Cleaning/sanitising computers

[forkies]

So recently my technician and myself have gone down with some nasty cold. I seem to be getting more colds or bugs over the past few months and I am putting it down to the grubbing keyboards and mice we have to touch every day. We have around 300 desktops across the site for student use and we barely get the time to clean our own keyboards let alone think about cleaning those too. We do try and clean staff laptops as the come in, you can clearly see where people have sneezed all over the screen and keyboard and it is disgusting!

 

My question is, what do you guys/girls do about cleaning the keyboards/screens/mice around site?

Do you get an external company in and if so how often? Also how much does it cost you (per pc)?

If you do it yourself, again how often and how many do you clean?

Do your cleaners clean them? (Ours barely clean the classrooms and I wouldn't trust them to actually not break the computers)

Or do you not clean them?

 

I am getting a quote from a local cleaning company but still waiting a reply, my concern is this is a health and safety issue (especially in a school) were computers are touched by nearly every student and germs can travel quickly. I am just dreading the quote from the external company being ridiculous and our business manager just telling me to clean them within my department, which has already been cut 33% and with never ending and piling list of jobs to do, this would never get done. I would rather take my 26 days remaining holiday before April then clean keyboards.

 

Anyway a bit off point now, thanks in advance for all your wisdom!

[john]

Every holiday we would give a the IT Rooms a decent clean, work load permiting, we wouldn't get everyone done but got around half done and if we had, shock horror, a quiet after school period / a room was looking bad, we would give it a good clean.

 

Where I work now we have a firm that comes in once a year and gives all the PCs a good clean and they do a reasonable job and its a few quid per PC and we have about 100 to do, we used to be more frequently than yearly but budget cuts hit us all

[ICTDirect_Dave]

You can't clean peripherals between every lesson, it's not practical unfortunately.

 

You could always put a hand sanitiser at the entrance to each IT suite however. Similar to a hospital, if everyone goes into a room with germ free mitts there's going to be less chance to infection spreading.

[john]

You can't clean peripherals between every lesson, it's not practical unfortunately.

 

You could always put a hand sanitiser at the entrance to each IT suite however. Similar to a hospital, if everyone goes into a room with germ free mitts there's going to be less chance to infection spreading.

 

Or the kids just drink it and enjoy the drunkeness

[ICTDirect_Dave]

Or the kids just drink it and enjoy the drunkeness

 

What's the worst that could happen..?