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How to Protect Yourself and Others From The Pandemic

  • Posted by kleenteem.com
  • Categories Blog
  • Date April 9, 2020
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Here at KleenTeem, we are all taking the pandemic very seriously, and we know you are, too! It’s important to keep informed so that we can all make good decisions to protect ourselves and others from the spread of the pandemic.

To start, think about what you do when you’re sick and trying to prevent others from catching it. What do you do differently? Do you wash your hands more, eat and sleep in another room, stay home while sick? It sounds funny to say it, but acting as if you are already sick is the best way to prevent yourself and others from getting sick. Ahead, important steps we should all be taking to stay healthy and safe during this pandemic.

 

Wash your hands thoroughly and often, for at least 20 seconds each time! Our hands are the #1 culprit for spreading around and transmitting germs, so it’s incredibly important to wash them properly and often.

How: Wet your hands with water, lather up thoroughly with soap. Be sure to scrub not just your palms but the backs of your hands, between your fingers, under the fingernails, your wrists – then rinse with clean water. Need a 20 second timer? Hum the ‘Happy Birthday’ song to yourself twice!

 

Keep a safe distance. Social distancing and self quarantine are the buzzwords of this era, and for good reason. It is absolutely essential to practice safe social distancing and to self quarantine, avoiding crowds, staying at least 6 feet apart from others in public, and abiding by stay-at-home orders.

Why is this so important? The goal of social distancing isn’t to stop the spread of this highly contagious virus. The main goal and purpose of social distancing is to flatten the curve of infection rates to manageable numbers, in order to preserve our healthcare systems. Our nation’s hospitals and health care workers are already being stretched dangerously thin, and it is a very real and scary fact that overloading our health care systems at this critical time will result in its collapse. If this happens, millions of people will die in the United States alone in a very short span of time, not just from the pandemic but from any number of other health conditions, simply because healthcare access and treatments will not be available. Social distancing and staying at home will literally save lives, and we all need to do our part!

Practice responsible sneeze & cough etiquette! Cover your mouth when you cough and sneeze into your elbow or a tissue, then dispose of the tissue – don’t spit in public, and don’t cover up with your hands!

Why? The pandemic spreads chiefly through wet droplets that travel from an infected person expelling them when they sneeze, cough or spit, then is transmitted to a healthy person via their mucous membranes — the eyes, nose and mouth. Hands are not only ineffective at covering up those water droplets, touching things after coughing or sneezing into hands can cause the virus to spread to others by surface contact.

Don’t touch your face! Fun Fact: The average person touches their face 16 times an hour. We already know that the virus spreads easily via our eyes, nose and mouth, so avoid touching your face completely – and of course, wash your hands thoroughly and often!

Take care of your body: Stay hydrated, get plenty of sleep, exercise, and eat right. Not only is water great for oral health, it’s essential for the optimal function of literally every single part of our bodies – our brains, muscles, organs, even our bones and teeth. Proper sleep, exercise, and diet are all also essential for keeping our stress levels down and our immune systems healthy and robust.

Disinfect surfaces and items you and/or others are in frequent contact with, such as faucet and door handles (especially bathroom handles), toilet seats, your cell phone, keys, keyboard and mouse, car steering wheel, etc. We know it’s tough to find disinfectant products on store shelves nowadays, but the good news is that scrubbing with soap and water is just as effective at killing the viruses!

We are living in unusual and trying times, but the good news is that we know what steps to take to help keep ourselves and others safe. At KleenTeem, we are taking all necessary steps to ensure your health and safety, as well as that of our staff. With everyone playing their part, we know we will make it through this together!

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Stefani Restaurant Group

With expansion of indoor dining on the horizon, KleenTeem’s unique process gives both our staff and our patrons the confidence to return to restaurants heading into the holiday season. My confidence in KleenTeem’s service comes from working closely with the Stavrakas family for over 30 years.

 

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Pitchfork Music Festival
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I’m writing to express our company’s satisfaction with Kleen Teem, with whom we have worked on numerous outdoor special events in the city of Chicago since 2006. As the organizer of one of the City’s largest summer festivals, Pitchfork Music Festival in Union Park, we’ve found KleenTeem’s management and workers to be fantastic. Since this event venue is located in a neighborhood park, surrounded by commercial and residential neighbors, ensuring a proper cleanup is essential to the success and continuity of our event. With KleenTeem, we’re assured that event-day and post-event custodial services are executed properly. Their hard -working and conscientious staff has endured through inclement and extreme weather, dense crowds, and a huge and varied site topography (e.g. pavement, grass, etc.), consistently producing great results every year. They arrive with all needed supplies, ready to work, and never leave until the job is absolutely complete, whether that means picking up cigarette butts in the field, or disposing of sheets of plywood from around the site. They’ve also met all of our standards and directions for recycling, an extremely important part of our event, which has allowed us to reach levels exceeding 50%, beginning with 2011’s event.

In 2006, when we started this event, there were few companies specializing in outdoor event services. For Kleen Teem, this is was a new market segment at the time. It makes me very happy to see that as our event has grown, so has KleenTeem’s capabilities, to the point where I see their crews out at the majority of outdoor special events that I attend. They remain one of our favorite and most dependable contractors for our events, and the tireless work of their crews continues to impress us year after year.

 

AECOM Tishman
Formerly Tishman Construction Corporation of Illinois

Once again, KleenTeem did an EXCELLENT job in getting our schools cleaned in time for commencement of the Fall semester. We understand that often you are asked by our project managers to perform with very little advance notice and under difficult conditions. Yet, you were able to come through again with flying colors. Everyone on your team was very professional, responsive and worked under the specific deadlines and conditions we had for each site. As you know, every school in which you worked had concurrent work with numerous other trades and contractors. We never heard of, nor witnessed, any issues with your team interacting with all of the other activities, and cannot say enough how much easier that makes our jobs. Thanks again. We look forward to working with you again.

 

Michael Lerner
MCZ Development
Principal

Working with KleenTeem over the years has provided our project management and construction teams peace of mind with respect to delivery and turnover of our commercial and residential developments, in multiple markets across the United States. Utilizing a vendor with diverse skillsets and services has been a value-added benefit for us on multiple fronts, during development and construction, as well as upon stabilization, in collaboration with our property management teams.

 

Coastal Construction Group of South Florida, Inc.

Here at Coastal Construction, we were privileged to receive a commendation as one of the top 50 new construction and renovation projects in Florida. A large part of our success on the timely delivery of our projects stems from our partnership with KleenTeem. They provided the highest quality service, were creative in assisting us in meeting a very demanding schedule, and worked diligently with our management to ensure the smoothest transition from construction to finished product.

 

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National Hockey League
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With the 2019 Bridgestone NHL Winter Classic taking place at Notre Dame Stadium, the NHL hosted NHL Winter Classic Park at downtown Chicago’s Jay Pritzker Pavilion. As the official fan festival of the Winter Classic, fans of all ages were able to experience hockey themed interactives, live music, F&B, etc. With over 25,000 fans partaking in the 3-day fan festival, we needed a company that could handle the volume of trash that would be accumulated from load in through the end of the event. From the initial meeting with the KleenTeem, George was very professional, accommodating and just a down to earth guy. He assured us that with their experienced staff, the venue would stay clear of trash (beer cans, boxes, cups, wrappers, etc.) and all trash/recycling containers would stay replenished. His staff worked each day in the rain, snow and freezing temperatures to assure NHL Winter Classic Park stayed tidy.

We received many compliments on the cleanliness of the park and when everything was loaded out, the venue was turned back to how we received it. I would highly recommend the KleenTeem for any festival cleaning services, and will certainly utilize George and his team for any events the National Hockey League has in the future.

 

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