COVID - 19 Cleaning
To assist in maintaining the impact of viral diseases, including COVID – 19, IFS provides infection control, viral – deep cleaning and sanitising services for all commercial sites.
IFS has a wealth of hands on experience when it comes to infection control. We understand the importance of cleaning every touch point – bedrooms, office spaces, screens, handles, buttons, switches to ensure any possible outbreaks are controlled and avoided. We have worked in hospital environments where using the correct sanitisers, soaps and chemicals is critical to avoid the spread of illness and disease throughout the area. We have also worked in environments where there have been contagious outbreaks of diseases from other countries (e.g. whopping cough, small pox, measels etc.) that we had to control inside the facility.
We have gained extensive experience through servicing contracts of this nature, as well as by the cleaning and maintenance of common areas and public spaces. Our staff also have exposure to the handling of sharps or syringes in open spaces of work sites hence are experienced in how to handle sharp removals in line with prescribed procedures.
Ensuring that staff are properly sanitised on every entry and exit to work sites.
We work amongst patronage with minimal disruption and have a clear understanding of Workplace Health and Safety procedures and the responsibilities to the general public. Our cleaning staff have gained formal training in Forensic Cleaning through the Lennox Institute (Nationally Registered Training Organsation) and are well versed in all potential Biological, Physical and Chemical hazards and how they can be avoided. On account of the nature of the work we often perform on contracts such as Australian Federal Police and the high volume of occurrences where our staff are required to handle bodily fluids, IFS has gained significant hands-on experience in circumstances where we have had opportunity to carry out big volumes of specialised forensic cleaning such as 250 forensic clean completions on average nationally in a month.
IFS has effectively maintained places where there has been an occupancy of over 6000 personnel in which all touch-points were all required to be sanitized and cleaned to avoid any potential outbreaks and maintain this level of sanitization at all times, even during working hours with minimum disruption to workers, visitors, tenants and other personnel.
We recognise the critical nature of time management where infection control management for areas where we have had 100s sometimes 1000s of people including residents, staff, visitors, clients and elderly people using facilities such as gymnasiums, common areas and food dining areas, which we have had to sanitise in between meal times to ensure there was still sufficient seating for people to dine whilst still also maintaining if not exceeding the level of sanitisation required to control outbreaks.
We have learnt the critical nature of working collaboratively with all stake holders, as well as the importance of working in segregated areas, especially when we were servicing detention centres. We had to ensure certain areas were completely isolated from the rest of the areas so that there was no risk of cross contamination and/or further infection in the other areas. Segregation was also used to ensure certain areas could be completely sanitised and cleaned to the required standard before people could access again.
We ensure staff protection with PPE & awareness of the importance of infection control
This was even more critical in specific sections in a facility where there was a higher potential and risk of an outbreak. We ensured that all staff working in such environments had the proper PPE and were well aware of the required timeframe required for complete sanitisation before clearances were given for people to be allowed access to those specific areas.
With our public housing works for instance, when residents were faced with risk of outbreak or when residents passed away, we had to carry out required works amidst significant challenges. Staff had to ensure that the residences were properly cleaned and sanitised before allowing anyone back inside. All our staff are well versed to the requirements to dispose of any consumables that were used during such cleans including mop heads and PPE. All such items had to be bagged and placed in bio-hazardous labelled bins or disposable areas.
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