COVER STORY
THE IMPORTANCEOF CLEANING
Is your office as clean as it looks? Perhaps not, says Total Clean, as it explains why choosing a suitable contract cleaning company can boost productivity as well as prevent employees from catching contagious illnesses.
How clean is your office? To understand how important cleaning is, it is essential to understand that although your office may look clean, it could be harbouring potentially deadly germs and viruses.
Here are just a few facts that give a clearer picture:
• The average workplace desk can be 400 times dirtier than the average toilet seat.
• There are 16m microbes found on the typical office keyboard.
• Only 3% of offices sufficiently clean their equipment. • The typical office worker’s hands come into contact with 10m bacteria per day.
• One in four people have faecal bacteria on their hands. • One person carrying a virus will infect 50% of all equipment and employees in their vicinity in just four hours.
So, is your office really as clean as it looks? Perhaps not.
Slips and trips One area which needs special attention with cleaning is the floor. Did you know that slips and trips are the most common cause of major injuries at work and they occur in almost all workplaces; 95% of major slips result in broken bones. A significant cause of slips and trips is the lack of safe cleaning processes. A lot of floor surfaces are left hazardous every day which causes accidents. To help with this it is important to safely remove the contaminations that cause the accidents.
Total Clean pays close attention to each clean, and as we are specialists in floor cleaning we can give your flooring the attention it needs.
In a typical year, slips and trips account for 33% of all reported major injuries, 20% of over-three-day injuries to employees and 50% of all reported accidents to members of the public. This is a strong indication of how important it is to take slips and trips seriously like hiring Total Clean, you can reduce the risk of incidents due to slips and trips.
The law While it might be easy to overlook, it is actually a legal requirement to provide employees with a safe working environment. The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has outlined guidance on having a safe place to work. Some of the essential tasks you must ensure are done in your workplace are: provide clean premises, furniture and fittings; remove dirt, refuse and trade waste regularly; clean toilets and hand basins; and, provide good ventilation as well as a sufficient workspace.
These all come under the Workplace (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1992. The aim of this is to reduce incidents of work-related death, injury and ill health. To take the worries out of meeting all of these regulations why not use Total Clean, with offices around the UK, to help with your cleaning needs.
Covid-19 and Monkeypox While the media attention is less apparent with regard to both Covid-19 and Monkeypox they still exist. With nearly 30,000 people testing positive in England and nearly 1000 people dying from the illness every week at the current time of writing, it remains a high priority for employers. It is important and essential to keep your workers safe. With one-third of your life spent at work a safe environment is a necessity. With Total Clean, we offer a specialised Coronavirus and Monkeypox deep clean service which kills not only airborne pathogens but also decontaminates areas that can’t be reached by conventional cleaning
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