Blog: Cleaning and Disinfecting Your Fixed Seating Products

This comprehensive guide helps you determine what products are safe for use on your fixed seating and how to use them to effectively clean seating for your guests.

Watch this 2 minute video for a demonstration and guidelines on cleaning fixed seating products.

Join leaders in seating manufacturing for a discussion (recorded webinar) on how to clean and disinfect seating quickly and thoroughly without causing damage or breaking the bank. Featuring panelists: Jason Vandergroun (Irwin Seating), Joe Kilby (Association for Contract Textiles), Dave Wells (Culp Contract Fabrics), and David Adair (Absecon Mills).

As venues carefully reopen, all are looking for ways to reduce virus transmission inside to keep guests and staff safe. Over the past year, experts have learned a great deal about how COVID-19 is transmitted indoors and the best ways to help reduce the risks.

We’ve compiled some standard guidelines for you, as a venue manager, to reference as restrictions around the country continue to change.

Take these important steps to protect, maintain, and repair your seating while your venue is closed.

Review this guide for implementing health and safety guidelines for both remote and on-site workers.

See how cinema operators are approaching their reopening processes and what they expect in the coming months.

Read how performing arts center operates view the upcoming challenges of reopening and when they expect to open again.

View the collection of resources from the IAVM and register for upcoming meetings as well as watch previous recorded meetings. Browse many online learning opportunities and learn about applying for the Global Biorisk Advisory Council (GBAC) Accreditation Program on Cleaning, Disinfection, and Infectious Disease Prevention for Facilities.

The CinemaSafe program, commissioned by the National Association of Theatre Owners, is dedicated to helping cinemas and movie theaters implement safety protocols for reopening. Learn more about their COVID-19 guidelines and how to be a CinemaSafe venue.

See the comprehensive list of all cleaners approved to prevent the spread of COVID-19, along with the surfaces they are intended for.

See the official safety and cleaning guidelines from the CDC as well as information about Mitigation Strategies for Communities.

This whitepaper from ACT provides information and guidance on cleaning different kinds of materials as well as a helpful glossary of terms regarding cleaning and disinfecting textiles.