Many countries have responded to the coronavirus outbreak by enforcing a lockdown to break the chain of infection and reduce its spread to avoid overwhelming health services. However, if you have a vital service or business that has to keep functioning, it’s essential to take every precaution to protect the people who use your premises, including your employees, visitors and members of the public.
Poor hand hygiene is a particular problem because people frequently cough and sneeze into their hands or touch their mouth or nose, providing a ready means to spread the coronavirus to everything they touch. The virus can be transferred to other people when they touch a contaminated surface and become infected when they touch their mouth, nose or eyes.
In hospitals, schools, social care, offices, retail outlets, hotels, and public transport, there are many key touchpoints that people commonly share, including:
door handles
supermarket trollies and baskets
cashpoints
petrol pumps
rubbish bins
kitchen and dining surfaces
taps, kettles
toilet flush handles or buttons
stair rails, handrails, grab handles and grab rails
recycling areas
vehicles
Cleaning and disinfecting areas and objects play an essential role in protecting people from COVID - 19. It’s critical in returning a site to safe use after an infected person has visited your premises.
As a facilities manager, you’ll need to ask the following questions.
How quickly can I get my facilities up and running again?
Are my premises virus-free and are the surfaces in my premises safe to touch and use again?
What hygiene procedures and virus control measures do I need to put in place immediately?
How do I develop a strategy to implement robust hygiene standards in my organisation?
What do I need to do to comply with changing regulations and how do I safeguard against this happening again?
Manual methods are the first choice to disinfect surfaces, but for combating airborne pathogens and disinfecting large areas that require rapid re-entry of treated areas, fogging is an ideal solution.
Ultra-low volume (ULV) disinfection fogging involves using a fogger machine to generate a cloud of extremely small droplets of a disinfectant liquid. The application of disinfectants and biocides using this method can significantly reduce the number of pathogens both on surfaces and in the air.
The droplets can settle underneath, on top of and on the sides of many objects and inaccessible areas that may be difficult or not possible to reach using conventional cleaning methods. It also reaches a wider range of surfaces than manual cleaning, including textiles.
Rapid ULV fogging and disinfection enables the treatment of large areas in a short space of time to help to quickly break the chain of infection.
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