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Office Hygiene Facts
Office Hygiene Facts
- An office desk is capable of supporting 10 million microbes and the average office contains 20,961 microbes per square inch
- The key offenders are telephones, which harbour up to 25,127 microbes per square inch, keyboards 3,295 and computer mice 1,676
- When someone is infected with a cold or flu bug the surfaces they touch during the day become germ transfer points because some cold and flu viruses can survive on surfaces for up to 72 hours
- The average number of days off sick for an employee in the UK is 9.8 days a year
- Many germs can be spread by the telephone
- PROtech’s unique fluid solutions will kill the MRSA bacteria
- A keyboard is a tray and catches nasal droppings, food, skin and hair
- Enough skin falls of a human to fill one tea cup a day
- 31% of men and 17% of women confessed to not washing hands after going to the toilet
- One in five said they did not bother because their hands looked clean
- E-Coli naturally lives in your intestines but you can find it on your phone.
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