As some countries reopen schools and as others fiercely debate whether to, hygiene practices at our schools are focal points of attention and anxiety. For a prescient professor and OPHARDT Hygiene, it was already front-of-mind before the pandemic...
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At the Institute for Infection Prevention and Hospital Epidemiology in Freiburg, Germany, we met a true hand hygiene pioneer: Prof. Franz Daschner. We talked to him about the introduction of the Euro bottle almost 50 years ago and its...
As many countries are fighting a second wave of COVID-19 infections, researchers have found one new explanation for why the disease has higher transmission rates than the flu. Clinical Infectious Diseases journal found that the coronavirus (SARS-CoV...
As we mark the 12th annual Global Handwashing Day, it seems that good hand hygiene—the most effective protection against infectious diseases—has never been as important as it this year in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic. Handwashing as a...
RESPONSIBILITY e.V. is a non-profit organization founded in 2016 by a group of OPHARDT Hygiene employees. The RESPONSIBILITY Club’s mission centres on promoting health and quality of life in underdeveloped communities around the world by providing...
Climate Saver Award 2020. In April of last year, we launched the campaign Climate Savers – Lifesavers program (“Klimaretter-Lebensretter”) at our Issum location, which was designed to encourage a more conscious and sustainable use of resources...
Since 2016, OPHARDT Hygiene has been organizing an annual networking event, called the BRAIN-Forum. During this event, partners, customers, and industry experts are invited to our company headquarters in Issum, Germany, to exchange ideas on the...
Healthcare systems are preparing themselves for an emergency as the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic will overlap with the impending wave of seasonal influenza infections. Compliance with well-known infection prevention measures will determine how critical...
OPHARDT Hygiene develops innovative solutions for medical hand hygiene to optimize infection prevention and improve patient care in hospitals. We spoke with Peter Ickert and Albrecht Lang about the current developments of the OPHARDT Hygiene...
In a recently published study in the Journal of Hospital Infection, hand hygiene compliance in German hospitals showed improvements in four of the five moments for hand hygiene, according to data collected between 2015 and 2018. The data also...