Wash your hands properly
Block transmission routes with hand hygiene!Good hand hygiene, i.e. careful hand-washing and disinfection, is the most effective way to prevent the transmission of various diseases and thereby protect yourself and your loved ones. Unwashed hands always contain bacteria and viruses that are transferred from the hands to surfaces and from there to other hands. Good hand hygiene is achieved by taking good care of hands so that the skin, nails and nail folds are healthy and unable to collect bacteria and viruses.
Kiilto has long participated in preventing infections and developing
Hand hygiene is an important area of infection prevention in health care. Healthy hand skin is a vital part of staff hand hygiene.Hand-washing dries the skin of the hands, which is why the current recommendation in health care is to disinfect hands with hand sanitiser whenever possible instead of washing hands with water. According to research, health care employees spend less than 10 seconds washing their hands. In less than 10 seconds, the amount of microbes on the hands is reduced by no more than half, and at worst it might even increase. The current recommendation is to only wash hands
Protect your loved ones from infection
Whenever you come home, you should reserve the first minutes to hand hygiene: wash your hands to prevent bacteria and viruses from spreading into your home. Microbes are carried on the hands from work, day-care, school, public spaces and transport, etc.
Hygiene starts with healthy skin
In hand hygiene, it is important to consider skin health. Every wash reduces the natural protection of skin by drying it, and constant washing can cause skin to peel, especially for people with sensitive skin. Strong washing products upset the physiological
Minors’ hand hygiene is a major issue
Bacteria and viruses from hundreds or perhaps thousands of homes meet at schools and day-care centres. In these places that are prone to infection, special attention must be paid to hygiene and especially good hand hygiene. It is important that children wash their hands properly and regularly, and they need an adult to guide and assist them.
The most important thing is children’s health, but investment in hygiene can also reduce infections suffered by children’s family members. Thanks to it, parents are not forced to stay home from work due to
Good hygiene prevents the transmission of pathogens at the clinic, maintains high quality of operations and improves the general atmosphere.The hygiene of a veterinary clinic consists of hand hygiene, maintenance of medical equipment and instruments as well as the cleaning and disinfection of surfaces.
The hygiene procedure of the veterinary clinic must prevent the transmission of contagions:
· From animal to animal through instruments and medical supplies · From animal to medical staff · From staff to animal · From the environment to animal
Kiilto provides its customers
The textile washing episode of CleanClinic discusses how washing textiles for health care differs from domestic laundry, what factors influence a clean result and whether self-control of cleanness is possible, for example in regard to health care textiles.The speakers on the video include Kirsi Saukkonen, Docent of Infection Research and R&D Chemist Tomi Peltonen from Kiilto. Watch the video on YouTube.
CleanClinic is Kiilto’s online video series where experts of various fields discuss personal and environmental
Taking care of employees’ and customers’ health shows appreciationUp to 80% of flu and stomach flu infections spread through the hands. Personal hand hygiene and regular disinfecting cleaning of surfaces effectively stops the progress of infectious diseases. Hand skin care is also good hand hygiene because huge amounts of bacteria and viruses live on broken and peeling skin and areas of inflammation. Healthy skin is also more resistant to microbial attacks.
Employers can show their appreciation in small ways, such as by providing hand sanitiser for customers and employees and by paying
