Clean Workplaces Help Prevent Employee Illnesses in Business and at Work

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This past weekend, I reached out to clients with this reminder to help minimize the spread of COVID-19, flu and colds:

  • Wash your hands often with soap and water for at least 20 seconds, especially before and after eating and using the restroom.
  • Cover your cough or sneeze with a tissue, then throw the tissue in the trash – then wash your hands.
  • Avoid close contact with people who are sick.
  • Stay home / work remotely when you’re sick.

As a business owner with no paid sick leave, I try my best to follow the above advice – and I’m mostly successful. I’ve carried small bottles of hand sanitizer in every bag I carry and in my car for years now.

Even more effective is the following advice:

  • Clean / disinfect your workplace frequently: doorknobs, work stations / desks, phones, computers, bathroom fixtures, light switches – any surfaces that are frequently touched.

One client made it through a past cold and flu season with no employee sickness at all, thanks to the above workplace cleaning guidelines.

Whether it’s preventing the flu, colds or COVID-19: how do you best keep your workplace clean and disinfected to in turn keep your employees well, in business and at work?

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