Beauty industry, Blog, Care homes, Food preparation, General news, Medical and healthcare, Schools and nurseries, Workforce hand washing
“Hand hygiene is not a luxury”
May
World Hand Hygiene Day 2024
“Each year the SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands campaign aims to progress the goal of maintaining a global profile on the importance of hand hygiene in health care and to ‘bring people together’ in support of hand hygiene improvement globally” begins the World Hand Hygiene Day SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands website.
The World Health Organization (WHO) is calling upon the worldwide health community to “be inspired” to enable universal health coverage – also referred to as UHC.
“Hand hygiene saves millions of lives every year when performed at the right times in health care.”
World Hand Hygiene Day also also “strongly supports” the Water, sanitation, hygiene and health (WASH) and Global antimicrobial resistance (AMR) agendas.
There are a number of useful resources that will help healthcare facilities to help spread the message of World Hand Hygiene Day 2024.
The Annual 5 May Advocacy Toolkit emphasises that effective hand hygiene is relevant for ALL members of the healthcare facility community – be they staff, patients or visitors.
Some of the statistics quoted in it are quite sobering…
“Approximately 70% of health care workers and 50% of surgical teams do not routinely practice hand hygiene.”
Other useful resources
Download the Your 5 Moments for Hand Hygiene poster »
The designated 5 moments of hand hygiene are:-
- Clean your hands before touching a patient when approaching him/her.
- Clean your hands immediately before performing a clean/aseptic procedure.
- Clean your hands immediately after an exposure risk to body fluids (and after glove removal).
- Clean your hands after touching a patient and her/his immediate surroundings, when leaving the patient’s side.
- Clean your hands after touching any object or furniture in the patient’s immediate surroundings, when leaving – even if the patient has not been touched.
“Wash hands when visibly soiled!”
Download the How to handwash? document »
Effective mobile hand washing for everyone – wherever they are
Teal produces a comprehensive range of mobile and washing units for every type of hand washing situation for use by anyone who needs to wash their hands effectively, whether they’re in hospital or medical facility, care home, an office environment, temporary accommodation or out in the field on a daily basis.
Mobile hand wash stations can also be hired »
There are vehicle mounted, wall mounted, mains powered and free standing hand wash stations as well as mobile sinks for use with pre-heated hot water.
The Teal range of mobile sinks includes the MediWash, Hygienius and Hygienius ProWash, BigSynk, Super Stallette, TEALwash, Handeman Xtra, Compact Classic, HandSpa, CliniWash – and now the new WashStand Xtra.