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Founded by the Global Public-Private Partnership for Handwashing, the global annual day is to remind individuals to cultivate proper and adequate handwashing habits. By constantly remembering to wash your hands after visiting a washroom, before and after food handling or engaging in activities with cross contamination risks, we can help to reduce the risks of contracting diseases due to poor hygiene.
As the leading hygiene specialist, we embrace Global Handwashing Day objectives in adhering hand hygiene standards by fostering the culture locally and reinforce the benefits of handwashing.
We can transmit germs and bacteria in various ways:
As our hands are constantly in contact with surfaces, actions, activities or an environment with people interaction and traffic, we are unable to assure hygiene are met with our naked eyes. There is also a misperception of clean surfaces equals to hygienic surfaces. A clean surface may habour germs.
On average, we visit 2,500 times to the washroom in a year, which equates to 6 to 8 times a year. This places us higher risks of cross contamination and picking up diseases relating to hygiene such as gastrointestinal infection, for example Salmonella and respiratory infections such as influenza.
It only takes 20 seconds to wash your hands and a constant reminder and habit to remember to wash them. Ensure handwashing tools and facilities are made available to cultivate this habit, such as hand soap, hand drying tools and hand sanitisers.
Our hand sanitiser dispensers come with skin friendly yet powerful sanitiser that kills 99.9% of germs.
Our award-winning Signature soap dispensers are built with seamless curves and an integral antibacterial surface to reduce the spread of germs.
Wet hands are a magnet for attracting bacteria rather than dry hands. Ensures the right hand drying solution is provided for your washroom visitors.