Tidyness is next to cleanliness
February 1st 2010 Office cleaning staff are often
prohibited from moving
business paperwork on desks,
resulting in large desk areas not
being cleaned.
Workstations
then harbour
bacteria, as they are
missed from the
regular cleaning
cycle.
Wendy Peck,
service support
manager at Virgin
Money, was
concerned that
untidy desks and
dirty hardware
would become a
Health and Safety issue,with
staff sickness caused by
bacteria in areas that had not
been cleaned in a long time.
Peck contacted IT cleaning
company Keep I.T.Clean,
whose specialism is the control
of bacteria on computers,
telephones and desk areas
down to trace level. Arranging a
site visit for the deep cleaning
of office workstations served as
a catalyst to encourage all
employees to tidy
their own work area
to ensure the cost
of an external IT
cleaning company
was not wasted.
Using
bioluminescence
technology, Keep I.T.
Clean was able to
measure and prove
that bacteria was
effectively removed
from any given
workstation. In
addition, the visit was a
noticeable event and granted
Peck the opportunity to create
a new Tidy Desk policy,
successfully enforced through
frequent subsequent visits from
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