Wash hands: beat germs

Form good habits around the World Health Organisation's "Clean Care is Safer Care" hand washing technique. Hand Wash: Reminder demonstrates the method.

Improving hand hygiene practices is the "single most important measure" in the prevention in transmission of bacteria and infections according to the World Health Organization (WHO). A simple action, perhaps, but the lack of compliance worldwide is problematic in the spread of infection and disease.

It is particularly important to wash your hands:
- when you get to work or arrive home
- after you blow your nose, cough or sneeze
- before you eat or handle food

Unfortunately though, any habit formation is difficult. Hand Wash makes it easier by:

- Demonstrating and timing the WHO approved Clean Care is Safer Care procedure