The poster reminds staff members of why respiratory hygiene is important and provides basic guidelines concerning covering the nose and mouth when sneezing, the use of surgical masks and the need to ...

Tuesday, Oct. 15 is Global Handwashing Day. Hand washing, while essential to infection control and prevention, suffers from perennially low compliance rates, sometimes as low as 40 percent in ...

Patient safety tool: 7 hand hygiene posters for healthcare facilities Alsco Group — an Australia-based supplier of workwear, linen, safety and cleanliness office products — has published seven ...

A hand hygiene poster increased the likelihood men would wash their hands, according to a study in Human Communication Research. Researchers studied the hand washing behavior of 252 men aged 18 to 62 ...

WITH bacteria and viruses from hundreds of homes meeting at creches, schools, and day-care centres every day, the HSE’s Health Protection Surveillance Centre (HPSC) has developed eye-catching new ...