World Hand Hygiene Day 2024: promoting user hygiene with taps from SCHELL

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A save-the-date for 5 May 2024, when we again mark World Hand Hygiene Day, which was launched in 2009 by the WHO. This annual campaign has the tagline: ‘SAVE LIVES – Clean Your Hands’. Contactless electronic taps, like those offered by SCHELL, can help to improve user hand hygiene. These taps are operated by infrared sensors and therefore do not need to be touched by the hands when they are clean – making them a good choice for achieving quick wins in relation to good hand hygiene. In addition, contactless taps can cut water usage by up to 70 percent when compared with traditional, single-lever taps.

Contactless electronic taps and washing hands ‘the right way’

Good hand hygiene is enormously important. Even in our day-to-day lives, everyone can protect themselves against infection by washing their hands properly. Handwashing with soap and water reduces bacterial and viral counts on hands by up to 99.9 percent. But there’s a right and a wrong way to do it. Soaping-up should take at least 20 seconds, and attention should be paid to the spaces between the fingers, the thumb and the backs of the hands. And mistakes can also be made even once hands are clean: if a – potentially contaminated – tap needs to be touched to shut off the flow of water, this can cancel out the positive effects of handwashing. Contactless, electronic wash basin taps minimise the risk of contact infections. This can also be seen in our video:

Operators can accelerate their achievements in hand hygiene

Many types of buildings – and especially (semi-)public and commercial premises like hospitals, airports, fitness centres and hotels – are used by a very diverse group of individuals. Based on this fact, the operators of these buildings can work to get faster results in their efforts to prevent the transmission of disease by deciding to install contactless electronic fittings. SCHELL’s portfolio has the right product for any application. The contactless, electronic fittings offer optimum user comfort while also helping building operators maintain drinking water hygiene, thanks to their option for automatic stagnation flushes. Go here to find out more.

SCHELL case studies: hand hygiene in healthcare facilities

SCHELL fittings are also an ideal choice for use in healthcare facilities like hospitals and doctor’s practices. Contactless, electronic fittings can help improve user hygiene for both patients and visitors, while fittings from the VITUS series, for example, offer ergonomic clinic arm lever that perfectly meet the needs of medical practitioners. Please see our case studies for more information about the successful use of SCHELL fittings in healthcare facilities.

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Charité Berlin

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Gutshaus Wien

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Klinikum Schwarzenberg

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Zahnarzt Praxis Sterndent

Charité Berlin

Gutshaus Wien

Klinikum Schwarzenberg

Zahnarzt Praxis Sterndent

Summary

World Hand Hygiene Day 2024 again offers us an annual reminder of the importance of handwashing. Thanks to their hands-free mode of operation, contactless electronic fittings can make an important contribution to promoting good user hygiene. For operators of (semi-)public and commercial buildings, World Hand Hygiene Day 2024 can offer an incentive to switching over to contactless, electronic fittings from SCHELL, so as to achieve success in user hand hygiene. Have questions about our taps and fittings? Our SCHELL Service team will be happy to help out. Please get in touch!