Because sanitisation continues to be of importance in preventing the flu, food poisoning, allergies, etc., and keeping high-footfall environments free of germs.
Q2. Where in schools and in offices is sanitisation most needed?
A: Each time a contact surface is touched, for example, doorknobs, desks, keyboards, light switches, washrooms, cafeteria surfaces, shared equipment, etc.
Q3. How often should schools and offices be sanitised?
A: Schools and offices should not only be cleaned daily but also sanitised weekly. Some high-risk areas may also require additional sanitising practices.
Q4. Will regularly sanitising surfaces reduce the risk of an infestation of pests?
A: Yes. The clean environment is less attractive to pests, and when ‘sanitising’ and ‘pest control’ work together, the chance of infestation reduces greatly.
Q5. What methods of sanitisation do professionals use?
A: Professionals rarely only use EPA-approved disinfectants, fogging machines, UV treatments and manual deep cleaning methods, all of which can mitigate/uncover outbreaks, pathogens and infectious diseases.
Conclusion
For quite some time before the global pandemic took hold, sanitisation in workplaces and schools was already a savvy, preventative action in order to protect health and quality of life. This is not merely a post-COVID action; it is the type of lingering habit we should all be developing and optimising to enable our well-being.
Are you looking to develop the hygiene of your premises?
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