Having a laminated card on each desk with a quick guide to hot desk set up worked quite well for a previous employer- just setting out how to get chair to a comfortable position, key points with regard to environment, stretch techniques and who to contact for questions and requests.

Ray i'm the opposite I like it and enjoy the fact that your moved around gives the oppotunity to get to know people you might not come into contact with if you were sat at your own desk. I'm not against having your own desk but it helps new employees settle in quicker.

What about the health issue of using a keyboard and mouse that has been used by another employee.

Just pick up your keyboard, turn it upside down and give it a gentle shake to see what falls out.

I was once asked this question by an employee who occasionally used a different PC to his own. The regular user was known to pick his nose while at his desk.

What about using door handles, you can't avoid them and they have more germs, money is another,
Key boards are the least of your worries.

after extensive experience in the area and noting that hot-desking is probably more of a fashion to make more money than anything else; I feel that hot-desking can work well if employers plan well and note that, with the odd exception e.g. hermits, humans are basically and primarily pack / group animals so like to work/be together in a familiar and safe setting and find it very uncomfortable ['stressful' could be the word used] if things are otherwise

my advice is to plan [inclusive of proper communication, consultation and equipment] properly and provide adequate resources, with managers and directors setting the example e.g. management hot-desk as well [but that does not usually happen]

as already noted there are many areas to consider especially personal hygiene so its not a small task and usually a task that makes the money men happy and nobody else
best of luck

What happened, was there hell to pay, for some unfortunate? Remember Ray,
'Strangers are only friends we haven't met yet'.

Firstly in places where I have worked and use 'hot desking', for most staff (apart from the occasional IT users who do so little actual computer work that they would not count under the DSE regs anyway) they end up at a favourite desk anyway. For most people DSE is not really a big deal and a quick reminder for them to check that they work station it set up correctly for them is all that is required. A laminated sheet is one possible way or a remainder that comes on when they log onto the system that connects them to the company’s DSE intranet pages.