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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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...
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 already in front of our noses. Ominous European infection data published in the Lancet at...
Ground breaking cross-border project studies how children can be motivated to wash hands thoroughly As children, we spend time learning, developing and internalizing many behaviours that are critical to our adult lives. Why shouldn’t this also be...
When dealing with hygiene in public washrooms, there are several components that combine to create a hygenic experience. We recently reviewed an article “Focus on hand drying – paper drying vs. hand dryer” to get a better...
OPHARDT Hygiene Monitoring System® part of a comprehensive study. Antibiotic resistance is an increasing global concern and as a result hand hygiene plays an important role for patient protection within medical facilities. However, numerous studies...