A Clean Workplace is a Safe Workspace
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Ensuring that your workplace is gleaming is about much more than keeping up appearances and ensuring that any visitors to your office are not immediately put off by the dirt and grime that you’ve allowed to fester – it’s much more important than that! A workplace than it clean is a workspace that is safe.
Workplace illnesses and injuries are extremely common, with millions of people succumbing to them each year. Not only can these illnesses cause serious damage to employees and visitors, but they could also land you in hot water too, which is why it’s so important to keep it clean. Here are some tips to help you do just that…
Keep Floors Clean and Dry
Floors that are covered in dirt and debris are an obvious health hazard. They could so easily cause someone to fall over, or to stick to a dirty patch and become injured as a result. Similarly, wet floors can cause slippages which could break arms and legs or cause bangs to the head. That’s why floors should always be cleaned at the end of the day and wet floor signs placed down to warn people.
Waste Can Cause Illness
If you allow the waste that you and your employees inevitably produce to build up and start to rot, then you shouldn’t be surprised if you end up with a lot of sicknesses. The bacteria from old sandwich wrappers, coffee cups, and who knows what else, if transferred to people could cause various bugs. Waste management companies are the best people to call in if you run a large operation and the waste builds up quickly. They can, on a regular basis, come in and take everything away, so you don’t have to worry about it being on site, nor do you need to worry about it festering and making people sick, or even worse, attracting vermin.
Dirty Air Filters Can Spread Disease
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Did you know that dirty air filtration systems can not only spread bacteria throughout your workplace., but that some of the bugs it spreads, like those related to legionnaires disease, can actually prove fatal? That’s a very good reason to have your HVAC system professionally cleaned on a regular basis. Do this at least once a year.
Cleaning Lights Can Increase Safety
Taking the time to clean your building’s light fixtures is a fantastic way to, not only ensure that your employees have access to the level of light they need to keep their eyes in good condition and ensure they can actually see what they are doing, but it will also improve efficiency too.
Green Products are Safest of All
If you want to keep workplace as clean as possible and do so safely, then using eco-friendly products, preferably those that contain only natural products is the best way to do so because you’re less likely to use something that will irritate anyone’s skin or cause an allergic reaction. Of course, you should always ask your employees about allergies before using anything in particular as a matter of course!
