Companies are being urged to make sure IT Equipment is professionally cleaned and disinfected as staff return to the office after lockdowns.
Trafford-based TechDisinfect says firms need to put the safety and wellbeing of employees first as office working makes a comeback over the coming months.
The company, founded by Urmston-based businessman Karim Samani in 2019, specialises in the professional disinfection of IT devices using its own high-grade anti-bacterial products.
Karim, who himself became ill because of dirty and unhygienic office equipment, says most employers take office cleaning seriously. But properly disinfecting items such as computers, keyboards, laptops and printers etc are often an after-thought.
Hidden dangers lurk in our tech, with lab tests carried out by the company revealing evidence of harmful spreadable infections such as Coronavirus, Norovirus, Salmonella, Listeria, Swine Flu and more.
Karim said: “Professionally cleaning office IT equipment is something most employers sadly don’t think about. Time and resources are devoted to cleaning most areas of the office – but for some reason, we neglect the machines we spend eight hours a day using.
“Covid-19 should be a wake-up call for us all that we can no longer ignore the hidden threats to staff safety and wellbeing in our workplace. Just tip a keyboard upside down and you will see the nasties that are lurking in there. Our own expert cleaners have found everything from food and crumbs to maggots and dead bugs.
“That’s just the dangers we can see through. Look under a microscope and you will see even more threats to our health from a huge range of bacteria and pathogens.”
