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linking hand hygiene and food hygiene, we wanted to focus on how employees often eat at their desks or in meetings, using their hands and fingers. With increased ‘hot-desking’ and shared meeting space, proper hand washing and drying before and after food becomes even more important to help prevent the spread of nasty bacteria and illnesses.”
KCP has created a special Scott Clean toolkit for Global Handwashing Day, which will provide Facilities Managers with everything they need to engage their guests and employees to enhance hand hygiene and maximise infection prevention. The toolkit includes hand hygiene posters and washroom mirror stickers, plus healthy snacks and postcards to hand out, a selfie photo frame and Global Handwashing Day-themed novelties. A digital eToolkit is also available.
A helping hand for Global Handwashing Day 2018
Kimberly-Clark Professional is embracing Global Handwashing Day on 15 October, which has a theme this year of ‘Clean Hands – a recipe for health’.
KCP is supporting facilities managers with a range of tools to help them champion hand hygiene, health and wellbeing in the workplace, in relation to snacking and eating.
Caroline Stanley, UK Head of Marketing at Kimberly-Clark Professional, said: “With Global Handwashing Day 2018
Study finds jet air dryers unsuitable for hospitals
Jet air hand dryers should not be used in hospital toilets, according to research that shows they spread more germs than disposable paper towels.
The study, led by researchers from the University of Leeds and Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust, and funded by the European Tissue Symposium, investigated whether the way people dried their hands has an impact on the spread of bacteria.
Three hospitals – in the UK, France and Italy – were studied over the course of 12 weeks, with each toilet equipped with both jet air dryers and paper towels, but with only one in operation each day.
In the UK and France, five times more bacteria were recovered from the floors when jet air dryers were in use, compared with paper towels.
Staphylococcus aureus (including MRSA) was found three times more often and in higher amounts on the surface of the jet air dryers in the UK hospital, compared with the paper towel dispensers.
Mark Wilcox, Professor of Medical Microbiology at the University of Leeds, who supervised the international study, said: “The problem starts because some people do not wash their hands properly.
“When people use a jet air dryer, the microbes get blown 18 | WHAT’S NEW?
off and spread around the toilet room. In effect, the dryer creates an aerosol that contaminates the toilet room, including the dryer itself and potentially the sinks, floor and other surfaces, depending on the dryer design and where it is sited. If people touch those surfaces, they risk becoming contaminated by bacteria or viruses.”
The researchers are calling for Department of Health guidelines to be strengthened: air dryers can currently be placed in public areas of hospitals, but not clinical areas. This isn’t because of the cross-contamination risk, but only because of noise.
You can read the study online in the Journal of Hospital Infection here.
(Image Credit: University of Leeds)
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https://www.sciencedirect. com/science/article/pii/ S0195670118303669).
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Caroline continued: “We’ve designed the Scott Clean toolkit to help facilities managers and employers show they really care for their guests and employees by promoting Scott single use paper towels and foam hand cleansers in the washroom as an essential step before every meal or snack. We want this initiative to celebrate facilities managers for choosing Scott and to positively impact employee health and wellbeing in the workplace.”
You can obtain a Scott Clean Global Handwashing Day toolkit here.
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