Is your facility properly disinfected? Every gym owner, manager, and trainer should ask themselves this question. They must assess their disinfecting practices to safeguard the health of their clients in light of the COVID-19 virus’s emergence and the existence of other dangerous microorganisms (bacteria, viruses, fungi). We are all aware that going to the gym helps people improve their health. However, the pandemic makes people question if they should risk it to go to the gym or not. That’s why they are one of the businesses that need thorough cleaning this 2023.
To not further decrease the number of gym goers, gym owners, and managers have taken precautionary measures to fight COVID-19 and ensure the safety of their members. From limiting the number of gym goers to increasing the frequency of their building cleaning schedule. However, cleaning alone does not necessarily mean bacteria and viruses are killed. It just means that your surfaces are free of clutter but not from dangerous microorganisms. Aside from knowing how to properly clean your gym facility, you should also consider proper disinfection. In this article, we would take a deeper dive into gym disinfection and what type of disinfectants you’d want to stock up on.
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In order to make your gym stand out as the greatest option for members, you as the gym manager have spent a significant percentage of your money on furnishings, equipment, and other facilities. It costs money to outfit your gym with the best, most cutting-edge, in-demand equipment. However, you don’t mind because purchasing that equipment is essential to the success of your gym. But do you take good care of your investments?
Cleaning and disinfecting your facility would mostly revolve around your gym equipment since they are often used by your members and are highly likely to spread illnesses if not properly disinfected. Aside from safety reasons, keeping them properly maintained makes them last longer and function properly. Below is a list of the best disinfectants for gym equipment
you can use and where to use them.
One of the most popular compounds used as a disinfectant in cleaners is alcohol. It is typically applied in the form of isopropyl alcohol or ethyl alcohol, which, depending on the dose, kills various bacteria and germs. However, alcohol poses a huge problem if you use it on your vinyl benches, rubber grips, steel weights, and treadmill screen monitors. Cleaning with alcohol can hasten the rusting of metal goods like hand weights, leave surfaces unsightly cracked where bacteria can lurk, and destroy the protective screen coatings on touch screens, making them less sensitive and occasionally unclear.
Although hydrogen peroxide has a reputation for being a less harmful disinfectant than alcohol or bleach, it can nevertheless cause significant harm to your gym equipment. Aluminum, copper, iron, steel, tungsten, and other base metals or base metal alloys are notorious for being oxidized by hydrogen peroxide. This implies that using hydrogen peroxide to clean any surface on your equipment made from these metals, including stationary bicycles, rowing machines, and pilates reformers, could cause serious harm. So you might want to avoid using it to disinfect your metal gym equipment.
Since the dawn of time, bleach has gained a reputation as the preferred disinfectant. Although bleach is often associated with “gold-standard clean,” it can really be disastrous for gyms. Products containing bleach can fade and discolor surfaces and equipment in gyms. When you clean them with bleach, your investments in the nicest mats, seats and even counters or desks can be rapidly undone. Bleach frequently stains surfaces, producing a yellow tint on white or light-colored surfaces, which is another unfavorable side effect of using bleach to clean your gym equipment. Additionally, bleach can erode the structural integrity of machines and surfaces, resulting in rusting or cracking, and it can dissolve protective layers on your gym equipment. In contrast to bleach, there are numerous other far safer chemicals you can use to effectively clean or kill microorganisms on equipment.
Ammonia’s distinctive smell might immediately come to mind just by reading the word. Ammonia is a cleaning agent that may be found in everything from floor polish to toilet cleaner and is used to clean a range of surfaces. Ammonia, however, is mostly used to clean surfaces that can become streaky because of how quickly it evaporates. Although ammonia is frequently used in liquid form for cleaning, doing so comes with numerous dangers. It can aggravate the respiratory system, cause breathing problems, and exacerbate allergy or asthma symptoms. If ammonia comes into contact with any area of the body directly, it can also result in severe skin burns.
Now that you’ve read that the most common disinfectants you’ve been using so far are actually harmful to your gym equipment, we’re sure you’re trying to find the one that would protect both your gym goers’ health and your investments. Fortunately, there is one in the market that does both, quat-based disinfectants.
You’re probably also familiar with a number of natural disinfectants in addition to bleach and alcohol. Many people are unaware of quat-based disinfectants, despite the fact that they are EPA licensed and safer than the majority of cleaning supplies. Due to their non-toxic and non-hazardous composition, quat-based disinfectants have become a formidable rival in the cleaning business. More consumers are looking for bleach substitutes, according to studies. As a result, disinfectant-based cleaning products based on quat are popular.
Due to their broad-spectrum efficacy, non-toxic formulation, simplicity of storage and mixing, low dwell durations, and convenience of use, they might be the best disinfectant for your gym equipment!
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