This year’s Global Handwashing Day took place on 15 October 2018 and provided a creative platform to encourage people to wash their hands with soap at critical times.
As part of the campaign, BHTA’s Decontamination and Infection Prevention section launched its latest publication to provide good practice when washing hands.
Global Handwashing Day is a global advocacy day dedicated to increasing awareness and understanding about the importance of handwashing with soap as an effective and affordable way to prevent diseases and save lives. BHTA’s publication was launched in conjunction with this year’s theme - the links between handwashing and food – including food hygiene and nutrition. The tagline, Clean hands – a recipe for health, is designed to remind the public to make handwashing a part of every meal.
In support of areas of concern and talked about most recently in the press the BHTA Decontamination and Infection Prevention Members, industry experts have also released these an additional document, Decontamination of Medical Devices – How clean is clean? The aims of decontamination are to make reusable devices safe to be handled or used by:
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