Recently, OPHARDT reached an important milestone with the granting of its 600th patent. It reflects a long-term commitment to research and...
600 Patents Granted – And More to Come
Hygiene Solutions for Schools: Suited to School Life
Modern hygiene solutions for schools are essential to strengthen the safety of everyone in the school environment. Well-functioning systems for hand...
Hand Hygiene on Cruise Ships: What a Recent Study Reveals
A recent scientific study examined how often passengers and crew on cruise ships wash or disinfect their hands – and whether current practices are...
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For more than 10 years, we’ve been celebrating World Hand Washing Day. October 15, is about creating awareness for hand hygiene in our everyday life and environment. Washing hands is still the simplest and most effective protection against...
It’s Wednesday evening. Half the week has flown by. The day was exhausting and no one wants to cook for themselves. Your partner suggests a visit to a familiar restaurant. You think of your go-to dishes, drinks, and the comforting atmosphere...
As we enter the age of data, intelligent dispenser systems are beginning to dip into the mainstream of hand hygiene “What you can’t measure, you can’t control,” is a well-known quote from Peter Drucker, an economist and...
We take a look at levels of noise in healthcare environments and the effect that this has on patients and staff
A recent survey reveals hygiene gaps in the cleaning of dispensers in hospitals, but good alternatives do exist. Thorough hand hygiene is essential for comprehensive patient safety, as people are increasingly paying attention to hygiene standards...
In Germany, 70,000 people die from septic syndrome every year – a condition which is brought about when the body is unable to effectively combat a systemic infection. On September 13, World Sepsis Day aims to raise awareness about the dangers...
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...