Is Your Office A Clean And Healthy Place To Be?
Where would you rather have lunch? At your office desk or sitting on the toilet?
The office desk is what most of you are probably thinking right now. But read on! From a bacterial cleanliness point of view it would be safer to eat on the toilet seat. Yes, I did actually just write that! Scientists from Arizona University took samples from 100 offices across the USA and found there were 400 times as much bacteria on your average desk as on the average toilet seat. Does your average Aberdeen office cleaner clean the important part of your office?
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. Scroll down using your computer mouse to read the rest of this article and you will around 1750 microbes per square inch. But the telephone – that thing that keeps ringing whenever you are trying to do your work – has 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.
On asking what the cleaners had been instructed to do about cleaning the office desk I was often told not to disturb any papers so staff had everything to hand. With her permission I spread a few clean sheets of paper from her printer on the desk. Tipped her own keyboard upside down and tapped it a few times to remove the crumbs, bits of skin and dirt from between the keys. 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.
Yes, visitors to your office expect to see a clean office environment and their first impressions do count but office managers should also be thinking about the health and safety or even welfare of their own staff as well.