Are photocopiers potential infection points for the flu virus?

[SalesServiceGuy]

The copier's LCD panel is touched by almost all of an office's employees several times per day. Can a flu virus survive on that surface for very long? Should a technician as part of their daily service calls be sanitizing control panels with a spray during flu season?

[ZOOTECH]

Re: Are photocopiers potential infection points for the flu virus?

The copier's LCD panel is touched by almost all of an office's employees several times per day. Can a flu virus survive on that surface for very long? Should a technician as part of their daily service calls be sanitizing control panels with a spray during flu season?

Let the sanitizing of the display/keyboard rest with the users. You can certainly wipe it down with cleaner/alcohol, but that may not actually clean up any viruses. But as a tech visiting a customer's location, I would always disinfect after a service call.

[mjarbar]

Re: Are photocopiers potential infection points for the flu virus?

Some of the places I have been to, it is safer to disinfect BEFORE the service call!!!

[Butrus]

Re: Are photocopiers potential infection points for the flu virus?

This is the joke of the day.

[DWise]

Re: Are photocopiers potential infection points for the flu virus?

The copier's LCD panel is touched by almost all of an office's employees several times per day. Can a flu virus survive on that surface for very long? Should a technician as part of their daily service calls be sanitizing control panels with a spray during flu season?

The flu virus can last up to 48 hours outside of the body. I would recommend sanitizing before I handled it and after.

[rthonpm]

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I always clean the op panels and buttons with alcohol before working on a machine. As far as some customers have their head in their ass I can only shudder in horror to think where their hands have been.

[CopierTechofOmens]

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I always clean the glass and leave the top up. People hate it when they go to copy their ass and the top is down and the glass is dirty. It's just good manners.

[Debs1964]

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Some of the places I have been to, it is safer to disinfect BEFORE the service call!!!

What do you expect in Essex

[mojorolla]

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Since the flu outbreak, I have been wiping down screens, buttons, and drawer handles. When I tell the customers this, they are always very grateful. Today, a woman insisted on giving me a hug.

My boss later told me hugs are considered a "bonus" and I will have to pay taxes on them.

I should have just licked the screen and called in sick with the flu the rest of the week.

[Brian8506]

Re: Are photocopiers potential infection points for the flu virus?

Really????? Is this AAB1 returning?

The copier's LCD panel is touched by almost all of an office's employees several times per day. Can a flu virus survive on that surface for very long? Should a technician as part of their daily service calls be sanitizing control panels with a spray during flu season?

[mojorolla]

Re: Are photocopiers potential infection points for the flu virus?

Really????? Is this AAB1 returning?

He must be more sales than service...

[oel]

Re: Are photocopiers potential infection points for the flu virus?

will get the viruses most likely on the elevator or at the store (coffe shop) than the equipment just remember that most people are just desperate to callin sick,ja...ja...ja

[mjarbar]

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What do you expect in Essex

It was in Waltham Forest but I can never work out if it's London or Essex

[rthonpm]

Re: Are photocopiers potential infection points for the flu virus?

Really????? Is this AAB1 returning?

I don't think it's AAB1, he didn't mention:

1. Anything that the user guide will clearly show you how to do
2. How his inkjet printer is soooo much better than any laser printer
3. Any comparison between his new HP and the old Canon he had

[prntrfxr]

Re: Are photocopiers potential infection points for the flu virus?

We have a new guy in sales. He was a technician before he came to work here and never got sick. After working here and being exposed to sick people in the office he got sick. He wondered how it was possible all those years as a tech not getting sick, then one week here and he gets sick.

I asked him if he washed his hands after every service call. Answer: Yes
Then I asked him if he did the same here. Answer: No

He asked me why I thought of that. I told him this:

I used to work at a company that produced plants for nurseries. Their facility was 4 one acre greenhouses that were connected by offices in the middle. We washed our hands with Betadyne solution before entering the greenhouses to prevent plant diseases from traveling from greenhouse 1 to greenhouse 3. A great side effect of washing our hands was that in over 7 years no one got sick.

The answer then, is not to disinfect the machine, but wash your hands frequently and you won't get sick. Touching things and putting your hands in your face is a worse way of transmitting germs than airborne transmission of germs.