Clean Workplaces Help Prevent Employee Illnesses in Business and at Work

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.

• • A list of DEC-approved cleaning products from the NYS Department of Health website is attached.

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?