The professional cleaning industry is increasingly concerned about COVID-19 (coronavirus). <\/p>\n\n\n\n
When at work, cleaning professionals are urged to wash hands frequently and when wearing gloves change them if visibly soiled, torn, punctured, and after cleaning one area and before moving on to work another area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It’s a good idea to follow some of the steps implemented in health-care facilities to help stop the spread of infection. This is especially true when it comes to floor cleaning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A 2017 study, “Are hospital floors an underappreciated reservoir for transmission of healthcare-associated pathogens?”, published in the American Journal of Infection Control<\/em>, stated:<\/p>\n\n\n\n “Hospital room floors may be an overlooked source of infection. Because items in the patient’s room may touch the floor, pathogens on hospital floors can rapidly move to the hands and high-touch surfaces throughout a hospital room.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n The researchers tested 318 floor sites in 159 patient rooms. They found that the floors in these rooms were often contaminated with Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and Vancomycin-resistant (VRE), both resistant to antibiotics, and C. difficile, which can cause intestinal infections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “Efforts to improve disinfection in the hospital environment usually focus on surfaces that are frequently touched,” said the researchers. “Although healthcare facility floors are often heavily contaminated, limited attention has been paid to disinfection of floors because they are not frequently touched.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “[However], the results of our study suggest that floors in hospital rooms could be \u2026 a source of pathogens and are an important area for additional research.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n This applies not to just hospital floors but floors in all types of facilities. One way to help eliminate this ‘underappreciated source of pathogens’ is to stop mopping floors. Mops can spread contamination. Floor cleaning alternatives that do not involve mops should be selected. It\u2019s more important today than ever before.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The professional cleaning industry is increasingly concerned about COVID-19 (coronavirus). When at work, cleaning professionals are urged to wash hands frequently and when wearing gloves change them if visibly soiled, torn, punctured, and after cleaning one area and before moving on to work another area. It’s a good idea to follow some of the steps<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":269,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"New Blog from @kaivac: Professionally Cleaning #Floors with #COVID19 in Mind","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[215],"tags":[33195,33196,30743,30744,33314],"ppma_author":[48956],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"\n