Surviving Cold & Flu Season: Your Essential Guide to Keeping Offices and Schools Healthy
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As temperatures drop and we spend more of our time indoors, cold and flu season arrives like clockwork. The sniffles, coughs, and fevers that come with it can turn thriving workplaces and bustling classrooms into ghost towns. But here’s the good news: getting sick doesn’t have to be an inevitability. With the right products and proactive hygiene practices, you can significantly reduce the spread of illness-inducing germs and keep everyone healthier throughout the season.
Why Schools and Offices Are Ground Zero for Germs
Schools and offices represent the perfect hotspots for germ transmission. Young students are essentially germ factories, making educational facilities potential health hazards for both students and staff. When an illness spreads through a classroom, it doesn’t just affect one child. It can spread through the classroom and beyond, and can even spread to families and communities, impacting learning for everyone.
Office environments face similar challenges. Shared spaces like breakrooms, conference rooms, and bathrooms become breeding grounds for bacteria and viruses. When employees gather around the coffee maker, use communal microwaves, or touch the same door handles dozens of times daily, germs spread rapidly. The cost of workplace illness extends beyond individual discomfort—it damages productivity, lowers morale, and ultimately affects the bottom line.
Stock Up on These Essential Germ-Fighting Products
Prevention starts with preparation. Having the right supplies readily available makes good hygiene practices convenient and sustainable:
Hand Sanitizer
Place bottles of hand sanitizer at entrances, exits, and high-traffic areas. Alcohol-based sanitizers with at least 60% alcohol content effectively kill germs when soap and water aren’t immediately available.
Hand Soap
Stock restrooms and kitchen areas with quality antibacterial soap. Regular handwashing remains the gold standard for removing germs.
Paper Towels
These single-use products are more sanitary than shared cloth towels, especially in bathrooms and kitchen areas.
Disinfectant Wipes
These are perfect for quick cleanups of desks, keyboards, phones, door handles, and other frequently touched surfaces. Regular disinfection breaks the chain of transmission.
Tissues
Strategic placement of tissue boxes encourages people to cover coughs and sneezes properly, preventing airborne germs from spreading.
Beating the Seasonal Sniffles with Guernsey
Cold and flu season may be unavoidable, but widespread illness isn’t. The investment in prevention is minimal compared to the cost of widespread absences and decreased performance.
Guernsey carries all the necessary products you need to make health and hygiene a priority. Stock up today! Your organization will thank you!
