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Computer and telephone Sanitising In today’s modern workplace, office technology and computers have become an essential part of office life so it is crucial that computer equipment is kept clean. Studies have been carried out by the university of Arizona where it has been foundthat the average computer keyboard contains 400 times more germs than the average toilet. A keyboard contains something like 3,295 microbes per square inch of bacteria, a computer Mouse 1,676 and an office telephone a staggering 25,127 microbes per square inch. These figures are even more astonishing when they are compared with a toilet, where you will find only 49 germs per square inch. Office equipment comes into regular contact with particles uch as nasal droppings, saliva and worms. Bugs such as E-coli, listeria and salmonella linger for up to 24 hours on fingertips and on keyboards. |
These days we spend more time at our desks working, eating and drinking but we still seem unaware of the perils of our dirty workstations. The survey revealed that the computer keyboard is the biggest offender in the office for harbouring germs and only 17% describe their keyboards as clean. So managers take note while 82% of us feel we would work harder in a cleaner office, an astonishing 71% of us think that bad desk hygiene can be the cause of us to take more sickies. Business and Industry need to understand that telephone and IT equipment cleaning is essential and as important as general cleaning.
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