The importance of washing hands at work

October 15 is World Handwashing Day, a date decreed by the WHO (Organization World Health) to encourage best hand hygiene practices.

Because washing your hands correctly with soap and warm water is one of the most effective and cheap to protect our health and prevent us from many diseases. It not only removes dirt and bacteria potentially harmful that we can contract in our hands, but also, it benefits everyone since stops the spread of germs.

In Reysan as experts in prevention and labor protection, we would like to extend the reasons about the importance handwashing in any workplace.

When to wash your hands at work?

Keep in mind that, to avoid the spread of germs in work facilities, Workers Hands should be washed frequently throughout the day. However, there are certain times when the risk of infection is much higher so it is especially important to wash your hands:

• Upon arrival at work.

• Before and after eating.

• Before preparing food.

• After touching common objects and surfaces.

• Before and after using the toilets.

• After coughing, sneezing, or blowing your nose.

• After handling waste or debris.

• At the end of the working day.

How to wash your hands?

It is essential to know how to wash your hands. However, in general The OMS recommends doing it as follows:

1. Wet your hands with warm, running water.

2. Rub your hands with soap thoroughly on the palms, backs, nails, fingers and between the fingers for at least 20 seconds.

3. Rinse your hands thoroughly with warm water.

4. Dry your hands with a clean air dryer or with single-use paper.

Tips to promote hand hygiene in the workplace

 

• Increase the availability of sinks and that they are also accessible to all workers, both in the bathrooms and in the common areas and dining rooms.

• Always have soap and a way to dry their hands so they can do it properly.

• Put hand sanitizers with at least 60% alcohol near surfaces that are touched. They play frequently.

• Put up visual signs as a reminder to wash their hands.

• Regularly clean surfaces that are frequently touched.

How to start drying your hands efficiently in a work environment?

In work environments, one of the main concerns during the washing and drying of hands is the transmission of viruses and bacteria during this process. This is because, on many occasions, during the drying of hands can have some type of direct contact with any surface or mechanism.

There is also the belief that the use of automatic hand dryers is not the best option because They expel airborne germs and bacteria directly onto your hands.

But thanks to new technologies this reasoning changes. There are dryers that have safe methods to dry hands quickly, hygienically and without contact. We couldn't find a better time to recommend the Dyson hand dryers.

If you need more information, on how to take care of hand hygiene or would like to acquire our Dyson hand dryer with dual wash and dry functionality, our team of experts will advise you at all times.