10 Essentials for Businesses Reopening

Hand sanitizer significantly reduces the risk of transmission of disease at your workplace.  Hand sanitizer is easy to transport, quick to use, and readily available. Alcohol sanitizers are effective in reducing viruses and bacteria, destroying their outer shells, rendering them harmless. Hand sanitizer will give you confidence and peace of mind, since they are a personal item that can be carried easily around the workplace. Implementing hand hygiene programs help to encourage people to use hand sanitizers. Such programs might seem useless at first, but they have proven to be valuable and beneficial in the long run.

Today, every business needs a way of checking the temperature of clients and staff alike. It is imperative to avoid an employee reporting to work in the morning only to receive a positive test result in the next couple of days. If this happens, everyone in your business will have to quarantine. Tracking body temperature can provide early warnings of infection. It is advisable to have a thermometer at your workplace to ensure everyone allowed in your business premises has a normal temperature. Consider using the infrared thermometer; it is non-contact and gives accurate measurements in seconds. 

Antibacterial wipes have a 99% rate of killing bacteria and viruses. Just like hand sanitizers, antimicrobial wipes are easy to carry on your person, and ensure that employees are responsible for their own hygiene. With surface disinfectant wipes, employees can clean their work spaces more effectively. With superb flushable features, you can get rid of these wipes easily; they don’t have to sit in a garbage can, causing a potential hazard.

Not everyone needs to wear gloves; cashiers should be supplied with gloves, since they always handle physical money which passes through many hands. If you are a barber or working at a salon, then you should also consider having gloves to avoid direct contact with your clients. The use of gloves is common sense, but can be a good way to limit unnecessary skin-to-skin contact.

This is a popular preventive measure used everywhere. It is another personal item and it is expected that every person will carry their own. You may want to supply your employees and customers with branded face masks, as a way to market your business. It won’t hurt to have extra masks on-site too, in case people forget their own mask.

Air purifiers provide an additional layer of protection, although are not as effective as social distancing, disinfection of surfaces, or wearing masks. If your budget can accommodate air purifiers, then you can definitely include them. They are not a preventative measure, however, and when used alone without other measures, will not provide a substantial solution.

These are commonly referred to as privacy panels or clear plastic ‘sneeze guards’, and are essential in many situations. They are key when maintaining social distancing is not possible in a workplace or a crowded office. They offer effective separation and minimize unnecessary contact or close proximity to others within the workplace.

With the current situation, regular cleaning of working spaces is required; ideally both in the morning before staff arrive, and in the evening after they have left. A multi-surface disinfectant cleaner will get the job done quickly, easily and effectively.

Sanitizer spray is super easy, conveniently disinfecting personal items, especially those that you handle regularly, including mobile phones, tablents, keyboards and headphones. Definitely the best option to make sure everything is clean and free from avoidable risks.

You may consider storing 1 or 2 of these item ‘kits’ in case of an emergency and a client or an employee has to be transported to a healthcare facility. This is not something that would be used unless necessary, but better to have them available in case, rather than find yourself without when you need them most.