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5 Tips for Improving Hygiene and Reducing Operating Costs

Improving office cleanliness is always good practice. Even if your office is professionally cleaned on a regular basis, keeping up with good hygiene practices between those cleaning is a must. Not only does it boost morale and productivity, but it can also reduce operating costs. 

5 Tips for Improving Hygiene and Reducing Operating Costs

Here are 5 tips for improving hygiene within your office or facility. (Courtesy of CMM)

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1. Change consumables

Soap dispensers come in a couple of different forms. The best option in terms of hygiene is a “closed” soap dispenser. This type of dispenser includes a hygienically sealed nozzle and reservoir.

Using a closed system can reduce the number of bacteria that contaminate the soap. It may also help to use foam dispensers as well, as these cause less of a mess.

Paper towels are also another relatively low-cost option to reduce the number of bacteria after handwashing. Either white or brown paper towels are recommended.

2. Install automated, touchless dispensers and fixtures

Manually operated paper towels, soap, and water fixtures can be troublesome when trying to practice good hygiene. Users may wash their hands and touch the faucet after with wet hands, causing unwanted bacteria to grow and spread.

Automated, touchless dispensers can be applied to water faucets, paper towel dispensers, soap dispensers, and even flush valves. Implementing these not only saves you from unnecessary bacteria, but may also decrease operating costs. This is because these devices only produce enough to get the job done, reducing usage and waste.

Read: Tips for Safe Disinfectant Use Between Cleanings

3. Implement smart restroom technology

Smart restroom technologies are no longer systems of the future. They’re becoming the standard for modern restroom maintenance. Smart restroom technology prompts office cleaners to regularly sanitize touch points throughout, such as doorknobs, stalls, and toilet paper dispensers.

Product waste is also reduced with the use of these systems. They regulate the amount that is flushed and let cleaners know when they’re empty so there is no overfilling.

4. Provide proper training

Having updated fixtures and technologies is important, but it doesn’t mean much if proper techniques and practices aren’t being followed. Teaching employees about safe hygiene practices within the office or facility will drastically reduce the misuse of cleaning technology.

Either onboarding training, self-learning videos, or putting small instructional signs around may be good options to help increase the knowledge of safe hygiene practices.

5. Find the right partners

Look for a product distributor that tailors its goods toward your company’s needs. Providing the necessary information to effectively use cleaning systems and technologies is essential. In addition, look for a reliable commercial cleaner who will help you maintain a clean work environment.

Having good hygiene within your office or facility is important. Automated fixtures and technologies can improve hygiene, health, productivity and employee satisfaction.

ROC Commercial Cleaning is your trusted Twin Cities janitorial service. We provide contract cleaning for office buildings, medical and veterinary clinics, auto dealerships, salons, retail stores, industrial buildings, office disinfection services, and more. We also provide construction cleanup during and after construction projects of all sizes. No cleaning job is too big or too small for our experienced cleaning teams!

Get off the cleaning rollercoaster. Contact ROC Commercial Cleaning at 612-581-2776 for your free, no-obligation estimate.

What Do Employees Want? A Clean Work Environment.

Ensuring that employees have a clean, healthy and safe work environment is crucial to business success. If your workplace lacks cleanliness, it can have a significant impact on employee happiness, productivity and performance.

According to Harvard Business Review, research has found that employees who are satisfied with their work environments are 16% more productive, 18% more likely to stay with the company, and 30% more attracted to their company over competitors.

Here are 3 tips to help you improve the quality of your work environment.

3 Tips to Improve Your Work Environment

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Focus on Changes That Will Benefit All Employees

Instead of spending money on pointless office perks like gyms or snacks, make changes that will impact every employee. Factors like air quality and light are known to improve wellness among employees, so start by spending more on these.

Read: How to Improve Office Air Quality

Never assume that you know what your employees want. Instead, focus on subtle ways to ask them how you can improve their work environment.

Personalize when Possible

Giving your employees the freedom to have more control over the place that they work in goes a long way. At home, they have the luxury of adjusting the temperature, lighting, and noise control in their space, so why not give them this luxury at work?

In doing so, you’ll see that your employees will enjoy the control they have over the environment they’re in every day.

Take a Holistic Approach to Workplace Wellness

Workplace wellness doesn’t just mean physical health. Workplace wellness includes the physical, emotional, and environmental wellness of all your employees. A few examples:

  • Emotional Wellness: Access to natural light and quiet rooms.
  • Physical Wellness: Healthy food options and clean workspaces.
  • Environmental Wellness: Adequate air quality, light, and temperature.

Read: Why Should My Office Hire Professional Cleaners?

Do you want to grow your business, increase employee productivity and improve employee retention? ROC Commercial Cleaning can help! Our reliable commercial janitorial services will ensure that your employees have a clean, safe and healthy work environment. Contact us and get started today!

ROC Commercial Cleaning is your trusted Twin Cities janitorial service. We provide contract cleaning for office buildings, medical and veterinary clinics, auto dealerships, salons, and retail stores, industrial buildings, office disinfection services, and more. We also provide construction cleanup during and after construction projects of all sizes. No cleaning job is too big or too small for our experienced cleaning teams!

Get off the cleaning rollercoaster. Contact ROC Commercial Cleaning at 612-581-2776 for your free, no-obligation estimate.

How to Keep Your Office Organized

Whether you work in a cubicle, private office, shared co-working space, or something in between, it can be tough to keep your workspace organized. But there are many benefits of an orderly working environment. As we’ve previously discussed, a clean workspace leads to greater focus, creativity, productivity, and morale. (Our experienced and reliable commercial cleaning services can help!)

If the thought of maintaining an organized office seems daunting, we’re here to help! We have a few tips from Office Depot on how to set up an organization system that will keep your workspace tidy.

4 Steps to an Organized Workspaceorganized

  1. Purge: Get a recycling bin and paper shredder, and spend an hour getting rid of unnecessary papers and document on your desk.
  2. Deal with Documents: Create a place for incoming and outgoing documents. Try to deal with documents as soon as they arrive into your space. Either file, recycle, or address them right away, instead of letting them pile up.
  3. Update your Filing System: If you’re not sure where to documents as they come into your workspace, it might be time to update your filing system. Be thoughtful and choose a system that works well for your needs and preferred way of organizing things.
  4. Make Organization a Regular Task: Block out time on your calendar once a month (or more) to deal with clutter that will inevitably pile up.

You’re now on your way to a more organized workspace. Do you need help keeping it clean? Give ROC Commercial Cleaning a call today.

ROC Commercial Cleaning is your trusted Twin Cities janitorial service. We provide contract cleaning for office buildings, medical and veterinary clinics, auto dealerships, salons and retail stores, industrial buildings and more. We also provide construction cleanup during and after construction projects of all sizes. No cleaning job is too big or too small for our experienced cleaning teams!

Get off the cleaning rollercoaster. Contact ROC Commercial Cleaning at 612-581-2776 for your free, no-obligation estimate.