Car Wash Detailing and Employee Outdoor Work Areas

TricoShade designs and manufactures Velarium brand shade solutions for car washes across America.

The hot sun can be brutal on employees exposed to long hours outside. Give them cool shade to protect them and improve employee moral and productivity.

Benefits of shade for car detailing areas:

  • •  Shaded and cool environment results in more productivity from car
  •    wash employees
  • •  Reduces the sunburn effects on employees working in detailing areas
  • •  Lets customers know that you care for your employees
  • •  Attention-getters, especially with logos or signage
Carports for car wash waiting areas  
Shade cloth cover for car wash detail area (click to enlarge)
Sunbrella canopy over vacuum area  

Surveys have shown that an employee provided with a comfortable shaded environment is more productive than one toiling in the hot sun all day.

Give employees at your car wash business a shaded area to work in and you will have happier employees and possibly prevent them from contracting skin cancer from too much sun exposure.

Our shade structures, awnings, canopies and shade sails are the most cost-effective, durable and attractive solutions for your business.

 

Helpful Information for Starting or Upgrading a New Carwash Business

Shade for Car Wash Employees

Working at a car wash can be life threatening when heat stress symptoms are ignored or left untreated by staff or supervisors. In the United States as many as 10 million workers are affected by heat stress and approximately 500 die from heat related illnesses annually. Heat related illnesses are 100 percent preventable when proper precautions are made to control working environments.

It is well-known there is a definite link between employee productivity and environmental comfort. Ensuring that car wash employees have the best possible working conditions helps reduce your liabilities as well as employee turn over.

In the car wash industry, where employees spend most of their workday outside, utilizing Velarium shade structures and canopies will ensure employees are productive and healthy in the extreme heat and sun, by blocking up to 98 percent of UV Rays and reducing the temperatures under the shade structure by 20 percent.

Commonly employee comfort can be measured by such factors as temperature, humidity, air circulation, lighting, acoustics, and physical space. Studies show improving these factors in your business can be the most cost-effective expenditures for increasing productivity among employees.

Even touching hot surfaces can be a dangerous to a car wash employee as they can cause burns and blisters that could keep them from doing their jobs. Velarium shade canopies, awnings, shade sails and custom shade structures will block the heat and keep surfaces cool to the touch.

Employees should always have access to fluids regardless of the temperatures; adequate fluids will help prevent dehydration, heat exhaustion, and heat stroke. All of these health risks lead to a decrease in productivity, an increase in absenteeism and increased employer liability.

Shade structure for carwash detail area (click to enlarge)

 

 

If you are planning to upgrade your car wash set up or system, ask your employees in the planning process for input about where shade structures would be of the most benefit at your carwash. You may discover very useful information that be used to improve your car wash set up.

Open spaces covered with vividly colorful polyethylene shade sails will not only attract potential customers, they will improve the mood of your employees. Happy employees help create happy customers.

Velarium shade structures, awnings, canopies, carports and shade sails are the most cost-effective, durable and attractive shade solution for your car wash business.

 

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