Is Your Office A Clean And Healthy Place To Be?
It is time for your meal break where would you normally choose to eat? Is your preference to eat at your office desk or eat your meal sat on the toilet?
I suspect that almost all of you would decide to choose your office desk. Research has shown that it could be safer to eat off your average toilet seat than your office desk. Researchers working with Arizona University collected samples from 100 different office buildings across United States to confirm previous findings showing there was around 425 times as much bacteria on the office desk tan on the toilet seat. Surprised? Is your Aberdeen office cleaner cleaning the most important of your office building? Find out here.
Right now you probably have a keyboard sitting in front of you. On average that keyboard will likely to have over 3,000 microbes in every square inch. Move that mouse sitting it and you will be potentially contacting over 1700 microbes per square inch. Don’t panic but pick up the telephone to find a office cleaning company and you will be speaking into an office accessory with 25,000 microbes per square inch.
Alba Office Cleaning company is regularly in touch in office managers throughout Aberdeen city and visits places which are cleaned by other cleaning companies is now no longer amazed at the lack of knowledge of office staff about the need for regular thorough cleaning.
On one of those visits an office manager was telling me how she regularly has to complain to the office cleaners about the odd paper clip that has been left for days on the floor. Why she did not pick it up herself the first day I still don’t know.
I asked her which was the most important job for the cleaner in the office around the desks. To be told to make sure that the bins were emptied and the floor was cleaned every day but office staff would clear their own desk so papers were not disturbed. I asked her to move a few papers back and spread out some clean paper in front of her. I then lifted the keyboard and tipped it upside over the clean paper and gave it a few gentle smacks to loosen the dirt and crumbs that were lying inside it. We then spoke about cleaning standards and setting priorities in the cleaning schedule before drawing up a new cleaning contract ensuring that the welfare and safety of staff using computers and telephones was also given full attention.
I simply ask that when drawing up office cleaning schedules we give more attention to the welfare of office staff to get maximum performance from them.
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