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Keep Your Workplace Safe This Flu Season!

Cold and flu is natural, but painful! And staying away from it when the same goes viral is challenging! Especially in your work places.

By Lauren WilliamsonPublished 4 years ago 3 min read
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Cold and flu is natural, but painful! And staying away from it when the same goes viral is challenging! Especially in your work places. These are the centres where lots of people mingle daily and communicate in some way or another. Getting infected with the cold is but natural. But staying safe is an option we all do have even in such a circumstance.

When you own a company where dozens of workers work under you, ensuring their safety and good health is essential. And this responsibility of yours tends to double-up when there’s a flu season going viral in your city. Because of you neglecting the health and cleanliness factor during this period, it may drastically affect your workers and the overall performance of the company as a consequence.

How to ensure hundred percent safety at the workplace from the flu when it’s viral?

Flu has this tendency to capture lots of people at the same time! To stay safe from this, lots of precautions and measures are needed both personally and publicly. As entrepreneurs, you should be more worried if such an infection is going viral. You’ll have to follow the below tips to make sure that the flu season (and the spread of infection) doesn’t harm your office staff, the work performance and ultimately your company’s reputation:.

Let the sick go for a leave — It doesn’t harm to grant a leave for a day or two to the flu infected staff (rather than getting the entire staff infected through this one person). If a worker shows some signs of flu and even the reports confirm so, let the person rest (or work from home) and stay away from the office for some days.

Maintain extra hygiene and sanitation — Once there is more than one case of flu in your office; ensure to maintain extra care and hygiene in the place. You can distribute some masks to your staff and provide the bottles of hand sanitisers for extra cleanliness and so on. Also, keep a close check-up on your canteen’s cleanliness and hygiene of the food prepared and served here.

Hire a professional cleaning company — Maintaining constant cleanliness is essential in order to stay free of any infection and flu. The best trick to attain the same is to hire a professional cleaning company that offers all sorts of cleaning jobs like – bathroom, and kitchen deep cleaning, tile or carpet cleaning in Canberra, Blue Cleaning Group takes such contracts for residential and commercial cleaning and ensures that proper cleanliness and hygiene is maintained in your office. And if you are wondering why so much emphasis on carpet cleaning – check the amount of germs, allergens and dust-mites that carpets can trap!

Provide vaccination — Group vaccination camps are common during the onset of flu season. You can organise such camps in your workplace and ensure all your workers including you are getting vaccinated.

Stock flu tablets and medicines at your workplace for emergencies— You never know when you can find a sudden case of flu in your office. It’s necessary to keep first aid at your disposal for such surprise cases. Keep a stock of paracetamol, painkillers and pain relief ointments for such emergencies.

Flu is really unfortunate and no one deserves such pain and inconvenience in their life. But it’s natural and such diseases do occur in everyone’s life at one stage or another. And if it’s in your workplace, the infection turns all the more inconvenient. That’s why do follow the above steps and stay safe from it and keep your staff safe too!

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