Is Your Office A Clean And Healthy Place To Be?
When you take a lunch break where would you choose to eat? Is your preference to eat at your office desk or eat your meal sat on the toilet?
I guess most of you would choose to eat at your office desk, wouldn’t you? From a bacterial cleanliness point of view it would be safer to eat on the toilet seat. Yes, I did actually just write that! Arizona University researchers collected swabs from around one hundred offices right across the US and on analysis found there was over 400 times as much bacteria on the office desk as on the average toilet seat. Does your Aberdeen office cleaner clean the office desk properly?
However, I have news for you that computer keyboard that is sitting in front of you right now had on average around 3,300 microbes per square inch. Your mouse is a little cleaner with only around 1700 But the telephone - that thing that keeps ringing whenever you are trying to do your work - has 25,000 microbes per square inch.
The Alba Office Cleaning company regularly visits offices across Aberdeen to speak to staff who use a different contract cleaning company and occasionally finds a place where cleaning priorities are not fully worked out.
I remember hearing from a typist who was complaining that the office cleaners had left the waste paper bin on a chair and how inconvenient that had been for her having to put it on the floor beside the desk. The cleaner had probably lifted the office bin to empty it and ensure the area was vacuumed (believe me I have seen office cleaners who would have vacuumed around it rather than move it for cleaning).
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. 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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