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Peter Sheldon:
Some of the dirtiest places in most commercial buildings are around food service areas. Also, any place that people touch a lot - keyboards, telephone receivers, door handles, desktops, tabletops - they are just filthy.

Peter Sheldon, Vice President of Coverall Cleaning Concepts, says to help prevent yourself from getting sick…

The number one thing that everyone can do to protect themselves is to wash your hands, and wash your hands as often as you can - wash them effectively. Typically you sing the happy birthday song twice while you're washing your hands. Then you can use your alcohol-based hand sanitizers - that is important. Don't eat at your desk as well; eating at your desk provides food for bacteria. Keeping some sanitizing wipes - something as simple as wiping down your keyboard buttons, your phone buttons, your calculator buttons, your handset and receiver will help eliminate a lot of the pathogens.

In order to keep people from getting sick, there has been a shift away from the typical janitorial service at office buildings that just wipes off the desk, empties the trash and vacuums a little.

Up to this point, that has always been good enough but what we know today is that there is a lot more to it. Things like the flu that can spread around your office like crazy - hygienic cleaning is one path that can help reduce some of those occurrences.

At somethingyoushouldknow.net I'm Mike Carruthers and that's Something You Should Know.