Maintaining a comprehensive Workplace Wellness plan is essential for ensuring a healthy and safe environment for your employees and visitors. Workplaces can harbor germs and bacteria throughout the year, making regular and thorough cleaning practices vital. Relying solely on occasional cleaning and hand sanitizer may not suffice to keep your facility free from contaminants.
Prevention
Workplace Wellness starts with prevention. A little pre-planning and preparation can go a long way.
Promote a Healthy Lifestyle
There’s power behind living the words you’re preaching to everyone else. What do we mean by that? It means providing learning opportunities to help employees get on board with workplace wellness initiatives. Is there an expert who can teach your team about the proper way to wash hands (even if it’s a webinar)? If you’re worried about attendance being low, think about providing an initiative for employees to get them excited. Here are five key factors that contribute to the success of these programs for employees:
- Communication
- Accessibility
- Health assessments
- Screenings
- Health education
Whatever you do, make it fun yet educational. Additionally, policies and awareness of resources can aid in your overall goal of maintaining a healthy culture.
Sanitize High-Touch Areas
Would it surprise you to know a virus can survive on hard surfaces for up to 24 hours? It’s true. Doorknobs, microwave handles, coffee pots, and many other high-touch areas are only as clean as the last hand that touched it. It’s clear why regularly sanitizing these spots is an important part of maintaining workplace wellness. Below are various preventative steps to help minimize the accumulation of germs:
- Provide hand sanitizer at every door
- Stock up on disinfectant wipes
- Sanitize all equipment like computer keyboards and phones regularly
- Focus on keeping heavy-traffic areas clean
- Sanitize high-touch areas like stair rails, door handles, and elevator buttons
If you’re ever in doubt about whether to sanitize an area, it’s better to be safe than sorry. Germs can live in various conditions and find their way into even the tiniest of crevices.
Maintenance
Even if you already know the importance of keeping your facility clean, City Wide knows your time is valuable. This is where we come in. We schedule the industry’s top professionals to help protect your workplace from germs, bacteria, and viruses — especially those with vulnerable populations or high-traffic environments.
City Wide can manage disinfection treatments quickly and effectively. By engaging a maintenance company that knows how to successfully manage your workplace wellness, you can safeguard your facility’s environment.
