A recent scientific study examined how often passengers and crew on cruise ships wash or disinfect their hands – and whether current practices are...
Hand Hygiene on Cruise Ships: What a Recent Study Reveals
Electronic Monitoring is Shaping the Future of Hand Hygiene
Hand hygiene saves lives, the way hospitals track it hasn’t changed in decades. Many facilities still rely on short observational audits or rough...
Smart dispensers provide data on hand hygiene in General Practice Offices
As part of a comprehensive study in four Dutch general practice offices (GPO’s), digital hand sanitizer dispensers from OPHARDT Hygiene helped...
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Healthcare workers want electronic feedback to improve hand hygiene in their workplaces, but they want this feedback to be tracked on a group level, not individually. These findings, recently published in the Journal of Hospital Infection, highlight...
Germany‘s public health insurer is reporting that hospitals and clinics are hiring more hygiene staff. This trend is primarily due to new funding made available through national health insurance funds. Even with these new measures, is there still a...
A simpler alternative to the well-established 6-steps of hygienic hand disinfection is now being proposed. Is this a fundemental change for hand hygiene? Hygienic hand disinfection is known to be the most important measure for preventing nosocomial...
For more than a year now, the novel COVID-19 has kept the world on edge. Since the virus first appeared in China more than 100 million people worldwide have been infected with it, and nearly 4,3 million people have died. [1] Faced with lockdowns and...
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...
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...
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...
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...