ISS keeping the UK safe with over 1,000 COVID-19 related deep cleans

The projects support tens of thousands of people in the nationwide campaign to keep organisations safe for their people and their communities.  

Since the pandemic started in March 2020, 75% of the deep cleans have been in response to COVID-19 outbreaks. The Restoration team received deep clean requests from customers every day. The second wave of the pandemic saw over 55 requests for COVID-related deep cleans.

Deep cleans have been completed across a range of businesses – from financial services to manufacturing – to ensure workplaces are clean and hygienic for their end-users. The requests have varied from organisations looking to increase their hygiene standards to ensure their workplace is clean and safe for their employees to continue working, through to entire spaces decontaminated due to positive cases of COVID-19 being identified within a particular workspace.

Cleaning Excellence – from banking to manufacturing

Over half of the responses have been in the financial sector and high street banking, enforcing the sectors commitment to safety, underpin the economy and keeping environments safe for customers and staff. 

The largest deep clean to date was 10,000 square feet of office space, which was occupied with over 1,000 desks. Each desk was cleaned and sanitised to enable staff could return to a safe working environment. One of the outstanding projects was a comprehensive deep clean for bank headquarters where three floors of the building were deep clean, along with all of the metal touchpoints within their car park area. The ISS teams clinically decontaminated all areas including the banking and trading rooms with their bespoke equipment and sensitive material, all the time ensuring confidentiality and a thorough methodical and clinical approach.  Much of the work was undertaken through the night and at the weekend to ensure minimal disruption to the business, staff and customers.

Manufacturing clients received equally dedicated and knowledgeable support. High speed production lines could only shut down at specific times. Both speed and precision are essential in an environment with robotic machinery, multiple moving parts and highly sensitive electronic controls. 

Safe techniques to create safe workspaces

ISS Restoration uses state-of-the-art cleaning and hygiene solutions – such as the ISS PURE SPACE approach – to provide effective and rapid cleaning and disinfection. This allows all areas to achieve effective and clinical deep cleaning to protect employees, end-users and the environment.

The specialised cleaning approaches are designed to attack the usual sources of cross-infection – ranging from touch by end users on handrails through to airborne particles in closed rooms. A combination of electrostatic spray equipment, environmentally friendly water-based products and   super-fine fogging equipment allows hard to reach areas to achieve effective and clinical deep cleaning to protect employees and end-users. Prior to the commencement of any works, comprehensive risk assessments, method statements and safety data sheets (COSHH) are undertaken and completed.

Steve Mitchell, ISS Restoration Managing Director commented: "We’re proud to support so many people and demonstrate our wider expertise. ISS Restoration continues to support the UK with infection control and clinical deep cleaning for hospitals including the NHS Nightingale Hospital in London, care homes and hospital surgeries. The deep cleans that we provide are also essential for critical infrastructure including call centres and data rooms, together with office spaces, retail and financial institutions.” 
Mitchell concluded “I’m really proud of our expert technicians and support staff, all of whom work both tirelessly and selflessly to help to keep organisations moving during this pandemic.”