We all know you should be washing your hands but are you aware of just how good it is at infection control? It’s so important, wherever you are, that you make sure you wash your hands after every toilet visit, before and after preparing food, after a cough or sneeze and when dealing with patients.
Why should you wash your hands?
First of all, it is the easiest way to prevent sickness in the workplace. A typical worker in an office comes in to contact with 10 MILLION germs A DAY.
Toilets, and in particular, faeces, are a big source of germs, such as Salmonella and Norovirus which can give you diarrhoea. In fact you’re 31% more likely to get diarrhoea if you do not wash your hands.
A single gram of human faeces—which is about the weight of a paper clip—can contain one trillion germs. These germs can get onto people’s hands and if they are not washed off can be passed from person to person and could make you sick.
Bacteria can spread very quickly- in just 8 hours one bacterium could have multiplied by 17 million. Handwashing properly reduces the amount of bacteria on your hands and the chances of it spreading further.
But, did you know that 1 in 10 people do not wash their hands?
Say you work in an office of ten people: you probably think one person isn’t that bad.
But imagine this, that one person could be the colleague opposite you who has just gone to toilet. On his or her way back to the desk, he/she has offered to do a tea round. Everyone loves tea so they’re now making all nine of you a drink.
That’s the side of yours and eight other cups that’s been touched with unclean hands from the toilet that you will then hold onto, maybe touch your face to scratch an itch – even eat some food – transferring any germs.
Don’t worry we aren’t telling you to sit in isolation – hand hygiene with AHS is actually very easy.
We offer products which do a lot of the hard work for you. We take care of all the servicing too and we even offer products which will work to kill bacteria when not in use – so even if that one person in 10 doesn’t wash their hands your workplace won’t suffer.
Products
- Plasma Hand Dryer kills 80% of bacteria in the air, on the surfaces and on your hands. Check out our detailed blog here absolutehygienesolutions.com/blog/plasma-hand-dryer
- Enduro Sanitizer: Washing with soap kills more germs than just water and people tend to scrub their hands more thoroughly when there is soap, therefore killing more germs. Enduro preserves natural skin oils rather than stripping them like alcohol based products, remains on the skin and is proven to continue to work 2 hours after application!
- Jet Air Hand Dryer the HEPA filter traps 99.5% of bacteria whilst the UV technology kills those that bacteria that dares to remain. It also features an antimicrobial coating further inhibiting bacteria growth.
If you want to find out more about our products, don’t hesitate to contact us on 02083179693, email us enquiries@absolutehygienesolutions.com or tweet us @AbsoluteHygiene
