How Disinfectants Can Help Businesses to Reopen Safely

When businesses reopen after a period of stay-at-home orders, they must be ready to adhere to CDC and state guidelines to protect employees and customers. This can be a difficult time for businesses to get back on track and reopen safely.

The safety protocols of hospitals and grocery stores that stayed open during the COVID-19 pandemic can offer ideas for reopening your business in a safe manner. By implementing these guidelines, you’ll regain customer trust and loyalty.

Cleanliness

As businesses and facilities that sat idle begin to reopen, it’s important to keep the workplace clean and disinfected. This ensures a safe working environment, as well as reassures customers that you take their health seriously.

A lack of cleanliness in a building can make it look unappealing to customers and can also make people feel uncomfortable. This is especially true for those that work in retail or restaurants, where the food industry has been impacted the most by the COVID-19 pandemic.

For these reasons, it’s essential to implement new cleaning and disinfection procedures as soon as possible. These can include cleaning and disinfecting frequently touched surfaces, such as doorknobs, light switches, counter tops, handles, phones, keyboards, and toilets.

Disinfection

There are many different disinfectants that have been approved by the EPA to kill both viruses and bacteria on hard surfaces. They are easy to use, are not toxic and are affordable.

During COVID-19 season, it is important that all hard surfaces throughout a building are routinely disinfected several times a day to help keep your facility safe and secure. Disinfectants that are formulated with a strong concentration of alcohol can eradicate a variety of viruses and pathogens, including coronavirus.

Sanitizing is the process of reducing germs and contamination on a surface, such as by soap and water or with an enzymatic cleaner. This reduces the number of germs on a surface to levels that are considered safe by public health standards and regulations.

Signage

Whether you’re opening your business for the first time or reopening after a long pause, it is important to help your customers and employees to feel safe. That’s where signage comes in.

Signage can be used for a variety of reasons, from helping customers find their way around to communicating specific information about your product or service. It can also help to create a positive atmosphere and evoke a sense of joy among visitors.

The way you design and position your signs will determine how effective they are. For example, signs that are too cluttered with text and graphics can cause cognitive overload for your customers, which may negatively affect their decision making.

On the other hand, well-designed signage that communicates clear messages can be a powerful tool in persuading potential buyers to choose your brand over your competitors. It is a cost-effective and efficient marketing strategy that can help businesses to attract new customers and increase sales.

Communication

As a business owner, it is important to communicate your reopening plan with employees and customers. Using communication channels like email, social media, and newsletters will help you reach your customers and keep them up to date.

Before your reopening, it is important to have a thorough reopening plan in place and follow all the necessary safety protocols. Communicating with your staff and ensuring they are well informed will ensure that all of your employees and customers can work safely during the reopening period.

While this is happening, it is also important to ensure that your business remains open. This includes making sure that your customers can access you from home if they need to, or from their car.

It is also essential that you screen guests entering your office. Ideally, you will do this with AlertMedia’s survey feature to screen for COVID-19 symptoms before they enter the building.