While it's important to keep your medical facility clean and hygienic at any time, the COVID-19 pandemic may make this job harder for you. You can get some help during this period from a facilities management software system. How can it help keep things safe?
Automate Tasks
During the pandemic, your regular housekeeping and cleaning tasks might increase, and you'll need to sanitize more stringently. You might have to clean areas multiple times a day that you previously only cleaned daily; you'll have to sanitize consulting rooms and waiting areas more often, sometimes after every patient. To keep things safe for your staff and patients, you need an effective housekeeping and sanitization schedule. You have to ensure that a member of your team is in the right place at the right time to do essential cleaning tasks.
This scheduling can be a laborious manual job. If you set it up on a facilities management system, then you automate the process and make it quicker. You, and your teams, will know what they need to do throughout the day.
Manage Staffing
If you've had to boost your cleaning regime, then you might have needed to hire new workers. Your housekeeping staff might be a lot bigger now. You might have also needed to allocate work to all your employees, making sure that they have a clear schedule during their working days. However, you'll also have to manage staff absence. For example, if some of your people catch COVID-19, then they'll be away from work until they recover. You'll need to keep a record of how many employees you have available and how many can't come in. You might need to arrange cover if you lose a few of your workers to sickness.
Facilities management software systems make this process easier. You can track your workers and manage any absences. If you know how long someone is likely to be away from work, then you can bring in temp cleaners to fill any gaps.
Maintain Supply Levels
You're likely to need to increase and supplement your regular cleaning supply orders. You'll need specialist products, such as sanitizers and PPE. Many supply chains aren't working as efficiently as normal right now, so you need to keep ahead of the game and order well in advance if you can. However, you can use facilities management software to log all the products you use and to monitor stocks and orders. Some systems even trigger automated orders when you run low or get close to a regular order date.
To learn more about how to streamline your in-house cleaning, contact a medical facilities management software provider.