Cold & Flu Prevention: 3 Must-Have Products for the Office
Having a sanitary workplace is vital to maintaining the health and safety of your employees. That’s why it’s important to control the spread of illness-causing bacteria and germs in your facility.
季节性流感和常见的寒冷导致病人增加，并且可以在雇主养成雇主$17 billion in lost productivity在average. Because of this, you may be interested in ways to reduce illness in your workplace.
不幸的是，疾病导致的细菌很容易通过空降传播droplets and from surfaces细菌藏的地方。
在一个正面纸币，proper cleaning and disinfectionof high-touch surfaces has been proven to be one of the most effective ways to minimize the risk of spreading sickness in your facility.
However, this regular cleaning and disinfection by your cleaning team may not be enough. You’ll likely need to enlist the help of your building occupants to keep your building as clean, healthy, and safe as possible.
To combat the spread of germs, your guests, employees, and others in your building should be encouraged to support your janitorial team in their efforts to reduce germ spread.
The best way to do this is by providing the people in your building with products that encourage frequent disinfection and promote good hygiene.
Giving your employees access to cleaning and disinfecting supplies as well as other products that are designed to prevent germ spread will lower the risk of illness in your facility.
In this article, we’ll review 3 products that every commercial office needs to offer to minimize the spread of illness.
Cold & Flu Prevention: 3 Must-Have Products for the Office
1.消毒擦拭饼
Routine disinfection is a key part of every cleaning program. It ensures that bacteria and other germs are eliminated from the surfaces that your employees touch regularly.
The areas which are most prone to contamination are those that are most frequently touched or visited. These are commonly called high-touch surfaces.
High-touch surfaces in your office include:
电梯按钮- 键盘
- 电脑鼠标
- Chair Arms
- Copier Machine Buttons
- 灯开关
- Soap Dispensers
- 龙头
- Tables in common spaces
- Doorknobs
- 灯开关
- Door handles
- Bathroom Stalls
- Grab bars
- Water fountains
- 台面
- 备产桌子
- 冰箱手柄
- 毛巾分配器
- Phones
电梯按钮消毒湿巾是一种简单，安全，即用的方式，可以在您的设施内从高触摸表面打击细菌的蔓延。
They’re most effective when not only given to your staff but supplied to building occupants.
Providing and promoting the use of disinfecting wipes encourage people to take their health into their own hands. It also helps lessen the burden on your cleaning team.
Making disinfecting wipes available to the people in your building will give them an easy way to make sure the surfaces they touch have been disinfected. Disinfecting wipes allow individuals to remove their own germs from surfaces around your facility before and after use in addition to routine cleaning by your janitorial team.
使用消毒湿度的益处，以防止办公室的感冒和流感
减少化学曝光
消毒湿巾是一种安全的方法，可以从经常触及的表面中除去细菌和细菌。
Unlike sprays and diluted disinfectants, wipes don’t release chemicals into the air when applied. When wipes are removed from their container, the disinfectant is immediately wiped onto the surface being disinfected.
Wipes help your staff to control where your disinfectant chemical is applied. With the use of wipes, chemicals can be applied accurately without the worry of the chemicals spreading across a surface or into the air.
除了将化学释放降至空气之外，消毒湿度也会减少化学品的数量，在使用过程中将建筑物的人们暴露。例如，一些消毒湿巾不需要在使用过程中佩戴手套或PPE。
Ease of Use
除了他们的安全益处外，消毒湿巾也是一次性的，可以将清洁过程结合到一个步骤中。在消毒表面之前，应该清洁任何可见的土壤 - 这需要首先清洁表面。
消毒有the one-step process or the two-step process.使用清洁/消毒擦拭,surfaces can be cleaned and disinfected using the same product.
Instead of having to use two different chemicals to complete cleaning and disinfection, your staff can complete cleaning and disinfection in one step as long as there are no visible soils.
Germ spread is dramatically reduced by providing the people in your office with disinfection wipes.
Where Should I Place Disinfecting Wipes To Encourage Use In The Office?
Aside from stocking your janitorial cart with disinfecting wipes, they should also be provided to individuals and staged in certain areas of the building to encourage increased use.
Place Disinfecting Wipes at Individual Workstations
消毒擦拭巾应放在各个工作站上，为您的员工使用办公桌和整个个人工作空间。
By providing your staff with access to wipes at their desks, they are encouraged to wipe down their surfaces regularly.
这在共享工作区中尤为重要，如在工人处于旋转时间表的设施中。
When the people in your building wipe down their own space, your janitorial team can focus on common and other high-risk areas.
将消毒擦拭物放在普通和其他高交通区
High-traffic areas pose a greater risk of germ transmission. While your janitorial team will clean these as often as possible, disinfecting wipes should also be placed in high-traffic areas to encourage occupants to wipe down the area before and after use.
When your employees are able to see disinfecting wipes in the areas they use most often, they’re more likely to use the disinfecting wipes before and after use.
从管理（电子邮件，海报，符号）的通信，描述何时以及如何使用消毒擦拭物，可以在整个设施中加强使用。
例如，如果您在会议室中放置消毒擦拭饼干，那里还有一个迹象，其中询问使用桌子在使用后擦拭，那么在会议后，您的员工会擦除他们触摸的表面。
我们建议您放置消毒湿巾：
- In cafeterias
- In meeting rooms
- At desks
- On conference tables
- 在备写空间柜台上
- 和其他高交通的领域
2. Hand Sanitizer
Along with providing occupants with disinfecting wipes,your staff should have access toalcohol-based or Benzalkonium Chloride hand sanitizer（非酒精的洗脱液剂）。
According to the CDC, hand sanitizers are effective at reducing the number of germs on the hand quickly in between handwashing and/or when handwashing is not possible. For example, if an employee washes their hands and then touches an elevator call button, they may not have the time to return to a handwashing sink. In this case, it would be most beneficial for your employees to use hand sanitizer.
使用洗手液促进办公室寒冷和流感的好处
Easily Accessible
手动清理剂是在洗手所带来或过度的情况下的肥皂和水的方便替代方案。
Unlike hand washing, sanitizing can be done on the move and more frequently. This allows your staff to clean their hands after touching high-touch surfaces without having to travel to the nearest sink.
According to this学习由Hübner等，使用含酒精的洗手液可以显着lower the frequency of coldswhen used along with proper handwashing.
通过不锈钢分配器涂抹的减少
Since hand sanitizer can be distributed using touch-free dispensers, employees don’t have to worry about spreading germs through touching dispenser pumps.
无风疗法消毒器分配器使您的员工可以接受所需的消毒剂，而不会暴露于已经在分配器上的细菌。
随着手的浪潮，他们可以进入适量的手动消毒剂，避免拾取或沉积细菌。
Where Should I Place Hand Sanitizer To Encourage Use In The Office?
使用洗手液的第一步是使您在建筑物中的人员提供。类似于消毒擦拭饼，应在各个层面上提供手动消毒剂，并放置在具有易于访问的高交通区域。
个体手动消毒剂
单个手动消毒剂应分发在书桌上。
Individual hand sanitizer bottles can come with either a flip cap or a pump top. They can even come as wipes which are safe to kill germs on hands.
By providing your employees with access to individual hand sanitizer, they are able to clean their hands at their personal desks, without having to get up. The ease of access will encourage them to apply sanitizer when they approach their personal workspace before they touch anything.
Commercial Hand Sanitizer Dispensers
Hand sanitizer dispensers should be placed throughout your office space for maximum effectiveness and increased use.
无障碍护肤分配器可以通过鼓励您的建筑物中的人们更频繁地消毒他们的手来加强您的工厂的手卫生计划。
The more conveniently placed your hand sanitizer dispensers, the more likely people are to use them. For example, a dispenser placed at the entrance of a common area, like a break room, can encourage your employees to sanitize their hands before eating.
应放置手动消毒器分配器：
- Outside of meeting rooms
- By elevators
- 在自助餐厅空间的入口处
- 入口处
- Near any high-touch surfaces
- 通过面部组织支架
- Near garbage cans
面部组织
在寒冷和流感季节咳嗽和打喷嚏达到顶峰时，为您的员工提供对面部组织的员工尤为重要。
Covering coughs and sneezes is helpful in preventing the spread of illnesses.
使用面部组织覆盖c打喷嚏和咳嗽an minimize how far droplets spread in your facility. Without facial tissue, people may openly sneeze or cough - increasing germ spread.
Benefits Of Using Facial Tissue To Prevent Cold And Flu In The Office
Providing the people in your facility with facial tissues encourages them to sneeze and cough into the tissues instead of into the air.
If someone in your facility is sick, they can spread pathogens through airborne droplets. Sneezing can produce about40,000 dropletswhile coughing can produce around3000.
By covering their cough or sneeze with a tissue, the number of droplets that are expelled into the air is reduced drastically. And since they are disposable, your staff can use a tissue to catch droplets and then promptly dispose of them in the trash.
Where Should I Place Facial Tissues To Combat Cold and Flu In The Office?
将面部组织放置在个别工作站
Facial tissues can be placed on individual desks and workstations so that your employees have direct access to them.
Place Facial Tissues in Common and Other High Traffic Areas
You can also place tissues in central areas, like in hallways or break areas, and near hand sanitizer dispensers.
将组织放在中心区域将使它们更容易使用。如果他们需要组织，你的员工不需要走远。
Having hand sanitizer nearby will be helpful in encouraging your employees to sanitize their hands after disposing of used tissue.
最后的想法
尽量减少感冒的传播和flu throughout your facility is important to protecting the health and safety of your employees.
Adding some or all of these cold and flu prevention essentials to your facility will help reduce sickness in your facility.
提供您的员工可以访问消毒擦拭饼干，使它们能够消毒清洁程序之间通常使用的表面。您的员工能够将其安全带入自己的手，并确保他们正在卫生空间工作。
除了个体表面消毒外，还应在整个设施中放置手动消毒剂站，鼓励您的员工更频繁地消毒他们的手。
Facial tissue should also be placed in your facility to encourage your employees to contain their sneezes and coughs. This will help minimize the presence of germ spread.
It’s important to make these products widely available to everyone in your facility. Strategic placement will encourage your building’s occupants to use these products to maintain their health and wellness.
EBP and other Imperial Dade locations have a wide range of products to help you prevent the spread of illnesses like the common cold and the flu throughout your facility.
If you’re located in the United States, Puerto Rico, or the Caribbean, you can联系我们的专家s to determine how to best combat an outbreak of the cold and flu in your facility.
