Tips To Sanitize And Disinfect Your Business Premises During The Pandemic

​The 2020 pandemic drove countless commercial enterprises to close down or make extensive changes. Among those adjustments, businesses have to ensure the employees and customers are safe while within the premises. Here are some tips for sanitizing and disinfecting your business premises to integrate into your operations seamlessly.

Know How The Virus Spreads
As Sun Tzu implied, knowing the enemy and your ability to provide safeguards is integral in building defenses. This timeless piece of advice is also applicable in your fight against the pandemic. Covid19, the virus that caused the pandemic, spreads as a bioaerosol. Here are some facts about the virus:

1. It settles on-air columns in less than 2 meters for 15 minutes. Thus, breathing, sneezing, coughing, and talking within these parameters can transmit the virus.
2. It stays on hard surfaces from minutes to hours, providing higher chances of hand-to-body transfers.
3. The virus has a cell wall made out of lipid coating that is easy to destroy. Destroying the lipid coating kills the virus.
   
   Due to these facts, social distancing, frequent handwashing, and wearing face masks are the minimum health protocols against Covid19.

Sanitize Surfaces
It is important to sanitize surfaces as these are typically what customers and employees touch. Among those you should consider routinely disinfecting are tables, keyboards, doorknobs, toilets, light switches, countertops, and handles. 

Other objects that people frequently use, such as phones, faucets and sinks, and touch screens must also be sanitized. You can provide sanitizing sprays in restrooms to allow customers and employees to spray surfaces after using them.  

Choose Known Effective Products
There are three known effective products to use when disinfecting your business premises against Covid19. These are:

1. Products containing bleach
2. Products that contain 65% or more alcohol
3. Products with quaternary amines

These products are the most effective against pathogenic viruses and bacteria. However, there are proper ways to use these products, such as wearing gloves and keeping them away from acids. Moreover, alcohol-based products are flammable, so these must be stored appropriately. Most importantly, these cleaning products are for surfaces only, not for humans.

Conclusion
Due to the pandemic, maintaining your business operations requires routine sanitizing and disinfecting. It ensures that your stakeholders are safe against invisible enemies, like how your insurance protects your business against unforeseeable events.  

At Arnold Insurance Agency, LLC, we do our best in making sure that our clients are well-protected with affordable and comprehensive policies. We make sure to go the extra mile to help you with your needs. To learn more about how we can help you, please contact our agency at (318) 965-5953 or Click Here to request a free quote.