Juanita: Hey, where have you been? I was going to invite you to lunch,
but you weren’t at your desk.
Bill: I was at a training.
Juanita: What was it on?
Bill: Office hygiene.
hygiene;
衛生法
Juanita: Hygiene? You’re kidding. Your office is
pretty messy but I wouldn’t say you needed hygiene
training.
Bill: Very funny. Each department has to go through it.
You’ll have your turn next week. Apparently, the management
wants to reduce the spread of illnesses around the office. They say that
people are taking too many sick days and it’s bad for
productivity.
Juanita: So, we all have to sit through a training.
What a pain! It’s not like we don’t know how to wash our
hands.
Bill: Yeah, I know. The trainer did a pretty good job,
though, explaining how germs spread around the office. It’s easy to
infect other people when you have a cold or something else that’s
contagious. She said that viruses get around pretty easily. She
gave us some pointers on how to prevent it,
though.
Contagious:
伝染性の
get around:
広まる
Juanita: Well, I use antibacterial soap all the
time, so I don’t worry about it.
Bill: You know, the trainer said that those soaps may
not be that effective. People think they’re sterilizing their hands,
but they may be doing more harm than good.
Sterilizing:
殺菌消毒
Juanita: Really? I’ve never heard that
before.
Bill: Then you’d better go to the training. I guess
you need it more than I do.
Juanita: Yeah, very funny.