The Massachusetts Office of Health and Human Services provides a free, downloadable poster to encourage proper hand hygiene. The poster, titled “‘Your health is in your clean hands,” reminds staff ...

The WHO offers a poster detailing hand sanitizing protocol with alcohol-based sanitizer, complete with diagrams. Download How to Hand Rub poster. 6. “Keep Calm and Wash Your Hands” Poster.

March 22, 2010 (Atlanta, Georgia) — Rates of surgical site infection after the use of plain soap and water or an alcohol-based rub for surgical hand preparation were comparable (about 8%) in a ...

Finally, a sanitizer's efficacy depends on the amount of alcohol it contains. The CDC doesn't recommend using hand-rub products in which the active agent is less than 60% ethanol or 70% ...

“Leafree Hand Sanitizer is an alcohol-based hand rub to be applied externally to reduce bacteria on the skin when soap and water are not available,” according to an announcement with the FDA.

A: “Hand hygiene” refers to a general term that applies to handwashing, antiseptic handwash, and alcohol-based hand rub (ABHR), according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ...

Background: The introduction of alcohol-based hand rub dispensers has had a positive influence on compliance of healthcare workers with the recommended guidelines for hand hygiene. However ...

To make your own hand sanitizer, you only need two ingredients: Aloe vera gel, and 91 percent or 99 percent isopropyl alcohol (also called rubbing alcohol).

Healthcare worker compliance with the World Health Organization’s six steps of using hand rub to completely cover hands pales in comparison to their compliance with WHO’s Five Moments for Hand ...

Tests showed she was nine times over the legal UK driving limit for alcohol and the concentration in her blood was potentially fatal. The researchers said: "In our experience, the more serious effects ...