Antimicrobial, push button switch assembly for use at a self-service, dispensing or charging station

An antimicrobial, push button switch assembly for use at a self-service dispensing or charging station, the assembly comprising:

• a housing;
• and
• a selection button supported for bi-directional movement within an opening in the housing and including a plastic substrate and a plastic film sheet bonded to the substrate in a molding process, the film sheet having an outer touch surface configured to be pressed by a customer to initiate a dispensing or charging transaction wherein the film sheet is configured to allow at least one of germicidal light and antimicrobial agents to travel therethrough to the outer touch surface to disinfect the outer touch surface of pathogenic microorganisms;
• and
• wherein the film sheet includes a clear plastic surface layer which has the antimicrobial agents which exhibit controlled migration through the surface layer to the outer touch surface.