As you know from our previous blogs, maintaining a clean and hygienic workplace ensures the health and safety of employees. The same applies with co-working environments, ensuring members' health and well-being are prioritised.
Co-working spaces can pose numerous cleaning challenges. Most have high foot-traffic, with different people taking up different spaces on a desk, setting up their laptop and getting to work. The good news is that there are some tips to follow to ensure your co-working environment is clean and healthy:
Having a co-working environment, means ensuring the health and safety of your members. Promoting good hygiene practices is essential. This can be done by encouraging members to maintain good personal hygiene. Viruses and bacteria can accumulate and spread among members in a co-working environment, which increases transmission, and illness.
By creating a co-working environment that prioritises collective responsibility to stop the spread of illness is an effective way to improve the hygiene of your space.
Setting cleanliness standards and communicating your expectations is one thing, but you cannot hold members accountable, if you do not provide them with the cleaning and sanitisation products they need. You need to ensure easy access to cleaning materials, which also highlights your commitment to a clean and healthy workspace.
It's important to focus on high-touch surfaces and sanitise them multiple times daily to reduce the spread of germs. High-touch surfaces are areas that are touched by human hands instinctively throughout the day, harbouring germs, and spreading illness. These surfaces include door handles, light switches, elevator buttons, coffee machines, microwaves, and toilet handles, to name a few.
If your co-working environment provides basic desktop accessories, such as monitors, keyboards, mice, and mouse pads, these will need regular sanitising. Ensure you use the right sanitiser on these items that reduces the spread of germs, without being harmful to the electronics.
Ensure you centralise the bins in easy access areas throughout the co-working environment. This can be individual bins by each work station to bins in the communal kitchen, break room, or bathroom. This encourages members to dispose of their rubbish in an effective way.
Cleanliness in co-working environments is essential to the overall experience of users. You want to ensure you provide a clean, hygienic, and safe environment. Consider partnering with the professionals. Sloane Cleaning Services has been providing effective commercial cleaning services to clients throughout London for more than 40 years. We know what it takes to keep your co-working environment spotless and hygienic. Contact us today for a free, no obligation quote.