Keeping your school clean to prevent the spread of COVID-19 is essential, so it’s only natural that you’ll want to know what should be on your school deep clean checklist. Keep your school students and staff safe by using our handy school cleaning checklist guide. Here, we’ll show you what areas need to be regularly cleaned, as well as your daily cleaning activities.
Classrooms
While not every classroom may be used daily, it’s still imperative that your classrooms are cleaned regularly. Deep cleaning should be undertaken daily in classrooms that are being used each day. This will ensure that surfaces that are being touched often are effectively sanitised, preventing the spread of COVID and other germs.
Classroom cleaning checklist:
- Disinfect all desk surfaces, chairs, door handles and floors
- Steam clean carpets to kill germs
- Empty rubbish bins and take rubbish to the designated location in the school
- Bleach bins
- Wipe down windows, doors and skirting boards
- Wipe down any glass partitions
- Sanitise plug sockets and any stationery or apparatus that has been used
- Spot clean walls
Corridors
As these are high traffic areas, daily cleaning tasks on your school deep clean checklist are essential. Even in non-COVID times, corridors are likely to be visibly dirty and house the most germs. Ensure you have hand sanitiser available in these areas for student and staff use.
Daily cleaning checklist for schools:
- Disinfect floors, door handles and light switches
- Sanitise windows, ledges and walls
- Empty any rubbish bins and bleach bins
Toilets
Toilets are likely to have been on your school building cleaning checklist pre-COVID and have high standards of cleanliness. As germs thrive in shared toilets, it goes without saying that cleaning services should maintain daily cleaning of them, as well as regular inspections throughout the day
Toilet cleaning checklist:
- Bleach toilets, urinals, sinks and taps
- Sanitise all door handles and cubicle doors
- Sanitise soap dispensers
- Wipe down walls and windows
- Disinfect floors
- Empty and bleach bins and refill the liners
- Sanitise hand dryers if used
Reception area
Any outside visitors will arrive through your reception area so ensure it’s stocked with hand sanitiser. You may also wish to keep extra disposable masks handy.
School cleaning checklist for reception:
- Disinfect tables
- Sanitise computer equipment, chairs and shared stationery
- Sanitise door handles and light switches
- Empty bins and bleach them
- Wipe down windows, ledges, doors and skirting boards
- Disinfect hard flooring
- Steam vacuum carpets and welcome mats
Staff room
As your staff are likely to be highly prepped on cleaning advice, your staff room may not require as much deep cleaning as other areas. However, you should keep hand sanitiser on standby, as well as sanitising wipes for counters, kettles, microwaves, and any other regularly used kitchen equipment.
Daily cleaning checklist:
- Disinfect door handles, light switches, tables, kitchen counters, sinks
- Sanitise kettles, fridges, toasters, coffee machines etc
- Wipe downs windows, ledges, cupboards, chairs
- Bins should be emptied and bleached
- Cups and cutlery should be washed in hot soapy water
- Hard flooring should be disinfected
- Carpets should be steam vacuumed
- TVs, monitors need to be wiped down
Offices and Library
Staff offices and your school library are likely to be similar in storing IT equipment, desks, seating etc. Your library may already have a quarantine policy for books. Any shared areas for students like tables and seating will follow similar protocols to classroom cleaning.
Cleaning checklist for offices/library:
- Disinfect desk surfaces, seating, door handles, doors, light switches
- Sanitise shared stationery
- Sanitise IT equipment
- Disinfect hard flooring and steam vacuum carpets
- Wipe down windows, ledges and skirting boards
- Empty and bleach rubbish bins
Entrances
Additional entrance areas where students and staff are incoming or exiting should have hand sanitiser for use.
School cleaning checklist for entrances:
- Disinfect doors and handles
- Disinfect hard flooring
- Steam vacuum carpets and mats
Dining facilities
Dining facilities should be cleaned after every use. Your catering staff may be prepared for cleaning duties. However, keep hand sanitiser and extra disposable face masks handy in these areas.
Cleaning checklist for dining areas:
- Disinfect all tables and chairs
- Disinfect handles, doors and light switches
- Wipe down skirting boards
- Spot clean walls
- Disinfect flooring
- Empty and bleach rubbish bins
Sports facilities and halls
While your school may be putting sports contests and large assemblies on hold for a while, your sports facilities and halls may be being used in some capacity. That means deep cleaning should be undertaken regularly, including daily cleaning tasks.
Daily cleaning checklist for sports facilities and halls:
- Sanitise door handles and doors
- Wipe down windows and ledges
- Sanitise sports equipment if used
- Disinfect flooring
- Sanitise any seating
If you have changing rooms, these need to also be cleaned regularly and deep cleaned after being used. This normally requires:
- Sanitising of door handles and doors
- Sanitising hooks and seating
- Sanitising lockers
- Bleaching any shower areas
- Bleaching of toilets and sinks
- Disinfecting flooring
Start establishing your school cleaning checklist today
Now you’re aware of what your school deep clean checklist should contain, you can ensure that your school cleaning services know exactly which areas require daily or regular attention.
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