Mats for Commercial Use
Winter is approaching, and with it comes all of the environmental hazards, whether you like it or not. Wind, rain, snow, sleet, and ice are all part of the water cycle. All of these factors can contribute to slip-and-fall accidents and other unfavorable outcomes in your facility. While you have no control over the weather, you do have control over how well your work responds to the cold.
It all comes down to using the right commercial mat.
1. Avoid Slip-and-Fall Accidents
In the winter, entrance mats, scraper mats, waterhog mats and complete walkways are all excellent options for exterior protection. Commercial mats are made to keep people from slipping and falling. Your employees can safely enter the workplace because they trap water, scrape debris off the bottoms of shoes, and provide firm surfaces to walk on (and business owners can avoid costly litigations).
2. Keep your flooring in good shape.
In the winter, it’s not just your employees who need extra protection. Your office floors are no exception. Water can seep down into the crevices in flooring like wood and laminate when employees track it in on the bottoms of their shoes. The standing water can damage the floor and necessitate a costly repair. Not only that, but by placing a commercial mat inside the door, you can protect your beautiful flooring from scuffs and scratches.
3. Cut Costs of Overhead
It’s common for cleaning and facility maintenance costs to rise during the winter. The janitorial crew will have to step up their cleaning game due to the slush and mud tracked into the workplace. Your janitorial crew will save time and effort in their winter cleanings with the help of a commercial floor mat, lowering labor costs.
4. They Assist In Making A Good First Impression
An entrance mat’s trapping function keeps your workplace cleaner in addition to making it safer. Your facility will appear more effortlessly with less water and dirt tracked in. Cleanliness sends a message and creates a positive impression about your company. Visitors to your office will feel at ease as they settle in for a crucial meeting. Patients who enter your hospital will have the assurance that they will be well cared for. (And, as we previously stated, your cleaning crew will appreciate it!)
5. it’s also simple to clean!
You might be thinking that there’s a catch: cleaning a mat that collects so much filth must be difficult in and of itself. Not in the least! These mats are machine washable. You get clean convenience when you rent your mats from a professional, such as Health Mats. We’ll pick up your dirty mat regularly and replace it with a clean one. Your facility and its commercial mat will always put its best foot forward in this manner.
Keeping Your Matting Investment Clean and Maintain
Mats to Clean:
- Mats should be vacuumed and cleaned using the carpet extraction method regularly to keep them effective in capturing soils. Consider utilizing a canister or backpack vacuum, which provides direct suction. Upright vacuums are also helpful, although the brush in upright vacuums may stir up particles, damage IAQ, or pull at lighter-weight carpets.
- Winter soils, such as ice melt, rock salt, and sand, must be carefully vacuumed off matting to avoid contaminating the mats or surrounding flooring.
- Use little or no soap to clean the mats. To remove ugly white powdery streaks throughout the winter, apply an ice melt residue remover.
- High-traffic areas’ mats may become soaked with moisture and soil, which occupants track into the building. Under exceptionally bad weather conditions, replace mats as needed throughout the day or utilize high-velocity air movers.
- Wait until the mats are completely dry before placing them on the floor.