What are some of the biggest challenges of operating a cleaning company during the pandemic?
Daily managing a team is never easy without a great operation manager and excellent team leaders. Handling clients or customer expectations are one of the many daily tasks. Explaining the difference between cleaning and disinfecting service does come with a challenge as customers usually lump these two services together.
Currently with the pandemic scares, we need to explain to customers that Covid-19 is a respiratory illness that spreads through droplets from an infected person’s cough or sneeze and by contact with contaminated hands, surfaces or objects. And depending on the temperature, humidity and nature of the material, current evidence suggests that Covid-19 may remain contagious on a surface for two to three days on average.
Studies and Dream Sparkle’s years of disinfecting experience shows the importance of practicing good office hygiene. Regularly cleaning and disinfecting shared surfaces and high touch point areas (phones, keyboards, computer mice, desktops, door handles and security card readers) is crucial to slowing the spread Covid-19.
Dust, dirt and residue on a surface can inactivate many disinfectants. Hence, physically wiping away surface contamination first with a detergent is required prior to sanitising with the authority stated active ingredients to be effective against viruses.
