Dirt may be found in cracks and crevices, but sometimes it hides in plain sight too. In most office settings, employees share spaces, such as break rooms, conference rooms, restrooms, desks, and other areas. Unfortunately, while sharing these spaces, individuals often share bacteria, viruses, and various other microbes as well. These can lead to allergies, illness, and ultimately, absences. Here are four of the dirtiest areas in an office and how best to keep them clean.
Restrooms
Bathrooms will always be one of the dirtiest areas in any office. Malevolent particles are often found covering door handles, mirrors, the surfaces of paper towel dispensers, buttons on hand dryers, and the locking apparatus and flushing devices in bathroom stalls. The best way to keep restrooms clean is to wash and disinfect them five times throughout the average workday, with particular emphasis on handles.
Break Rooms
Virtually everyone in an office uses the break room at one time or another. It’s not surprising that they are host to a vast array of germs and bacteria. This is unfortunate, since break rooms are where most employees usually prepare and consume food. Therefore, it’s critical to keep this room clean. The best way to accomplish this is to use a disinfectant almost as frequently as you would for your office restroom and create guidelines for employees to carefully clean up after themselves after their break, with the goal of leaving the break room as it was found.
Vending Machine Buttons
A vending machine may at first appear clean, but on any given day, it usually hosts a broad range of harmful germs and bacteria. This presents a problem simply because of the sheer number of people who touch these buttons on a daily basis. To reduce the proliferation of germs on vending machine buttons, these surfaces should be disinfected every few hours with a strong formula.
Desk Surfaces
Because most individuals touch multiple areas of their desks each day, every germ or bacteria they picked up from other areas of the building could conceivably end up on the surface of their desk. This is why desks make the list of the top four dirtiest areas in your office. The longer the person works at their desk, the more this concentration of germs will be inhaled and spread from the person’s hands to his or her eyes, nose and mouth. Break this unhealthy cycle by having each person use a high-quality disinfectant solution on a daily basis, as often as is deemed necessary.
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