Accessibility of sanitizer dispensers is a major influencing factor in whether hospital visitors disinfect their hands when entering and leaving the building. Researchers uncover the disparities in perceived and actual hand hygiene behaviour in a...
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The Clinic for Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine at Klinikum Westbrandenburg in Potsdam improves patient safety and infection control in the neonatal unit thanks to easily accessible hand disinfectant dispensers. Neonatal units require the highest...
At OPHARDT Hygiene, we’ve outlined three main sustainability goals: improve health and well-being, cultivate stronger communities, and foster a thriving environment. We strive to make meaningful contributions to the circular economy and...
In a banner year for uncertainty, it feels like an impossible task to imagine what will come after the COVID-19 pandemic. While it is hard to think of the future beyond the day-to-day, our ability to keep people safe may depend on thinking a step...
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...
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...