Our essential steps to help your workplace get ready to reopen

15 May. 2020

COVID-19 continues to pose a significant threat to businesses and a greater risk to the health of their employees.

As companies start to make plans to reopen following lockdown, these are some essential steps to help your business welcome back employees and customers into a safe and secure environment.

1.Before reopening your doors

Ensure that your workplace is fully clean and ready to reopen

Assess the site following closure before restarting work.
Complete disinfection before employees return to the workplace.
Check or service ventilation systems to ensure everything is operating efficiently.
Flush water systems due to pipes being unused or underused for a longer period of time.

2. Keep the workplace clean to minimise risk

Review cleaning habits to prevent virus transmission

Regularly clean workspaces and equipment between use and at the end of each shift.
Increase cleaning of all common touch points including door handles, surfaces and machinery.
Introduce more regular and enhanced cleaning of busy and frequently used areas.

3. Help and encourage employees to adopt good hygience practices.

Provide employees with easier access to sanitiser and cleaning products

Use clear signs and posters to raise awareness of good hygiene techniques.
Provide hand sanitiser in various locations in addition to washrooms.
Introduce more regular and enhanced cleaning of busy and frequently used areas.
Supply paper towels in washrooms as an alternative to hand dryers.
Provide additional waste facilties and more frequent rubbish collection.

At Veolia we continue to support the national effort to defeat COVID-19 and we are here to help those businesses that are preparing to disinfect, ready to reopen following lockdown.

As the UK's leading industrial cleaning and resource management provider, our enhanced services will give you the reassurance that COVID-19 will be eliminated from your workplace during these uncertain times.

We can offer your business a safe and compliant disinfection treatment to ensure you are ready to bring back your employees into a controlled and prepared environment.

To learn more about our COVID-19 Disinfection Services and how we can help keep your customers and employees safe please email [email protected] or complete the enquiry form below.