Sanitize Stores

[teachnlearn]

I've seen signs posted on Walmart and grocery stores stating they have limited hours of shopping so the rest of the time they can restock and 'sanitize' the store. I worked a.s a school janitor and it was tough enough sweeping, mopping and getting the trash out to 'sanitize' anything.

Can anyone tip me off. How does a store with thousands of feet of floor, shelves even attempt to sanitize in a night? My wife gets migraines from chemicals and I steam clean with a professional unit. Even with a small place, it takes time. Only thing I'm familiar with is using a fogger with Quat and fogging the entire place and I don't think they have a fogger unit big enough to do that. RJF

[new2woodwrk]

I imagine they are going to try to incorporate the same standards schools are supposed to be using:

https://www.cdc.gov/flu/school/cleaning.htm

 

[teachnlearn]

The amount of hard surfaces in stores and schools is a high sq footage. In the year I cleaned for the district of multiple schools, I didn't have a single bottle of sanitizer or soap in my hands. It was a state college town. Just sweeping and mopping was too much to cover all the classrooms. Took more manpower and money, which is why I wondered about stores. Ever seen the one walmart employee cart by the wash rooms? Think they could sanatize the rest of the store? RJF

[dgman]

Well Rick, do what you do best and research it!

 

[teachnlearn]

Hospitals, Research Labs and Pharmaceutical Mgrs. are designed to be sanitized, have equipment and chemicals to sanitize and are restrict the number of people to trained staff that follow protocols.

There is  problem with a call to sanitize large areas that are staffed with people that will contaminate the store or school, then open to a mass a people that contaminate and transfer the contamination around the store. Take one employee of Super  Walmart that has Covid 19 and stocks the store all night. Between shelves, cans, washroom, eating area they have touched 'hundreds?' of surfaces. The store opens and how many people retouch those surfaces and transfer it to how many more surfaces?

How many people would it take to wipe down shelves, carts, check outs with a germicidal? How many spray cans or gallons would be needed per night to make sure surfaces are decontaminated? How long will they stay disinfected, until a person with Covid 19 touches surfaces, carts and recontaminates it during the day? There are hospital areas that use UV to kill on surfaces, and materials in the surfaces to help kill virus and bacteria. Something not in 'regular' buildings. Just regular cleaning of a building is done with a minimal crew to remove dirt/ garbage and make the store look clean overnight, not sanitized.

The problem is a mathematical natural grown equation. One person, effects one, two people effects 2 which totals 4, 4 x4,    16 x 16,    256 x 256,     65,556 x 65,556 = 4,296,278,016 people and it goes up from there. Part of the reason to isolate as many people as possible. The same thing happens with the growth of bacteria and germs.

We all isolate in our homes, then people that don't know they have caught it then go out for toilet paper, food and spread it across common areas or directly contaminate people. This isn't the black plaque, but its still a large problem. My wife and I were trained in science, but have no employment with the government, so we are along for the ride also. I really wonder if someone is working in a store has received training that over comes these problems. RJF

 

Edited March 20, 2020 by teachnlearn

[amazingkevin]

I doesn,t look good no matter what! Everything has to stand still for 2 weeks or it will just keep replicating.isolation.