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Cleaning frequency

One of the outcomes of the COVID-19 pandemic is that people have come to understand how often facilities need to be cleaned to put up a fight against the spread of viruses. Previously, it might have been enough to conduct a single daily cleaning of a space and mark it as done on a janitorial inspection checklist. We all hope to get back to that standard one day, but in the immediate aftermath of the pandemic, once a day won’t cut it.

Inspections need to track the cleaning frequency of spaces throughout the day. This can be challenging since you likely won’t have cleaning staff on-site all day, and therefore it’s hard to know for sure what’s being cleaned and when. You may have to work closely with school officials and staff to develop a plan that allows for multiple daily cleanings of things like desks and chairs, lunchroom tables, gym equipment, and other high-touch surfaces where a virus can linger and find new hosts. Holding school staff accountable probably won’t fall within the realm of your business’ responsibility. Still, it wouldn’t hurt to have a check box for inspection reports that can reasonably assert that rooms get cleaned throughout the day instead of the single cleaning each night that your company likely performs.