Clean your keyboard stay healthy

Clean your keyboard stay healthy.

IT consultants spend most of their life time on their desk for various activities. During ITProductivityTools seminars, we asked consultants to find out the dirtiest thing on their desk. Guess what? No. It is not your bag, purse, paperweight......It is your own keyboard and mouse.

To verify this fact just lift your keyboard and turn it upside down and shake it. You will find lots of dirty particles including samples of the food that you ate months ago, hairs, warts, dandruffs, nose hairs, lot of dust, fungus, ants, sugar, salt, small dust particles.

The fallen particles you just observed are visible to human naked eye. What about observing these under the microscope. You will be surprised to know that these contain lot of bacterias that are responsible for your frequent cough, cold and other illnesses.

We flush toilet every time. Also it gets cleaned on a regular schedule.

What about your keyboard? It is the dirtiest item on your desk. Followed by that mouse is the second dirtiest thing on your desk. You accompany these items for more than 8 hours, you type with keyboard while eating. You move your mose for clicking. Do you know how much of bacterias you are feeding to yourself? A lot of.

Most of the companies do not have schedule to clean keyboards and mouse. Your health is at risk. The productivity of the compnay is ultimately at risk.

Here is what is helpful and is recommended by ITProductivityTools.com

Everyday morning before typing on the keyboard, just turn it upside down and shake it. While doing this keep your nose away from the keyboard. Do not inhale the falling particles.

Use a keyboard wipe to clean the keyboard top surface on a regular schedule.

Clean your mouse with wipe on regular schedule.

There are some keyboards made of rubber and are flexible. Such kayboards are much much cleaner than the regular one. Those are also called as silent keyboards. Replace your keyboard with the silent keyboard and water clean it on a regular schedule.

Have a good enough distance between keyboard and your nose. Be aware that while breathing you suck a lot of air and along with that chances of breathing bacterias from your keyboard are high.

It is not a bad idea to replace your keyboard on a regular schedule. Some companies follow this practice.

If your work demands you to swap your desk many times, then make others aware about cleanliness. Every time you visit other desk make sure prior to typing just turn the keyboard upside down and shake. The owner of the desk will realise the need of doing it if he is unaware of dirt in his keyboard.

If swipes supplied by your company contain irritating smell, then let your company know it politely

For keyboard prefer white color keys, this will help in detecting the dirt easily.