Businesses and essential workers have gone the extra mile during the pandemic. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), essential workers are those who are essential to maintaining critical infrastructure and continuing essential services and functions.
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companies were designated as essential because they provide support services to commercial facilities, health centers, government buildings, and more. Essential service companies can continue to work in their workplace or in public contact, but they must do so in a way that limits or eliminates the risk of spreading COVID-19. Family medical clinics, GP offices, pathology, radiology, and audiology all require strict cleanliness standards to ensure safe and sterile environments.It is no surprise that these same essential service industries are expected to lead the nation's recovery. The commercial cleaning industry not only has the opportunity to help communities recover safely, but also to grow their businesses sustainably. Essential businesses that are unsure if they can operate in a way that minimizes the risk of transmission of COVID-19 are asked to close while implementing appropriate measures. This is largely due to the importance of continuing essential services, such as energy supply, fuel supply and waste disposal, as well as the continuation of critical infrastructure projects that include those in the supply and support chain.
The upcoming school holidays provide an opportunity for school management teams to evaluate their commercial cleaning services. The Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE) has clarified that lockdown is necessary to prevent the spread of COVID-19, and essential business exceptions must be applied from that perspective. The construction, infrastructure and mining industries are not trapped by non-essential service restrictions and can continue to operate. Essential service companies will continue to work, but will establish alternative ways of working to maintain employee safety.
As leaders in the commercial cleaning industry, Buildingstars not only has the opportunity to help communities recover economically, but also to do so safely. While essential companies were more likely to hire, increase salaries and increase hours over the past year, Buildingstars went further. A reliable commercial cleaning service can ease concerns about your facility cleaning program and defend against contagion. Both federal and state governments have begun to apply restrictions on what they call “non-essential services” (such services being identified in many different sectors).
Currently, the construction, infrastructure and mining industries are not trapped by non-essential service restrictions and can continue to operate.
