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How to Reduce Your Total Cost of Ownership
While Reducing the Risk of Illness in Your Workplace
Electronic equipment, especially the common-use PC keyboard, is a major source of infection in the workplace. Accumulations of germs (microbes, including bacteria, viruses, algae and mold) on and in electronic equipment cause cross-contamination that spreads illness from employee to employee. Most cleaning methods don’t prevent cross-contamination. Bio-Shield does. It’s an affordable, biological-based (green) cleaning method. The Bio-Shield Method uses advanced technologies, including immersion deep-cleaning and the optional BioShield® 75 long-term antimicrobial preventative.
By scientifically attacking cross-contamination, the Bio-Shield Method provides a much cleaner, healthier workplace for your employees and your customers. This same cleaning method also reduces the total cost of ownership (TCO) of the equipment, by reducing cooling costs, reducing equipment damage during cleaning, delaying disposal costs, and delaying replacement costs.
Surface Cleaning Is Not Disinfecting
If you lease electronic equipment, you probably rely on the leasing company’s cleaning methods, whatever they may be. If you own your equipment, your IT department probably does the cleaning. Most IT departments do a good job of cleaning. Some go as far as disassembling before cleaning. Some even disassemble keyboards.
And, of course, your employees may occasionally help out by vacuuming and wiping down their equipment, especially keyboards, mice and monitor screens.
But when it comes to the control of germs, these traditional, surface-only cleaning methods are far less effective than you may assume. They don’t prevent cross-contamination – they may even increase it. |
Your Average Keyboard in the Office or at home! |
For example, it is impossible to effectively vacuum every corner and crevice inside a CPU, printer or keyboard. You miss a lot of germ-laden dust and moisture and possibly the sticky residue of dried coffee and soft drinks (which attract even more dust and moisture).
You may ask, “Does it really matter? After all, we touch doorknobs all day long and nothing happens.” However, when employees touch doorknobs they are highly conscious of germs; they are unlikely to touch a doorknob and then touch their mouth, nose or eyes.
But in the apparent safety of their offices, they usually forget these precautions. Also, employees who eat and drink at their desks will eventually spill a new load of trillions of germs into the keyboard. Some keyboards contain more bacteria than a toilet bowl in a public rest room.
What “Dust” Really Is
You know that the internal fans in CPUs and printers are constantly sucking in dust. Much of the sucked-in dust builds up around the fans.
We tend to think of dust as microscopic particles of soil, smoke, and fiber from clothing and carpets – plus pollen in season. But what we informally call “dust” also includes moisture, fungus, human hair, flakes of human skin, animal fur, flakes of animal skin, dust mites, dust mite feces (a major allergen), and more. This is a breeding ground for bacteria.
The internal fans eventually blow this germ-laden dust out of the equipment and back into your office environment, to be touched or inhaled by your employees and customers.
How Cleaning Affects Your TCO
Inadequate cleaning methods also increase the total cost of ownership of your equipment.
When dust and moisture build up on internal fans and other subassemblies, the equipment runs hotter. It requires more electricity for cooling. It operates less efficiently. You will have to replace it sooner.
And every time you disassemble something and clean it, you run the risk of permanently damaging it (especially keyboards, which are not designed to be disassembled).
In addition to replacement cost, there is the ever-increasing cost of disposal. Because electronic equipment contains hazardous materials such as lead and mercury, landfills are charging more and more to accept the equipment.
And there is also the environmental cost of dumping those metals.
In addition, there is a humane cost: Electronic waste or “E-waste” has become a billion-dollar industry; much of the discarded equipment is not buried in landfills but shipped to overseas slave-labor sweatshops for the reclamation of precious metals such as gold and silver.
Bio-Shield: Effective, Affordable and Green
Bio-Shield is a modern, high-tech method that solves or reduces all these problems. It vastly reduces cross-contamination (our scientific testing method will prove it to you), thereby reducing workplace infection and the spread of illness.
Bio-Shield prolongs the life of your equipment, thereby lowering your TCO by delaying disposal costs and replacement costs. It reduces E-waste. It takes away worry and gives you peace of mind.
The Bio-Shield Method is offered by Herrin Enterprises, a long-established cleaning company in New England. Herrin has discovered a way to safely deep-clean electronic devices by immersing them in a liquid medium and applying a wave technology to loosen the dirt, which is then washed and rinsed away.
In other words, the Bio-Shield cleaning system is a larger, more high-tech version of the familiar jewelry cleaner. What makes Bio-Shield safe for electronics is our proprietary drying system.
Our drying system is a regulated drying cabinet that is custom-built for the purpose. It uses radiant heat and dehumidification air flow. Anyone can wet an electronic device, but only Bio-Shield can properly dry it. In as little as 24 hours, your devices are thoroughly dry and functional, and ready to be shipped back to you.
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