Hand hygiene

With outbreaks of EHEC, MRSA, H5N1 and H1N1 being so often reported, Deb is highlighting the role good hand hygiene practice has to play in preventing the spread of these increasingly common germs.

Employers have a responsibility to provide adequate skin care facilities for all employees and addressing hand hygiene is an important part of this responsibility.

A hand sanitiser should complement routine hand washing and be re-applied every 2-3 hours and certainly immediately after coughing, sneezing or touching surfaces or items likely to have been contaminated. Organisations can also provide 'hand hygiene on the move' by supplying a personal issue sanitiser.