STAYING CLEAN

STAYING CLEAN
Two key situations in the cleanliness campaign:
You've just washed your hands in the workplace bathroom and are headed back to your desk. What's the first thing you do? Open the bathroom door. Isn't it possible that your clean hands will be touching germs left by colleagues who didn't wash theirs?
"Absolutely right," said Judy Daly of the American Society for Microbiology. "That's why many health-care professionals keep hold of the paper towel they used to dry their hands and use it to open the door before discarding it."
You go to the company cafeteria to get a morning bagel. You pay with a $5 bill, get change, put the money in your pocket and go back to your desk to eat the bagel with your hands. Anything wrong with that?
"Things could live for quite a while on dirty money," Daly said. "If you're going to eat with your hands, you need to wash them after handling money."