Caught Red Handed

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Caught Red Handed
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Computer Cleaning Week

• Most of the UK population use a computer
  every day but most of us are ill informed about
  the potential dangers that nasty germs breeding
  on our desks can cause.

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How Clean is your Computer?

• What was the original colour of your keyboard?
• Has a colleague sneezed or coughed on your
  telephone?
• Do you eat lunch at your desk?
• Place a piece of white paper underneath your
  keyboard and turn upside down. Take a look at
  what comes out - yuck!

Hidden germs are lurking on your desk!!
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Meet the Germs

• Salmonella - bacteria that causes severe and
  prolonged diarrhoea, vomiting and fever.
• E-Coli - bacteria that causes severe abdominal
  cramps, diarrhoea and vomiting.
• MRSA Superbug - very dangerous bacteria that
  causes skin infections, blood poisoning, heart
  valve infections, urinary tract infections and
  pneumonia.

All of these bacteria have been found on computer
workstations
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Germ Hotspots

• Source University of Arizona

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Deskgusting Facts!

• Germs transmitted from a sneeze or cough can
  travel up to 3 feet and can infect for up to 3
  days!
• 90 of us eat at our desks filling our
  keyboards with food and bacteria!
• On average, the area where you rest your hand on
  the desk has 10,000,000 bacteria
• Source University of Arizona

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Cost to your Business
60 of illnesses start in the workplace

• Sickness and absenteeism costs UK businesses over
  60 billion a year - this is more than 1000 per
  employee when taking into consideration loss of
  productivity, overtime and recruitment
• Source Dame Carol Black, the National Director
  of Health and Work at the NHS Hewlett
  Associates

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Hot Desking

• 80 of workers share their workstation, including
  computer and telephone, with at least one other
  colleague.
• Workers who hot desk are far more likely to
  become ill due to a colleagues poor hygiene and
  the easier spread of infectious bacteria.
• 82 of us feel we would work harder in a cleaner
  office.
• 71 of us think bad desk hygiene can cause us to
  take more sickies

Managers Take Note!
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How to Clean your Workstation

• Always use professional computer cleaning
  products which are specially formulated to clean
  each piece of equipment.
• Dont use any computer cleaning products on your
  equipment whilst the power is switched on. Make
  sure the power is switched off so that it is safe
  to clean.
• Visit www.computercleaningweek.com
• for more advice on the correct procedure
  to make your equipment as good a new

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DURABLE Computer Cleaning Products

• Comprehensive range to clean all areas of your
  workstation including the latest technology.
• Products are alcohol free, non toxic and non
  hazardous.
• Products are environmentally friendly - bottles
  and tubs are 100 recyclable and cleaning wipes
  are 100 biodegradable.
• Superclean and Telephone Clean products contain
  Bact-o-Clean bactericide which kills 99 of
  germs and viruses including the common cold, flu
  virus, E-Coli, Salmonella, MRSA, Listeria and
  H5N1 Bird Flu

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Can you afford not to clean?
It will take each person just 2 minutes a day to
rid their equipment of germs.
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Thank you!

• Dont let the germs have the last laugh