September is the month for cleaning your office environment. AF International, specialist suppliers of ICT and office cleaning products, warns that our keyboards and other equipment can contain harmful bacteria and provide the perfect breeding ground.

One area that is big news at the moment is computer and workstation hygiene - or lack of it, when you consider that statistics show that only 1 in 20 of installed PC's are cleaned regularly. Quite why this basic housekeeping is so neglected can only be guessed, but dirty PC's and office equipment contribute greatly to absenteeism through illness.