Transcript Hand Washing

Your hands are enemy number one
• Bacteria survive on warm moist surfaces
• Body temp at 37c is the optimum
temperature for bacteria.
• Hands should be washed and dried
thoroughly as any remaining moisture will
encourage bacteria to grow again!
When should you wash your hands?
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After visiting toilet (toilet paper is porous)
Before handling food
After attending to ill relative or a baby’s nappy
Between handling raw foods such as poultry, red meat,
eggs or shellfish and handling ready to eat foods
After changing of putting on a dressing
After cleaning up animal wastes
After combing or touching hair, nose, mouth or ears
After smoking, coughing or blowing the nose
After handling waste food or refuse
After handling dirty cloths
Hand washing tips
Around 3-5ml of liquid soap should be
applied to wet hands.
A good lather should be produced
by rubbing the hands and fingertips
together.
Between the fingers, around the
thumbs …….
……and wrists should be
thoroughly lathered for about 20
seconds.
Special attention should be paid to
the fingertips and nails.
The lather should be rinsed
off in warm flowing water at
around 43c”