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School administrators are facing perhaps their most difficult fall season ever. Getting back to school has never been more uncertain or complicated. Ensuring the safety of students and faculty during the COVID-19 pandemic has raised some challenging questions, many of them about cleanliness and disinfection. Infection control in schools is always a concern because of influenza and bacteria such as MRSA and C. diff, but COVID-19 presents new questions. Principals and school boards are seeking information and they often turn to commercial cleaning professionals for the answers.

One thing the world has learned from the COVID-19 pandemic is that most businesses were not prepared for infection control within their facilities. To address the concern for infection risk as businesses return to work, ServiceMaster Clean has developed a comprehensive, science-based cleaning and disinfecting program to provide preventative health and safety services in the workplace. PROTECT-3 ADVANCE™ is a full-spectrum cleaning and disinfection system, designed to reduce risk and provide continued protection against infectious outbreaks in all types of work environments.

As rates of COVID-19 infection gradually decline and some parts of the world are cautiously emerging from the pandemic, the main question on everyone’s mind is what does the new normal look like?

Lately, people may have heard references to the term epidemiology.  So, what exactly is that?  According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, epidemiology is “a branch of medical science that deals with the incidence, distribution, and control of disease in a population”.  While doctors and clinicians deal with the effects of disease within a single person, i.e. they work one-on-one with patients to diagnose problems and determine what can be done to make them healthier, epidemiologists are concerned with how diseases affect society as a whole.

Keeping your office clean, safe and healthy is important at any time, but during the COVID-19 pandemic it is crucial. Professional commercial cleaning staff can properly clean and disinfect your workplace, but they need to be able to work in an uncluttered environment to produce optimal sanitary results. This means desktops and work areas must be cleared of papers and objects prior to cleaning, so that all areas can be accessed for full-scale, professional sanitization.