In the wake of COVID19, sanitization has become a top priority. Washing hands and sanitizing regularly has become a norm. All corporate buildings, commercial spaces, stores, and as basic as grocery stores have installed portable hand sanitizing solutions near their entry gates. Throughout the day, we are exposed to numerous bacteria and the fear of virus infection leads to productivity loss. The good news is with proper hand hygiene compliance, you can reduce absenteeism and the cost associated with it.
By placing hand sanitizer in strategic locations throughout the office, and other high traffic areas, you can encourage workers, staff, and employees to improve their hand hygiene and make the office a healthier working environment.
Key location to install portable hand sanitizing solution
It has found that commercial spaces using alcohol-based hand sanitizer are at least five times are less likely to get sick than those who continued to just wash their hands.
The best way to remind your workers, and employees and whosoever are daily interacting with the space to use hand sanitizer is by making it easily accessible and always within sight. It’s important to place hand portable hand sanitizing station near the doors as well as around high-touch surfaces and communal areas, including:
- Entrance and exits
- Meeting rooms
- Canteen
- Pantry areas
- Food courts and break rooms
- High traffic areas
- Near escalators and elevators
- High traffic areas
By providing hand sanitizer at key locations throughout the workplace is essential to combat employee illness and absenteeism. It works best to provide them with portable hand sanitizing lotion. Make sure to use an alcohol-based hand sanitizer that has at least 70% of alcohol. The higher alcohol percentage will usually translate into higher efficacy. Look for those hand sanitization products offering a minimum kill rate of 99.999% which is more effective than 99.9% sanitizers.
