Hands are one of the most common ways in which infection can be spread. Keeping your hands clean is one of the best ways to prevent from getting sick and/or preventing the spread of infection.
Cleaning your hands will help get rid of germs you get from other people, from the surfaces you touch and animals you come in contact with and prevents these germs from being spread to others. Just because hands look clean, we cannot assume that they are clean. To reduce the spread of infection it is important that hand hygiene is carried out at the right time and in the right way.
Proper Hand Washing Methods
• Wet your hands under warm running water
• Apply liquid soap into a cupped hand and rub palms together to work up a lather
• Wash all hand surfaces several times, remembering palms,
back of hands, finger tips, between fingers, thumbs and wrists.
• Remember to wash and rinse under your ring, if worn
• Rinse your hands under running water
• Pat hands dry with good quality paper towels that are soft and absorbent
• Don’t forget to dry under your ring
• It should take 40-60 seconds to wash and dry your hands
