“5 reasons why workplace hygiene is important for your business”

Madhurima Nirmal
Aug 31, 2018 · 3 min read

Hygiene is considered a measure of people’s way of life. A person with good hygiene is always been admired by people everywhere including their work place. When it comes to the workplace, cleanliness and personal hygiene are the utmost important tools where we work or live. After all, no boss would want their employees looking unkempt, right?

Poor workplace hygiene can leads to n number of issues like a high staff turnover, sickness and even accidents such as slips. If your staff don’t believe you, that you are taking full care of them at the workplace and that hygiene is an issue, then it’s like they won’t be happy and won’t be able to give their 100% output. If this goes on for too long, you could see your staff turnover increasing which is something no business wants to see.

That is why you need to make sure that your premises are regularly cleaned and maintained to check whether the employees are happy, healthy and productive too which somehow indirectly leaves a good impact on business partners or potential customers.

Listed below are a few points that’ll indicate the importance of the same.

1. Employee empowerment is the key to Company Growth- Employees spend more than 9–10 hours of their routine at their work place and which somehow is called as their second home and for that reason our work place should be clean and tidy. The more we are hygiene concerned the more will they be happy and productive. Workplace should be comfortable enough to do the job properly.

2. First Impressions count- A clean and tidy place is always loved and appreciated, be it is your sweet home or your second home i.e. your work place. It looks appealing to your potential clients or your business partners as it will establish confidence and create trust from the very beginning. Dirty floors or pathetic washrooms might give your impression that you are not taking care of professionalism to take care of your employees. Your workplace’s hygiene and cleanliness directly reflects your company’s core values.

3. Air Quality- It is also one of the factors that influence the work place quality or health of the employees. The best way to improve the air quality in the premises is to invest in plants which will filter out excess of carbon dioxide and pollutants from the air to provide the workers with clean air and oxygen. Ventilation system helps in reducing airborne transmission of respiratory infections and maintaining the health and productivity of workers.

4. Rank your Business- We all being the consumer for each other believes in quality of the product or services we supply or take. And actually it doesn’t matter what type of business are we into, a potential customer will mostly be judging your brand or your working environment product on the office space looks and feels. So we should never let a messy environment result in a potential customer just walking away before you even have the chance to speak to them. Because you never know how useful our client could be for our business.

5. Reduce Slips, Trips and Falls-

‘Occupational hygiene is a multi-skilled discipline’, don’t you agree! Maintaining clean, dry floors is essential for the prevention of slips and falls in the workplace. To prevent injuries, we need to make sure that all the floors are dry or cleaned on a regular basis or putting floor mats wherever the possibility of slips and trips is.