CALGARY- The threat of the flu bug has many businesses racing to ensure their offices aren’t a breeding ground.
While most are already cleaned daily, staff are now also paying attention to contact points that may have been touched by more than one person—like door handles, telephones, keyboards and chairs.
Cleaners are also focusing on common areas like the lunch room, wiping down fridge and microwave handles.
“You’ve got to focus on your touch points, you’ve got to focus on providing a safe environment and decreasing the opportunity of a bacteria chain developing,” explains Dan Lindsay from Servpro, adding they’ve been inundated with calls lately. “We get more requests to come in and do deep cleans, deep sanitizations of office areas…but our approach to cleaning is a cleaning for health approach all year round.”
Business experts say companies can’t afford to have potentially contaminated environments.
He says it’s important for employers to let workers stay home if they’re sick.
“If they’re truly sick they don’t want to be coming to work to infect other people in that business, because if they do that could seriously mean that the small business can’t even open their doors and would have to close for a couple of days. For a small business working on such thin profit margins that could be a catastrophic event.”
Truscott suggests companies take precautions and inform staff about how to protect themselves, to stop the spread of the flu.
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