Free Workplace Hygiene Notice

Click Here to download a PDF memo with a workplace health message. You can print it off and display it where staff take a break, or email it to your colleagues.

Winter flu time is coming…with colder weather people are drawn indoors and flu and cold viruses are passed more easily from person to person. Swine flu will return this year to “mop up” those who previously escaped infection, a flu expert says:

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/5088518/Swine-flu-expected-in-mop-up-outbreak

Research into office environments strongly indicates that improved cleaning can lessen rates of absenteeism, by preventing illness spreading around the workplace.

There is also a direct link between better cleaning and increased productivity.*

In terms of maintaining productivity and the health of employees the best solution is to take early measures to reduce the risk of people getting sick from their working environment.

Hence the importance of keeping the workplace hygienic and clean.