3 Tips To Keep High Traffic Areas In Your Facility Clean
Maintaining cleanliness of high-traffic areas is not as difficult as it seems. Here’s how.
First things first — What is a high-traffic facility?
Simply put, it is that area or facility that has heavy foot traffic and human activity. Typical examples — a gym, café, restaurant, supermarket, shopping mall, workspace, school and entrances and exits of all buildings. And, these facilities experience varying levels of mess and dirt, making them susceptible to infection and germ spread.
Why is cleaning a super challenge for a high-traffic facility?
The singular and obvious reason is the constant movement of people in the facility. Imagine swabbing a large part of your facility’s floor 5 minutes back only to be dirtied by the mud-ridden shoes of your customer.
Will you leave the mud stains, or will you clean the floor ASAP? You know the response.
The Cost of Dirt
Many people consider cleanliness as the most important factor for consumers when evaluating a restaurant or a hotel.
Similarly, gym-goers expect their gym to be germ-free. Restaurants, hotels and gyms aren’t the only high-traffic places where dirt and mess are deterrents. Would you like to step into:
An unkempt clinic?
A dirty supermarket?
An unhygienic and stinking restroom?
The appreciation of cleanliness is universal and perhaps the single-most factor for devaluing your facility’s worth. Let’s face it, no one likes to be in an unclean facility. And, mind you, an unclean floor is just one of the examples of constant mess and dirt in a high-traffic facility.
So, how to tackle this situation? By imbibing the below-mentioned Best Practices into your cleaning programme.
#1] Create a cleaning checklist
Determine what areas need cleanliness and what areas need sanitization. Create a detailed cleaning guidelines sheet that mentions the:
Cleaning products to be used
Frequency of cleaning and sanitization
Manner of cleaning
Staff responsible for cleaning
Tips to avoid cross-contamination
#2] Mat All Your Entries
You could avoid the mess of muddy floors and the burden of repetitive floor cleaning by providing mats at all entryways. This practice will make visitors wipe their feet, so they don’t track mud into the office. And, remember to clean entryway mats frequently, or else the purpose is defeated.
Abrasion from dust is also the major cause of rapid deterioration of shine from floor types, such as marble, kota or vinyl. Arresting the dust at the entrance itself goes a long way towards maintaining these floors’ shine for a long time, thus reducing the cost in the restoration process.
#3] Use the right cleaning products
Use non-toxic, hypoallergenic products that won’t inconvenience people and also serve the purpose.
- Floor Cleaning with Crew Disinfectant Floor Cleaner
This cleaner-cum-disinfectant is fully formulated to clean and sanitize hard surfaces. It kills 99.9% of all pathogenic bacteria and removes stubborn stains. It is safe for use on marble and granite and is very effective in all water conditions.
This floor cleaner is a disinfectant cleaner that is free of bleach and any abrasives. It is available in different scents: Neem, citrus and floral. This product can also be used for hard surface cleaning and disinfection when used as per instructions.
- Glass Cleaning with Crew Concentrated Glass and Household Cleaner
This all-in-one cleaning formulation is excellent for all types of glass surfaces — Mirrors, window glasses, glass tabletops, and TV screens. It is a solvent-free formulation with a neutral pH and makes glass cleaning:
⦿ Swift, streak-free and cost-effective in a single action.
⦿ Oil-free and fingerprint-free.
- Bathroom Cleaning with Crew Bathroom Cleaner and Descaler
This cleaner is fully formulated to clean all fittings and walls in the bathroom — sink, tub, tiles, and fittings. It works excellent in hard water conditions. This bathroom cleaner with 3 in 1 action:
⦿ Quickly removes oil stains and watermarks.
⦿ Can also be used as a bathroom floor cleaner.
⦿ Prevents scale deposition on walls and fittings of your bathroom.
Using a specialized product for daily bathroom cleaning ensures there is no strong scale build up, bringing down the frequency of periodic maintenance and thus the cost.
- Maintenance of Urinals with Crew Urinal Screen
In restrooms of high traffic facilities, strong odors could linger and spread to other areas. Customers will equate an unpleasant-smelling urinal with a lack of cleanliness. Hence, it is critical to install urinal screens to provide a pleasant, clean scent.
Crew Urinal Screen is designed specially to deodorize urinals, ducking the need to use an external fragrance system. It provides a controlled and consistent fragrance release, using proprietary polymerized fragrances and a polymer-based delivery system. It is made with recyclable EVA polymer and hence it is safe to use and dispose of.
To Conclude
At the end of the day, it is also important to nurture a mindset of cleanliness in your facility. Set up cleaning and hand-sanitizing stations in high-traffic areas. Have sign boards and posters to remind people about healthy habits. Hold your staff accountable for cleaning.
This culture along with following the above-stated guidelines will help you make cleaning hassle-free and more productive for your high-traffic facility, which in turn will result in a better maintained and cost-saving facility.
And, when it comes to effective, cost-effective, hassle-free, 100% safe, and swift housekeeping, trust Diversey Prosumer’s Crew Housekeeping portfolio.
