Here are some facts about Office Cleaning that highlight the importance of ensuring your cleaners Bristol or anywhere in the country, are doing a thorough job…
- 25% of water cooler buttons pose a serious risk of illness transmission.
- 50% of office telephones pose a serious risk of illness transmission.
- 75% of taps in office lavatories pose a serious risk of illness transmission.
- A computer keyboard acts like a tray and collects food, skin, hair and dried nasal evacuations.
- Enough skin falls off a human to fill a tea cup every single day.
- Office telephones have, on average, 25,000 germs per square inch, including E-coli.
- Office desks can be up to 400 times dirtier than a lavatory seat, harbouring up to 10 million microbes
- Bacteria increases by a third every day on surfaces that are not properly disinfected.
- 98% of staff will take sick leave due to an illness they contracted due to unclean office surroundings.
- Three quarters of dust particles in an office are made up of dead skin cells.
The average employee takes 10 days off sick each year, and the majority of those days off are because of an illness they contracted at work. For each worker, this amounts to thousands of pounds of costs to the company and much of it can be avoided. As a first step, ensure you have employed the best cleaners Bristol has to offer, so that your office is as thoroughly cleaned as possible.
The next thing to do is to follow some simple steps to ensure you protect staff from illness. Do not get them to come back to work until they are 100% better. Many staff come back early and do more harm than good as they spread their germs to the rest of the staff and even more people are then off work. If more people coughed and sneezed into hankies or tissues, the germs would not get spread. Just remember, if this was Japan, you would be walking round wearing a surgical mask until you were totally germ free.
Do not encourage staff to eat food at their desk. By having a designated area for eating less food gets into phones and computers and there is less food for the microbes to gorge on.
Don’t scrimp on your cleaners Bristol hours as there will still be a lot of dead skin that needs hoovering up every day. If the cleaner doesn’t do it then there will be a big feast for the germs and a third more germs the next day…and the next day….and the next…