How to Keep Commercial Properties Safe This Winter

2. Snow Removal Services for Businesses: Consider a Seasonal Contract

A seasonal snow removal contract offers you great peace of mind. It means Level Green crews will service your site whenever there’s a legitimate risk of snow or ice. You don’t have to worry or decide whether you want your property treated.

You’ll absolutely receive constant communication on what’s happening and the plan, but you don’t have to be involved in making decisions. It’s taken care of, which offers you tremendous peace of mind about your property’s safety.

When you have a seasonal snow contract with Level Green, we take on the liability, giving you extra peace of mind.

Bonus: A seasonal snow and ice management contract means you pay a set amount for snow and ice services for the season — no matter how much snow falls or how many visits crews make to your property.

Snow and ice crews show up dependably to keep your property safe and you have double peace of mind — your property is clear of dangerous snow and ice, and you know exactly how much you’re going to pay for it. No guessing. No worries. It’s among the best winter weather safety tips for businesses.

3. Partner with a Company that Thrives on Proactive Communication

You don’t have time to watch out the window and worry about your snow removal crews showing up. You have plenty of other pressing things on your mind.

Is your property being cleared of dangerous snow and ice? When will crews show up? How do you know things are safe out there? How many nails do you have to bite off while you worry?

Hopefully, no nails. Your snow removal company should keep you in the know about your winter landscaping safety.

At Level Green, you’ll hear from us several times with updates before the storm even hits. No wondering.

We keep a close and constant eye on weather forecasts and the ground temperature, keeping our crews alerted and updating our plan for your property as needed.

We partner with a professional weather forecasting company to receive expert updates on expected storm trends and forecasts. This helps us ensure we’re providing you with the best data available to make decisions. Then, we fill you in on the plan.

You’ll stay informed throughout the storm, including timely phone calls from your account manager and photos from our crews who document their progress on your property.

We can even install specialized cameras on commercial properties that give us live winter views for snow management strategy, even showing us the temperature of the pavement to help guide our treatment plan.

You’re out of town? No worries. Our account managers are on site, checking crews’ progress, making sure everything is clear and safe. Then, we‘re in touch with you about the details.

Are you sensing a theme here?

Partner with snow removal services in DC, Virginia and Maryland that offer a detailed, proactive communication plan to keep you informed about winter safety on your commercial property.

4. Ask About Your Snow Removal Company’s Commitment to Safety

Your commercial property is only as safe as the professionals out there clearing the snow and ice.

Are they skilled and experienced professionals?

The Level Green team puts safety first, offering extensive snow and ice management safety training on multiple levels.

Crews get a full day of snow removal training each year, rotating through training stations to learn about plow safety, walkway clearing, and other winter skills. How to keep sidewalks safe in winter? They practice the best methods, well before winter blows in.

Managers and crew members each have snow-specific training, on issues from liability to safe equipment operation to mixing brine.

Drivers are trained in safety protocol provided by the Snow and Ice Management Association.

Level Green subcontractors are included, too, meeting with us to train and prepare for the season.

All this training means snow removal crews operate safely and efficiently, ensuring winter safety on your commercial property.

5. How to Prevent Slips and Falls in Winter: Attacking Ice

Slick, treacherous invisible ice is a huge winter worry. Slips. Falls. Traffic accidents. Property damage. How does your snow management company prevent and remove ice?

At Level Green, we have strategic plans to prevent ice before it forms and melt it when it starts to accumulate.

Our crews use an engineered ice melt mixture that’s less corrosive than straight rock salt and friendlier to the environment.

When pre-applied, it prevents ice and snow from bonding to the surface area. Because it’s a time-released formula, the ice melt stays on the surface longer, helping to reduce the freeze and thaw cycle.

Brine is another crucial tool to keep snow from sticking and ice from forming.

Brine is a liquid mixture of water and salt that’s sprayed on roads, parking lots and walkways, usually before a snow or ice storm.

As soon as we put it down, it starts to work, helping to ensure winter safety on commercial properties.

How to prevent slips and falls in winter? Ice patrol should continue even once the sun comes out. Leftover puddles often refreeze. We keep you posted about our plan to treat that new ice to keep people from slipping. Most slip and falls actually occur days after the event, when customers, visitors and clients have let their guard down and assume the risk is over.

Less ice, better winter safety on your commercial property.

6. Clear Those Drains

It doesn’t take many wayward leaves to clog a drain. When your drain is clogged by leaves and debris, your parking lot can flood, creating not just inconvenience, but a real safety hazard.

That standing water can freeze, causing dangerous ice issues. Our crews can clean up any debris that has collected, keeping your drains clear. It’s an important part of winter maintenance for commercial buildings.

When we take care of your property year round, we also know where the water may puddle up and stand on your property, so we know those areas will freeze and need extra ice melt. At Level Green, commercial property ice prevention starts way before the temperature dips.

7. Proactively Prune Hazardous Tree Branches

Winter safety issues aren’t just underfoot.

When weak or damaged tree branches are loaded with heavy snow or ice, they can crash to the ground. That’s a big winter landscaping safety worry for commercial properties.

It’s important to prune and thin tree branches before winter, so remaining branches are sturdy enough to hold up to winter stress. It’s among the best winter weather safety tips for businesses — but one that often slips through the cracks. Not on our watch.

If you have trees that pose a risk factor, we let you know throughout the year, so we can stay on top of overhead safety concerns.

It’s a great example of how proactive attention provides winter safety on commercial properties.

Trust Your Winter Landscaping Safety to Level Green

You need your sleep. Snow and ice management in DC, Maryland, and Virginia shouldn’t be nightmarish.

Put your winter landscaping safety in our hands.

Level Green Landscaping provides customized snow removal and ice management services for commercial properties in Washington D.C., Maryland and Northern Virginia.

We provide these additional services to our clients which we already service throughout the year.

We love maintaining your commercial property’s landscaping during the spring, summer and fall. It just makes sense to trust your property to us during the winter months, too.

Our goal: protect everybody who spends time on your commercial property, and minimize your risk of liability due to slips, falls, traffic accidents, and property damage.

If you’re not already a Level Green Landscaping client, we’d love to add you to our growing list of happy customers.

Our focus is on commercial properties like offices, mixed-use sites, HOAs, municipalities and institutions in Maryland, Washington DC and parts of Virginia.

We’d love to hear from you.