For business owners, the cooler months can pose potential harm to productivity and impact business profitability as a result of colds and flu. Airborne bacteria can easily spread by sharing common office items such as phones, keyboards and photocopiers. Experts warn that the potentially harmful micro-organism’s that thrive on your phone and keyboard, can hitchhike their way via your hands, and directly into your body through your mouth, eyes and ears. This cross contamination problem is further exacerbated in shared environments such as call centres, schools, universities and libraries. To minimize the spread of the nasty viruses there are many preventative measures you can implement within your workplace with regular cleaning using disinfecting wipes to maintain a healthy work environment.