How To Be Safe At Your Office Desk

How often would you shake hands with someone that has been to the toilet but did not wash their hands because they thought they looked clean

. I guess the answer is not much but, how often would you eat at your desk in some cases thats everyday for some office workers.

An office desk contains over 20,000 microbes per square inch and they are stored in places such as the telephone, computer keyboards and accessories such as the mouse.

The majority of germs can be spread by the telephone and particularly if you share your desk. If one of your colleagues you work with comes into the office with cold or flu symptoms and touch equipment at work, this transfers the virus, which can survive on these surfaces for up to 72 hours and therefore becomes an incubator and breeding ground for the germs, all ready for you to catch.

The harmless keyboard you use on a daily basis is a harbor for germs and acts as a tray that catches unwanted bits of food, and enough skin to fill a small cup, and the hair we shed on a daily basis.

According to new research by the University of Arizona womens desks harbour more germs than mens and if not kept clean can play a significant part in spreading micro-organisms from flu, cold, e-coli and the super bug MRSA and not forgetting swine flu.

Swine Flu, as we are all aware has had a significant impact on peoples health causing mild panic and worry. This outbreak has cost businesses and the economy greatly already snd thiss is before the second wave hits us.

While it is getting ready to make a comeback over wintertime now is the time to ensure that you are doing all you can to introduce plans for personal and office hygiene in a bid to prevent this from becoming a sickness overload and also for the wellbeing of your workforce, colleagues and families .

Did you know, Escherichia coli, probably better known as e-coli lives naturally in your intestine but is not always confined to the intestine it can survive outside the body and can even be found on your phone and is easily transferable which can have a potentially lethal impact on health.

There is a solution at hand. Specialists companies provide the majority of markets with Do It Yourself cleaning kits which will enable you to provide an ideal solution to minimize the transfer of micro-organisms and germs. Hence keeping your desk free of germs and keeping you safe.

Infection control kits have previously been used to help clean computer work stations but have moved on to clean products such as plasma TVs, toys and other household goods. These specialist cleaning kits can be used in the Healthcare sector as well as many other professions and environments.

Do It Yourself cleaning kits will help leave the environment a cleaner and more hygienic place and will help to bring germs, micro-organisms and flu type bugs under control which will in turn help reduce spreading viruses and will work towards reducing the threat of pandemics and illnesses.

If you work in an office let your manager read this and ask Human Resource department for approved NHS sanitation cleaning kits. Failing that buy your own.

by: Suzy Powell

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