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Keep Your Office Sanitary With Sneeze Guards

Protective Acrylic Sneeze Guard Barrier

According to the CDC, the coronavirus is mainly spread through person-to-person contact, especially when someone who’s been exposed to the virus coughs, sneezes, or talks. Although social distancing is the best way to reduce your chances of spreading or contracting an illness, sneeze guards are an important part of the process too.

Sneeze guards are commonly used in buffet-style cafeterias to keep food safe from germs. In an office setting, sneeze guards can be used in a similar way. During the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, it’s more important than ever to keep your employees from spreading germs to each other through their sneezes, saliva, and other particles that may carry viruses.

Modern Office sells countertop sneeze guards for desks that can shield employees from infectious particles in the air. These sneeze guards are thin, so they don’t take up much extra space, and they are see-through, so your team members won’t be completely isolated from each other. Different office environments can use sneeze guards to keep their locations sanitary in a few different ways.

Dividing Desks to Encourage Social Distancing

Adding a sneeze guard to the edge of a desk is an excellent way to help keep employees separated while working in an office setting. Similar to how wearing a facemask during the pandemic can help protect you and others around you from viral particles circulating through the air, separating your desk from others and using plastic shielding to cover individual workspaces can keep your employees safe by limiting the airborne transmission of germs.

Covering Snacks in the Break Room

Keeping food safe from germs is important for the health of anyone who may eat it. If you have snacks in a break room, even if they’re wrapped, you should keep them behind sneeze guards to prevent viral particles from landing on them. When your employees need a snack break, they won’t have to worry about who else has been standing over the nuts and fruit.

Protection for and From Customers in Retail Environments

Recently, large grocery store chains like Walmart and Kroger have added sneeze guards to cash registers to help limit exposure between customers and cashiers. If large-scale businesses like these major retailers are investing in sneeze guards, it likely makes sense to do the same for your own business. If you own a store, manage a bank, or run another kind of enterprise that involves a lot of face-to-face interaction with the general public, sneeze guards will help you run your business with less risk.

Easy to Clean

Sneeze guards wouldn’t do much good if the germs they’re protecting you from stayed on the material forever. Luckily, sneeze guards are very simple to clean. Many of them are made from acrylic, which is easy to wipe off with soap and water or diluted bleach disinfectants at the end of a workday. Frequent cleaning won’t negatively impact the material at all, so if your employees feel comfortable cleaning their nearest sneeze guards at several points throughout the day, they’re welcome to do so.

Hearing “gesundheit” isn’t cause for alarm when you outfit your office with sneeze guards. Order yours from Modern Office today.

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