Stock up for World Hand Hygiene Day

Are the restrooms in your facility fully stocked with soap, paper towels, and other hand hygiene supplies? As one of its calls to actions for World Hand Hygiene Day, commemorated every May 5, the World Health Organization (WHO) is calling on facility managers to ensure hand hygiene supplies are available to building residents.

The slogan this year—seconds save lives—clean your hands—refers to how the simple action of washing your hands can help reduce the transmission of germs that cause serious illnesses. By making sure facilities are fully stocked, facility managers and custodians play an important role in enabling building residents to properly wash their hands.

The WHO specifically calls on building mangers and custodians of health care facilities to ensure hand hygiene supplies are available at every point of care, not just in restrooms. This means making sure sinks in patient rooms are clean and fully stocked and hand sanitizer dispensers outside patient rooms are regularly filled.

Find call to actions, posters, and other materials to promote World Hand Hygiene Day on the WHO website. Learn how smart technology can simplify stocking facility restrooms and assure dispensers don’t run out of soap or paper towels.