COVID-19 Cleaning Case Studies in Harrogate

David Whan • 15 June 2020

We have helped many local businesses prepare to reopen after lockdown

Touch Point Cleaning in car showroom in Knaresborough North Yorkshire

COVID-19 cleaning services are now a critical feature of workplaces and business returning to as close to normal operations as they possibly can. It’s Clean have established strict controls and procedures to ensure you can welcome staff and clients back to a safe environment, and we can do the same for you. Every business is different, but we can adapt our operations to ensure the same standard of service and clinical cleanliness exists, through our Fogging and Touch Point Cleaning services and ATP monitoring.

ATP monitoring is a rapid testing method used to quickly assess the cleanliness of surfaces, helping organisations achieve optimal standardised cleaning levels. Through testing and cleaning, once a safe benchmark has been achieved, this test result can be used to show compliance in your company’s COVID-19 health and safety policy and gives peace of mind to your staff and clients. Ongoing testing ensures that these safe levels are met and allows your cleaners to target areas which pose a higher risk due to increased traffic. ATP testing is measured in RLU's and in a hospital environment an expected ‘pass’ measurement would be 50 RLU's or below. In a primary school this would be 250 RLU's or below.

Here we are showcasing three recent case studies from June 2020, where we have applied our comprehensive COVID-19 cleaning services to different premises in the Harrogate area, each from contrasting business sectors, but requiring the same standards of clinical cleanliness.

In each setting we carried out the following:

Pre-clean ATP test rating.
Touch Point cleaning by our staff in relevant PPE and removal of waste in clinical waste bags with disposal under licence.
Fogging using close application with water-based chemicals, which are active in killing bacteria and viruses including COVID-19 for up to 30 days.
Post-clean and Fogging ATP test.

Case study one: Redline Specialist Cars

It's Clean team at Redline Specialist Cars

This is one of the UK’s largest independent supercar, prestige and performance car specialists. The business was started by owner John Graeme in 1997, and has grown from a local small business exercising the owner’s passion to a nationally-renowned organisation with purpose-built offices and showroom.

Redline came to us as a fellow local Harrogate business, as they wanted to apply the highest standards to safeguard their office and car showroom. Thanks to It’s Clean, this was extensively cleaned and disinfected for the safety and well-being of all staff and customers. We were able to provide a complete COVID-19 disinfection and Touch Point Clean, to ensure they could open their showroom up, as they had recently received the go ahead to do so.

We carried out our testing and worked in conjunction with Redline owner, John Graeme, to ensure his site is ready to open to the public again. Redline had a pre-cleaning initial ATP test score of 2259 RLU, but post-cleaning, the premises are now spotlessly clean and disinfected. The post-clean re-test score was 48, which is on a par with a hospital ward.

Case Study two: Blue Line Taxis

This is another well-established Harrogate business, regarded as the largest taxi provider in the town. They have an office and headquarters which is highly-organised and prides itself on professional standards.

It’s Clean were able to carry out the same COVID-19 cleaning regime of pre-cleaning and ATP testing, Touch Point Cleaning and Fogging – including the safe removal of all equipment and materials – followed by a post-clean ATP test.

At Blue Line taxis the initial ATP test came in at 1068 RLU, but the post-clean re-test came in at 98 RLU. This is a ‘pass’ in terms of being clinically clean and safe to open up to employees and customers.

Case study three: 46 Cheltenham Mount

This is a newly refurbished office suite, set in a traditional four-storey, stone-built mid-terrace in Harrogate. The offices are available for rent, and hence there are a lot of different people using the property on a day-to-day basis. The business owner was keen to ensure high standards of clinical cleanliness to enable the office suite to be re-opened.

It’s Clean were happy to help, by applying the comprehensive COVID-19 cleaning regime we had implemented in other organisations. Fogging and Touch Point Cleaning was applied with the pre and post-clean testing showing the dramatic effect our COVID-19 cleaning service can have.

The initial pre-clean test showed a high RLU score of 4120, but the post-clean re-test scored at just 3 RLU. This shows that it is possible to achieve the very highest standards of sanitised cleanliness in almost any environment, and at It’s Clean we are particularly proud of the results we have been able to achieve.

COVID-19 cleaning has become a staple part of an organisation’s infrastructure planning and we are now able to apply this programme to any organisation across the commercial and industrial sector. So, get in touch today and we can work on a cleaning schedule that will beat the coronavirus and allow your business to demonstrate full compliance, and therefore operate on a safe and efficient basis.

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