Office Germs and Your Health - TIPS
Research shows offices are full of germs!
Your Desk has more germs than a toilet seat!
How bad is it? (This is germs per SQUARE INCH)
- Over 25,000 germs an inch on a phone
- Over 3,000 keyboard germs per square inch
- 1,600 germs on your mouse
Shared surfaces are responsible for 80% of the spread of a Cold or Flu!
Shared surfaces are those items that are handled by more than one person in the office.
A germ uses shared surfaces as a hub of distribution.
For example:
- John is running late for work because his child has the flu.
- He pours a cup of coffee, heats a muffin in the microwave and puts his lunch in the fridge.
- 12 other employees get a cup of coffee
- 8 people get cream from the refrigerator
- At lunch time 5 others heat lunch in the microwave
Everyone in the office touches these surfaces!
it doesn't take long for germs to spread around the office!
What can you do to Fight office germs?
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