How to clean and disinfect offices?

Would you like to know how office disinfection is carried out? Here you will find useful information on how to properly disinfect your workplace.

1- Why and how to disinfect offices?

The current health crisis has shown how often microbes, viruses and other harmful bacteria spread at exponential speed. In companies, offices are by definition real nests and transit points for thousands of microorganisms due to the multitude of people mixing. It is therefore not enough to simply clean your offices, but above all to disinfect them. Disinfecting offices is therefore a health imperative for employees in the same department or company. How do you go about it? 

2- Office disinfection: a health and hygiene imperative!

A clean and well-cleaned workspace is necessary to preserve your health and that of your employees. The National Institute of Health and Medical Research demonstrates, for example, in a report, how the mere human presence in offices can affect the health of the premises. Thus, spittle, skin flakes or hair can spontaneously detach from an employee and settle on objects he touches.

Office disinfection becomes imperative if this person is contaminated with VIDOC-19 or any other infectious disease. And there are many objects that are susceptible to contamination and that will then need to be disinfected:

• the chairs;
• ramps;
• the telephone and other devices;
• door handles;
• electric switches
• the flat surface and the edges of the desk;
• and so on

With dust gradually settling on furniture and floors, traces of food left on tables, sputters and sneezes settling on glass surfaces and what is called in scientific language: Biofilm, it is very important to have office cleaning and disinfecting equipment in your company to eliminate it. Above all, make sure you acquire good quality equipment for professionals and industrialists.

To this end, the professional disinfection materials and products ofIBL SPECIFIK have proven their effectiveness both in the neutralisation of COVID in open spaces and in the biocleaning of dusty and dirty surfaces.

3- How does office disinfection work?

There are several ways to disinfect your offices. It depends mainly on the extent of the infection and the means at your disposal. Among other things, it is possible to disinfect by air with our Disinfection devices or physically by washing the contact surfaces prior to aerial disinfection.

3.1- Airborne disinfection

Airborne office disinfection consists of diffusing a dry mist of disinfectant contained in a fogging disinfection device throughout the volume of the premises. This technique can be effective with a good device, especially when it is used to reach corners of a room that are considered inaccessible. In this respect, the JETBIO 2020 is a disinfection device that has proven its effectiveness in completely disinfecting professional premises.

This device allows to disinfect and destroy VIDOC-19 from the surfaces of a room without human intervention. It evenly distributes the disinfectant it contains over the surfaces of the room. It is one of the most popular office disinfection equipment available today.

And not for nothing, since it manages to reach an unrivalled power of 10 m3 of disinfected volume per minute. So there is no need to wait forever to disinfect a workplace.

3.2- Physical disinfection

Unlike airborne surface disinfection , physical disinfection does not always allow access to hard-to-reach areas. It consists of removing harmful viruses and germs from frequently frequented areas through the direct intervention of a person (a disinfection professional to be more careful).

For good office disinfection, it is recommended to use professional and industrial steam cleaners, making sure that the disinfectants used are organic and without any added stabilizing agent. This ensures that the products used will not be toxic to the working environment. You can consult for this purpose, disinfection products from IBL SPECIFIK which are 100% organic, ecological and non-toxic for humans, animals and their environments.

4- Office disinfection: a few useful tips!

Before disinfecting your premises, make sure that the work areas are tidy and clear, so that the cleaning agents can carry out optimal cleaning. Immediately after disinfecting the offices, it must be ensured that the objects often handled by several employees have actually been touched by the disinfectant.

Carpets, rugs and curtains must also be regularly disinfected. The same applies to :

• door and window handles;
• elevator buttons
• switches
• counters
• Distributors
• and so on

It is also important to purify the ambient air, especially in air-conditioned rooms. With a high pressure, high temperature steam cleaner, it is indeed possible to use steam as a disinfectant thanks to its high temperature. At IBL Specifik you will also find this type of product. special air conditioning to purify the air for a good disinfection of the offices.

Finally, don't forget to ventilate your premises as much as possible and to increase the number of times your cleaning team visits. These days, you can't be too careful!