Why is it important to regularly disinfect your workplace

Good hygiene is of great importance to ensure that you are not getting in contact with pathogens

Hygiene, especially in the workplace, has never been more important as now. Regular cleaning and hand washing is not enough to reduce health risk. (regularly clean and disinfect)

Why is hygiene important?

Micro-organisms are everywhere, such as your hands, but also in the shower and the kitchen. Micro-organisms include, for example, bacteria, viruses and fungi.

There are harmless micro-organisms, but there are also disease-causing micro-organisms which causes bacterial infections. 

Some examples of pathogenic microorganisms are coronavirus, flu virus, e-coli bacteria and candida.

To give these pathogens no chance to infect you, it is important to ensure good hygiene.

When we talk about hygiene, we refer to a collective name for all actions that ensure that there is less contact with pathogens.

These acts can be:

·        Hand washing with soap (routine cleaning)

·        Showering

·        Cleaning and sanitizing the kitchen and bathroom

·        Storing food in the refrigerator

·        Disinfecting objects or surfaces

·        Purifying sewage to name just a few examples.

An important difference is that 'hygiene' and 'clean' are not the same things. Your hands and surfaces may look clean, but that does not mean that you can immediately speak of good hygiene.

To be able to speak of good hygiene, the pathogenic micro-organisms on the skin and surfaces must be removed. And that is not possible by cleaning, but by disinfecting.

That’s why it is important to regularly disinfect your workplace to reduce the infection numbers and contain a good hygiene.

What measures at work for good hygiene?

It starts with personal hygiene, such as washing your hands with soap and water to clean the contaminants on the human body.

The skin should then be disinfected with a suitable disinfectant to enter the bacterial cells that are present in the human cells. It is recommended to use a disinfectant with a reduced alcohol percentage or an alcohol-free hand sanitizer.

If you use alcohol based hand sanitizers for too long, your resistance will deteriorate because alcohol also kills the 'good' bacteria on the skin.

Logic Sept Plus is an alcohol-free disinfectant that protects the human skin against pathogenic bacteria and viruses. After treatment with Logic Sept Plus, the human cells will be protected for 2 to 3 hours.

This makes Logic Sept Plus suitable for children, seniors and others with a sensitive skin.

Surface disinfection

Subsequently, it is important to disinfect surfaces regularly, because pathogens can also be present on surfaces of your working environment.

When you touch these surfaces with your hand and then your nose or mouth, you can become infected with these germs and you maintain to poor hygiene.

Disinfection of contact points at work are therefore the most important key areas to reduce health risk.

guidance for cleaning and disinfecting

This includes door handles, kitchen appliances, toilets, common objects, but your desk and keyboard are also a breeding ground for bacteria.

Surfaces and objects should therefore be disinfected to reduce the contamination numbers.

When you want to disinfect surfaces, it is recommended to use a surface disinfectant that does not affect the surface.

It is therefore important that you use a product with a reduced alcohol percentage and no bleaching effect. An example of such a product is Logic Germ surface disinfectant.

Logic Germ contains 30% alcohol and consists of natural products and therefore has no bleaching effect. Due to these qualitative characteristics of the product, Logic Germ can also be used on porous surfaces.

After surfaces have been disinfected, the effect and effectiveness of Logic Germ lasts for a long time.

In order to maintain good hygiene in the workplace, it is not only important that employees know the hygiene measures.

Employees should also know their usefulness and necessity.

Only then will employees be more willing to comply with these measures.

Information meetings are therefore recommended so that employees can express their thoughts about the measures taken.