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HAND HYGIENE


Get wise to hand hygiene campaign


This year’s Global Handwashing Day took place on 15 October 2018 and provided a creative platform to encourage people to wash their hands with soap at critical times. As part of the campaign, BHTA’s Decontamination and Infection Prevention section launched its latest publication to provide good practice when washing hands.


Global Handwashing Day is a global advocacy day dedicated to increasing awareness and understanding about the importance of handwashing with soap as an effective and affordable way to prevent diseases and save lives. BHTA’s publication was launched in conjunction with this year’s theme - the links between handwashing and food – including food hygiene and nutrition. The tagline, Clean hands – a recipe for health, is designed to remind the public to make handwashing a part of every meal. In support of areas of concern and talked about most recently in the press the BHTA Decontamination and Infection Prevention Members, industry experts have also released these an additional document, Decontamination of Medical Devices – How clean is clean? The aims of decontamination are to make reusable devices safe to be handled or used by: n Patients, carers, or other members of the public;


n NHS and Community staff; n Maintenance staff; n Carriers and other transportation services; and


n Supplier employees


Risk can be minimised by some simple precautions. This guidance document provides advice on the handling of devices to be returned following use, and the BHTA


gives guidance on the nature of decontamination required, as well as the generic methods to be used. Putting safe systems in place to manage the decontamination of devices will contribute to meeting the requirements of the Department of Health’s reduction of cross infection targets. The document can be downloaded at - http://bit.ly/2MtY8R7


Hand hygiene


Hand hygiene is widely acknowledged to be the single most important activity that reduces the spread of infection. Hand


There needs to be more education and awareness regarding the appropriate use of soap and water and alcohol based hand sanitisers. There must be a clear understanding of how and when these different applications should be used.


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hygiene should be performed immediately before and after every episode of hands being contaminated.


There are four stages to quality hand hygiene. The BHTA’s documents advises: 1. Hand cleansing – This fundamental step in hand hygiene is best practice. Apart from cleaning any visible soiling from hands, the physical action of good hand washing technique will remove high levels of bacteria and viruses also present on the skin


2. Hand sanitising – Very useful in reducing bacterial counts on visibly clean hands when access to soap and water are not available 3. Hand drying – It is important for optimum hygiene to dry hands thoroughly using absorbent disposable hand towels after washing because some bacteria remain on hands after washing, and these bacteria are more easily spread via wet hands than dry ones


4. Hand moisturising/rebalancing – Good skin condition is an important element in ensuring good hand hygiene practice and moisturising is the most important step in


NOVEMBER 2018


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