Team up to clean up
Sean McClean, CEO of Key West Pest Control, talks to us about the need for corporate cleaning firms and hygiene specialists to collaborate to offer a thorough COVID-safe solution.
As a result of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, businesses are facing a number of challenges, not least the stringent hygiene and cleaning protocols they need to put in place to make sure they can keep operating.
Whilst the standard corporate cleaning contracts most businesses have in place won’t suffice to meet these extreme circumstances, we believe corporate cleaning firms and hygiene specialists should collaborate to offer solutions.
The government has stipulated a number of cleaning, hygiene and handwashing regulations for workplaces to ensure they can continue to operate, but in a safe and secure way that will reduce the risk of spreading the virus.
Coronavirus can transfer from people to surfaces and it can then be passed on to others who touch the same surfaces. Therefore, keeping the workplace impeccably clean with frequent handwashing from everyone on site will play a critical part in making and keeping a business ‘COVID-secure’.
Following a risk assessment on-site to understand what is required of their business, it’s likely that the majority will not only have to increase the intensity of their corporate cleaning, but also the frequency of that cleaning. This will add a significant pressure and requirements to corporate cleaning firms that they may not be able to meet.
COVID cleaning challenges
There are a number of challenges that corporate cleaning companies will be facing during the COVID-19 pandemic, the most prominent of which is not being able to offer their
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There are likely to be a number of reasons for this, the first of which would be the lack of specialist equipment required to provide the additional services. Though you may have all the equipment needed for standard corporate cleaning services, larger businesses with heavy traffic areas may request extra services requiring expensive equipment you don’t currently have.
Furthermore, even if you were able to acquire the necessary equipment, you may not have the expertise or knowledge within your team to deliver these services.
In addition to this, one of the biggest challenges facing the corporate cleaning world during the pandemic is having the staff, time and resources to meet all the additional demands and extra clients requesting cleaning services.
It’s likely, prior to the pandemic, that you had a number of regular, retained clients that required a set number of visits per week for standard cleaning protocols such as cleaning floors, bathrooms, kitchens, surfaces, emptying bins etc. To meet these demands, you would have known exactly what time and resources were needed in terms of staff and equipment, yet now there are so many more factors in play and as well as those regular clients needing more and more of your time, you’re probably getting more inbound enquiries than you can handle.
It’s time to team up Rather than getting overwhelmed, overpromising and
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