Plastics in OPHARDT Plastics play a crucial role in the design and functionality of OPHARDT’S products, from durable dispensing systems to single-use...
OPHARDT’s Plastics Use and Sustainability Breakthroughs
Best Paper award for OPHARDT research team
A team of scientists working on an innovative project was honoured at the 31st International Conference on Mixed Design of Integrated Circuits and...
Study about digital hand hygiene at Giessen and Marburg University Hospital
The Department of Hospital Hygiene at Marburg University Hospital is conducting a comprehensive study on digital hand hygiene together with OPHARDT...
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Scientists at the Amsterdam University Medical Center (UMC) investigated a behavioural approach to improve compliance. Right in the middle: the OPHARDT Hygiene Monitoring System. Hospital-acquired infections are an undesirable and increasingly...
It’s summer, it’s warm! Nothing seems to be further away than the annoying cold season endured over the autumn and winter. Yet the waiting rooms of pediatricians’ offices are still full. Why are the offices still full in the summer, and...
The training centre for hand hygiene was the ideal venue for the lecture “Hygiene in Biology”. Thorough hand hygiene is widely regarded as the simplest, most effective measure in preventing the spread of infection. As the threat of multi...
Is the rise of allergies in developed societies correlated to hygiene? That was the idea behind the now famous hygiene hypothesis posited by epidemiologist David Strachan in 1989. Strachan had noticed that in a survey of 17,000 British children...
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 food processors encounter raw foods and perishable ingredients that can easily spread...
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 some instances, these liquids are atomized through the integration of spray pumps in a...
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 respiratory diseases. We decided to take a closer look at how the flu impacts European and...
Touchless functions, signal colours and smart technologies are all components of an hand hygiene dispenser that will provide optimal medical hand hygiene in the long term.
Is dry time more important that consumer preferences? The rapidly growing popularity of foaming hand sanitizers complicates the question for whether healthcare facilities should replace their existing program with these new products. The...
Everyday life in many European prisons is often characterised by overcrowding, drug use and violence, often leading to a higher risk of communicable diseases. As a result of this increased risk, infection prevention is particularly important in...