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Prof Charles Gerba shook hands for what should happen to be the 100th time that day and kept talking as he seamlessly turned to the hand-wash dispenser along with the soft toilet seat.
“You know, 20% of germs you’ll transmit are passed through toilet seat,” the man some within the United States fondly call Dr Germ joked in a kitchen in Dunedin’s Regent Theatre yesterday.

“Just believe, it gets worse whenever you contemplate the quantity of persons who could possibly blow their nose or cough into their hand prior to they do so – but I suppose we can’t go through life thinking like that.”

Prof Gerba had just finished delivering a 45-minute presentation on the the link in between standard hygiene, cleanliness and illness to about 70 Dunedin workers and employers.

They learned the average office desk could have 400 times the quantity of bacteria of a Toilet Seat, and that many workplaces had been potentially a lot more harmful right after they had been cleaned with no disinfectant.

The Arizona University researcher’s operate found at least half of studied workplaces within the United States had been contaminated with influenza viruses and that norovirus was on 20% of toilet seat.

Those and a lot of other horror statistics translated to illness and absenteeism.

Studies in schools suggested straightforward and successful cleaning and hand washing could cut absenteeism by half.

New Zealand companies and officials needed to keep in mind the “health” component of occupational security and well being.

“After all, there is only so significantly that can now be done by eliminating workplace hazards.

I get the impression that the Labour Department and corporations have been quite excellent at that,” Prof Gerba said.

“The next battle, I suppose, is for people to turn their attention to ensuring the basic wellbeing of the workplace to ensure that occupational safety continues to increase.”

Prof Gerba was brought to New Zealand by Dunedin corporation Crest Commercial Cleaning.

Managing director Grant McLauchlan said hygiene-related absenteeism could account for 3% of your business’s wage bill.

Chairman of directors Martin Perkinson said the firm planned to function with the toilet seats and Well being Ministry to see how workplace cleanliness and protocols could improve staff wellbeing and economic performance.