After the shopping frenzy that is Black Friday- a well-known retail store in Suffolk County, NY, contacted Eastern Environmental Solutions looking for professional COVID-19 cleaning services. The retail chain had hundreds of customers visit throughout the week and wanted to maintain customers’ and employees’ safety by mitigating any potential risk of COVID-19 contamination. This is a common request we get from both commercial stores and residential clients. When trying to reduce the risk of COVID-19 in your retail store, commercial office, or simply your home – it is important to have a professionally trained and experienced company disinfect your properties if you feel there has been an outbreak. Here’s why:
Training
Eastern Environmental Solutions has a highly-trained and experienced COVID-19 Deep Cleaning and Decontamination Team. Besides COVID-19, Eastern Environmental has vast experience in hazardous airborne pathogen remediation and expert technicians trained and gained experience over decades. However, when COVID-19 became a pervasive issue in the New York region early in 2020, Eastern was committed to getting specific COVID-19 training for our technicians. Since the start of the pandemic, our entire COVID-19 response team has been required to complete a COVID-19 sanitizing training program. This training focused on maintaining staff and clients’ safety through proper PPE usage, hazmat suit preparation, full-face respirator applications, proper respirator cartridges, and more. The training also focused on how to sanitize properties with known COVID-19 infections effectively. This training equips our staff to safely and effectively mitigate airborne and surface-bound COVID-19 pathogens. In addition to Eastern Environmentals specific COVID-19 decontamination training, our COVID-19 response team regularly monitors the status of CDC, NYS DOH, EPA, and WHO guidelines to ensure adherence to the latest mitigation strategies.
Technology & Equipment
Eastern Environmental Solutions COVID-19 response team is equipped with electrostatic sprayers, ultra-low volume (ULV) fogging machines, full hazmat suits, and full-face Honeywell respirators. The CDC has recently determined that COVID-19 most easily spreads through respiratory droplets. This is important for both a COVID-19 decon team to understand and customers looking for COVID-19 sanitizing services. Respiratory droplets can stay in the air for many hours and spread far from their source – even through ventilation systems. To effectively mitigate a COVID-19 outbreak on your property, you will need to eliminate these respiratory droplets. For this, we use our state-of-the-art ultra-low volume (ULV) fogging machines. Our ULV fogging machines work to kill both airborne droplets and aerosolized COVID-19 virus particles. ULV fogging machines work to kill airborne COVID-19 virus particles by using large volumes of air at low pressure to transform liquids into droplets that are then dispersed through the atmosphere. We use EPA recommended Decon-30 in all of our ULV fogging machines. Decon-30 is non-toxic, keeping the environment safe for any occupants or animals. Our ULV fogging machines also only utilize cold-air technology keeping your property free of any burns or steam damage. Below is an example of how a ULV fogging unit kills airborne virus particles.
While the CDC has determined COVID-19 is less likely to spread through contaminated surfaces, this does not mean it is not a common mode of infection. It is still one of the most frequent ways COVID-19 spreads throughout a community. This is why electrostatic sprayers are an important tool for an effective COVID-19 decon team. Electrostatic sprayers work to kill COVID-19 viruses on surfaces. Electrostatic sprayers work by charging liquids (i.e., Decon-30 sanitizer) as they pass through a sprayer nozzle. This will generate charged droplets that repel one another, actively seeking out surfaces within the environment, which then stick to and even wrap around to coat all sides of the surface. This ensures all high-touch surfaces will be completely mitigated of all potential COVID-19 viruses. The result is a COVID-19 free environment and a healthy family or workplace.
Conclusion
After a professional and thorough COVID-19 decontamination on your property, you can expect a virus-free environment. While the Eastern Environmental Solutions, Inc. team provides a comprehensive disinfecting service, neither this service nor any service can address every avenue of potential infection. Although this service attempts to reduce the spread of the disease, Eastern Environmental Solutions, Inc. cannot guarantee that you or anyone on the premise will not become infected with COVID-19. However, our decontamination services provide a powerful tool to mitigate the risk of potential COVID-19 infections on your property when regularly cleaned. Our services can give you, your employees, and your family peace of mind knowing their properties have been professionally disinfected using the most effective and up-to-date decontamination methods for COVID-19. Our disinfection services, combined with other public health guidelines from the CDC, such as mask-wearing, social distancing, and adhering to quarantine guidelines, can greatly reduce the risk of COVID-19 spreading on your properties.
