Keeping Your Business Clean Between Professional Cleaning Services
Maintaining a clean and professional workspace is important in all industries, and hiring commercial cleaners to take care of it is a great choice. This saves you time, so you can focus more on the success of your business and supporting your staff and clients.
However, depending on your industry and cleaning plan, you may need to give your space a little care between services. In this article, we will explore some things you can do to keep your workspace consistently clean and tidy.
Importance of Inbetween Cleaning
In businesses where you’re catering to several employees or customers coming and going constantly, even daily cleaning services may not be enough to stay on top of the mess. While there’s nothing wrong with a business looking lived-in, there’s a fine line between it becoming unprofessional.
Childcare centres and schools for example can become dirty quickly throughout the day with children enjoying snacks or getting creative with arts and crafts. Similarly, shopping centres, retail stores and offices all have heavy foot traffic daily that can bring crumbs, dirt and other rubbish that can make your space look unkempt.
To manage this and keep your business looking professional and welcoming, you may have to implement some cleaning measures yourself, just to get to your next professional service.
How to Maintain Your Business
General Tidying
Whether working with children or adults, clutter is almost inevitable. Many of us are guilty of letting messes accumulate before eventually tidying them, the same is common in businesses. Whether it’s toys, stationery or products discarded in the wrong sections, regular tidying is needed.
To combat this, you can encourage clean-up times around lunch breaks or at the end of the day. This is already common practice in many childcare and school settings but also offers benefits in commercial offices and retail stores to keep workspaces tidy and stores well-presented.
Remove Rubbish & Food
Maintaining cleanliness in shared spaces starts with proper waste disposal and food storage. Encourage both children and employees to discard rubbish appropriately and ensure food is stored securely to prevent any potential issues.
For instance, request that staff avoid leaving snacks, especially open ones, in lockers or at their desks. Leftover food can attract pests or produce unpleasant odours as it goes bad, causing discomfort and hygiene concerns.
It’s equally important to keep shared dining areas and kitchenettes tidy. Encourage staff to clean up these spaces after use, ensuring they’re ready for the next person. If your workplace has shared appliances like a coffee machine, microwave, or other cooking equipment, implement a system for shared cleaning responsibilities. This not only keeps these facilities hygienic but also promotes a sense of accountability and teamwork among employees.
Disinfect High-Touch Surfaces
Wiping down high-touch surfaces after each use can help to minimise the spread of germs during the day. While this was a common practice during COVID-19 times, it has quickly become less common, however, it is still highly beneficial.
Keeping disinfectant wipes onsite can encourage staff or customers to wipe down their work surfaces after each use to prevent germ spread or clean any messes.
Clean Spills Immediately
Cleaning any spills as soon as possible can also help keep your business clean and professional. While it may be tempting to leave it for the professional cleaners at the end of the day, food or drink spills can cause stains almost immediately and unpleasant smells throughout your workspace.
Similarly, paint, ink, glue and other arts and crafts spills can spread quickly if walked through or touched and can stain surfaces throughout your business. To minimise mess and lasting stains that detract from the appearance of your business, it’s important to clean spills immediately.
Maintain Shared Spaces
Shared spaces where multiple staff members, clients or visitors frequent can become dirty fast. Maintaining these spaces should be a team effort. This can mean encouraging everyone to dispose of their own rubbish, take their belongings with them and wipe down surfaces before leaving.
With everyone playing their part, these spaces will remain neat and aesthetically pleasing, even with constant use.
Quick Vacuums
Keeping a small vacuum on the premises can help with maintaining clean and appealing walkways. This allows you to do a quick spot vacuum when crumbs are spilled or if something shatters.
It may also be beneficial to do quick vacuums to remove obvious dirt or messes from floors before hosting clients or guests on your premises, to ensure you are putting your best foot forward.
Keep Your Business Consistently Welcoming and Appealing
By implementing a few cleaning techniques and measures, your business will stay pleasant and hygienic between cleans. We’re not saying this will get you out of needing professional services, but it will help you maintain your professional image until your next service.
However, if you’re doing sporadic cleaning and still finding that your business isn’t lasting until the cleaners arrive, you can consider changing your arrangements for more frequent cleaning services. Contact our professional commercial cleaners today to discuss your business’s cleaning needs, and make sure your business always looks great!