Post-Lockdown: Equipment cleaning extras

What are your equipment cleaning procedures? Do they go further into detail than ‘wipe down equipment’? Having and implementing a written method statement for ‘how’ to clean keeps your processes consistent, uniform and ensures an efficient system. Communicating this is, as always, is key. Creating posters, leaving a written procedure on a whiteboard, creating a […]

Post-Lockdown: Alternatives to attending in person

1. Have you thought about how to keep engagement with members who can’t make the gym from time to time? 2. Can you consider a daily or even weekly online engagement process to keep people accountable for their fitness? 3. How can you increase the vital message of fitness, exercise and nutrition for health to […]

Post-Lockdown: Communications

Have you thought about how you will communicate new procedures and member expectations regarding re-opening? Can you utilise a members’ group – such as Facebook? Can you send out a special email? Can you put notices up at gym once reopened? Can you add a pop up/ check box to your booking system asking members […]

Post-Lockdown: Dealing with communal objects

1. Do you have automatic taps, automatic soap dispensers, single use paper towels and contactless, covered bins? 2. Can you remove the need to touch items such as doorhandles with bare hands? (Be careful not to break Fire Regulations by propping open internal Fire Doors!) 3. If you don’t already have it, can you implement […]

Post-Lockdown: Safe Access & Egress

Access and egress to buildings & toilets – (this is just the H&S terminology for how to enter and leave a building safely). Have you thought about how members will enter and leave whilst minimising social contact? Have you considered extra cleaning requirements between sessions and how to manage the time required? Have you considered […]