News

With the concern for infection risk from both COVID-19 and the flu this year, the upcoming holiday season is an ideal time for businesses to arrange for detailed deep cleaning and disinfecting services in preparation for the new year. When many facilities are closed and most staff are away, the holidays offer a perfect opportunity for cleaning technicians to access and target areas not included in regular cleaning routines during the rest of the year.

Before the pandemic, most businesses typically focused fall cleaning programs to prepare for flu season. Now the question is, how can you protect your workplace against both influenza (flu) and COVID-19?

While the two viruses both cause respiratory disease, knowing more about their similarities and differences, and how each can spread will help you implement the necessary measures to fortify against virus outbreaks and transmission in your facility.

People are understandably nervous about going back to work as the COVID-19 lockdown is lifted. One thing for sure, however, it will not be business as usual. Everyone is on high alert for infection risk and what measures are being undertaken to address virus prevention, transmission and cross contamination in the workplace. Office and facility managers need to assure employees and building occupants that they are working in a safe and healthy environment.

School administrators are facing perhaps their most difficult fall season ever. Getting back to school has never been more uncertain or complicated. Ensuring the safety of students and faculty during the COVID-19 pandemic has raised some challenging questions, many of them about cleanliness and disinfection. Infection control in schools is always a concern because of influenza and bacteria such as MRSA and C. diff, but COVID-19 presents new questions. Principals and school boards are seeking information and they often turn to commercial cleaning professionals for the answers.

One thing the world has learned from the COVID-19 pandemic is that most businesses were not prepared for infection control within their facilities. To address the concern for infection risk as businesses return to work, ServiceMaster Clean has developed a comprehensive, science-based cleaning and disinfecting program to provide preventative health and safety services in the workplace. PROTECT-3 ADVANCE™ is a full-spectrum cleaning and disinfection system, designed to reduce risk and provide continued protection against infectious outbreaks in all types of work environments.