Different coloured equipment in certain areas within a facility can greatly decrease the risks of cross contamination!
Cleaning at facilities such as food-service, healthcare, aged care, offices and accommodation; anywhere health and safety is important.
A cleaning system is so easy to learn, regardless of the level of diversity across staff within your facility, colour is universal and easy to learn and identify. Plus it is not an incremental expense! Your staff will already be using wipes across the areas of your facility, introducing a colour coded cleaning program will simply change behaviour to use different coloured wipes when in different zones.
The health and safety of your staff and customers is vitally important, as is the reputation of your facility. It’s considered best practice and viewed highly favorably as it adds an additional layer of protection against cross contamination. It essentially becomes a part of your facilities standard operating procedures.
Keep it simple though, try to have a different colour only when cross-contamination is a concern. Too many colours is going to be confusing.
Provide a cheat sheet that explains colours and zones so use signage to keep your new colour coded cleaning system front of mind with your team is to have it posted in high traffic areas.
The colour coding of cleaning equipment is simple yet so effective! The identification of cleaning equipment for use in different areas will reduce the risk of cross contamination and infection in your environments.
How about using blue for general hygiene areas. And try Red for sanitising areas and Yellow for infectious control. Green for commercial kitchens and brown for cafes.
