There is never any risk of catching any STD (including herpes) by contact with environmental objects including door knobs, toilet seats, kitchen utensils, or anything else you can think of. For example, people living in a house or apartment with someone with chlamydia, HPV, HSV, HIV, or any other STD never become infected themselves even after years of sharing toilets, kitchens, and household objects (assuming they are not sex partners of each other). The STD bacteria and viruses evolved to require the intimate contact of sex to move from one person to another. Of course

Therefore, nobody will ever catch your oral HSV1 except if you sexually kiss them (vigorous, open mouth kissing not a peck on the cheek) or perform oral sex. There is no risk to anybody from your day to day contact with them.

In addition, people are resistant to new infection with the HSV type they already have. Since you have oral HSV1, you cannot be infected with HSV1, even by sex or kissing someone else with HSV1. For the same reason you cannot transfer your oral herpes to another place on your body (such as your genitals.)

These facts should settle your concerns -- i.e. no worries at all. But let me know if anything isn't clear.

HHH, MD