“Why is sharing knowledge about hand hygiene still so important?”. This is the official slogan of World Hand Hygiene Day 2024, which will...
Hand hygiene dispenser: manual or touchless?
When purchasing soap and hand sanitizer dispensers, hygiene managers and others often ask how they should be operated. In addition to the...
Sanitizer dispensers from OPHARDT support study at Rotterdam University Hospital
The renowned Erasmus University Medical Center investigated the influence of a visual feedback system on the rubbing time for hygienic hand...
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Is the rise of allergies in developed societies correlated to hygiene? That was the idea behind the now famous hygiene hypothesis posited by epidemiologist...
Whenever we go to a restaurant, we assume that those handling food products also employ proper hand hygiene techniques. In any food environment, cooks or...
Nearly all healthcare professionals in the modern era come into regular contact with alcohol-based hand sanitizers as part of their hand hygiene program. In...
According to a recent study by the renowned journal, The Lancet, more than half a million people die each year worldwide as a result of influenza-related...
Touchless functions, signal colours and smart technologies are all components of an hand hygiene dispenser that will provide optimal medical hand hygiene in...
Is dry time more important that consumer preferences? The rapidly growing popularity of foaming hand sanitizers complicates the question for whether healthcare...
Everyday life in many European prisons is often characterised by overcrowding, drug use and violence, often leading to a higher risk of communicable diseases...
A multimodal approach to fighting a rising problem The rise of multi-resistant pathogens poses a massive challenge to modern medicine, but the solutions are...
Ground breaking cross-border project studies how children can be motivated to wash hands thoroughly As children, we spend time learning, developing and...
When dealing with hygiene in public washrooms, there are several components that combine to create a hygenic experience. We recently reviewed an article...