Optimizing critical fitness facility cleaning protocols will help ensure that post-COVID membership numbers continue to grow during the crucial first quarter and beyond.
Cleaning is Critical to Fitness Facility Success
Cleanliness is an essential element in any fitness facility--ensuring the safety and health of members and staff.
Researchers have identified nine areas of a facility's daily operations critical to maintaining healthy and productive schools and businesses.
The 9 Foundations of a Healthy Building
A team of researchers from Harvard University, working in conjunction with experts across relevant fields, including real estate, facilities management, and academia, have identified nine fundamental characteristics of a healthy building:
Ventilation.
U.S. health officials are concerned that a convergence of increased direct social interaction and decreased handwashing levels will result in a surge of norovirus infections on par with the 2022 season.
What COVID Did to Norovirus Infections
The U.S. public response to COVID significantly impacted norovirus transmission during the 2020-21 cold and flu season.
During the long cold months of the winter, insects and other pests that typically live outdoors will seek shelter, warmth, food, and water inside homes, schools, and businesses, leaving a trail of costly damage and disease in their wake.
Why Do Outdoor Pests Come Inside During the Winter?
When the temperatures are warmer, most insects and other pests tend to remain outdoors, where food, shelter, and water are plentiful.
Children in childcare facilities are exposed to an increased risk of infection, particularly during cold and flu season.
Infections in Childcare Facilities
Children, especially the very young, are at increased risk of infection year-round regardless of whether or not they attend a childcare center due to their immature immune systems.
Until recently, the correlation between cold weather and an increase in seasonal cold infections was poorly understood--but new information suggests that it all starts with our nose.
The Impact of Cold Weather on the Spread of Illness
One of the most common modes of infectious disease transmission between humans is contact--directly with an infected host or indirectly with a contaminated surface or object.
Stay safe this holiday season and avoid catching and passing the cold and flu by following these simple yet effective hygiene tips.
Avoiding a COVID Christmas
It's a record year for the wrong reason--already the worst flu season in a decade, combined with record RSV infections and hospitalizations and climbing COVID cases and deaths.
Routine cleaning and targeted sanitization services stop the spread of germs in schools and offices.
The Impact of Cleaning on Schools and Businesses
Dirty classrooms negatively impact school and student performance, commonly resulting in several challenges:
Student and instructor attendance issues.
Facility hygiene directly impacts occupant health to such a degree that it is in the interest of public health to ensure schools and businesses achieve and maintain a high standard of cleanliness and safety.
Building Hygiene and Public Health
The environmental quality of public schools and office buildings directly affects public health.
Clean buildings are critical to the health and performance of both workers and businesses.
Clean Indoor Workspaces are Essential for Business Success
The amount of time U.S. adults spend indoors--typically at home, at work, or traveling between the two locations--has been thoroughly documented in recent years.