How To Get Your Water Cooler Back To Work After Lockdown
If the water cooler has been shut down during lockdown and is not on a sanitising contract
- The water cooler should be regularly sanitised to avoid bacterial contamination. Go back to your original water cooler supplier to ask for a sanitising call out
- Alternatively you can self-sanitise, using our Cooler Clear Rinse (CCRINSE) and Cooler Clear Spray (CCSPRAY). Please see our guidelines on sanitising: Click To Read Why We Need To Sanitise PDF
In any case, we recommend the following minimal steps
- POU Cooler: Flush approx. 2.5ltr of water through each tap to remove the stale water from the tank. Follow this by spraying the taps and dispensing area with a commercially available food safe sanitising spray, such as our (CCSPRAY)
- Bottle Coolers: Remove the old bottle and replace with a new one. Flush approx. 2.5ltr of water through each tap to remove the stale water in the tank. Follow this by spraying the taps and dispensing area with a commercially available food safe sanitising spray, such as our (CCSPRAY)
Sanitising destroys bacteria, but does not touch the COVID19 virus. Fortunately our CCSPRAY does destroy the COVID19 virus!
What about COVID19?
There is no evidence that COVID19 is water borne. We do however know that the COVID19 virus can survive for several days on surfaces, such as keyboards, mouse/mousemat, desks, door handles, photocopiers, printers etc etc and can also survive on Water Cooler surfaces (one reason for regular hand sanitising). Using CCSPRAY sanitising spray would be an additional safeguard, together with everything else you are doing, to protect against COVID19.