How do you clean and disinfect offices?

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1- Why and how should offices be disinfected?

The current health crisis has demonstrated just how often microbes, viruses and other harmful bacteria spread at exponential speed. In a company, offices are by definition veritable nests and transit points for thousands of micro-organisms due to the multitude of people mixing together. So it's not enough simply to clean your offices; you also need to disinfect them. Disinfecting offices is a health imperative for employees in the same department or company. So how do you go about it? 

2- Office disinfection: a health and hygiene imperative!

A clean and well-cleaned workspace is essential to protect your health and that of your employees. The French National Institute for Health and Medical Research One report, for example, shows how the mere presence of people in offices can affect the health of the premises. Spittle, skin flakes and hair can spontaneously come off an employee and be deposited on objects they touch.

Office disinfection becomes imperative if this person is contaminated by COVID-19 or any other infectious disease. And there are many objects likely to be contaminated that will need to be disinfected:

• chairs ;
• ramps ;
• the telephone and other devices ;
• door handles ;
• electrical switches
• the flat surface and edges of the desk;
• etc.

With dust gradually settling on furniture and floors, traces of food left on tables, and sputum and sneezes deposited on glass surfaces, known in scientific terms as biofilm, it's very important to have office cleaning and disinfecting equipment in your company to eliminate it. Above all, make sure you buy good quality equipment designed for professional and industrial use.

IBL SPECIFIK's professional disinfection equipment and products have proven their effectiveness both in neutralising COVID in open spaces and in biocleaning dusty and dirty surfaces.

3- How is office disinfection carried out?

There are several ways to disinfect your office. It all depends on the extent of the infection and the resources at your disposal. For example, you can disinfect by air with our Disinfection equipment or physically by washing contact surfaces before disinfecting by air.

3.1- Airborne disinfection

Aerial disinfection of offices involves diffusing a dry mist of disinfectant contained in a disinfectant fogging device throughout the premises. With the right equipment, this technique can be effective, especially when it allows you to reach inaccessible corners of a room. The JETBIO 2020 is a disinfection appliance that has proved its effectiveness in disinfecting entire business premises.

This device disinfects and destroys COVID-19 on the surfaces of a room without human intervention. It distributes the disinfectant it contains evenly over the surfaces in the room. It is one of the most popular office disinfectants at the moment.

And not for nothing, since it achieves an unprecedented 10 m3 of disinfected volume per minute. So there's no need to wait an eternity to disinfect a workplace.

3.2- Physical disinfection

Unlike aerial surface disinfection (ASD), physical disinfection does not always allow access to hard-to-reach areas. It involves removing harmful viruses and germs from frequently visited areas, by direct intervention by a person (a disinfection professional, to be on the safe side).

For proper office disinfection, we recommend using professional and industrial steam cleaners, making sure that the disinfectants used are organic and contain no added stabilising agents. This ensures that the products used are not toxic to the working environment. For more information, please consult, disinfection products from IBL SPECIFIK which are 100% Biological, ecological and non-toxic for humans, animals and their environment.

4- Office disinfection: some useful tips!

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

Carpets and curtains should also be disinfected regularly. The same applies to :

• door and window handles ;
• lift buttons
• switches
• the counters
• distributors
• etc.

It is also important to purify the ambient air, particularly in air-conditioned premises. With a high-pressure, high-temperature steam cleaner, it is possible to use steam as a disinfectant, thanks to its high temperature. At IBL Specifik, you'll also find this type of product special air conditioning to purify the air and disinfect offices.

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