How to Wash Your Hands

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How to Wash Your Hands

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Step 1

• Use water and soap
• Regular soap is ok antibacterial soap is not
  necessary

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Step 2

• Scrub hands for 10 15 seconds
• (sing Happy Birthday to You)
• Wash all surfaces thoroughly, including wrists,
  palms, back of hands, fingers, and under the
  fingernails.
• Rinse with water

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Step 3

• Dry hands thoroughly

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When should you wash your hands?

• Wash your hands
• When you remove your gloves
• Before you leave the lab
• Immediately after any obvious contamination
• Before you eat

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Some Handwashing Facts

• 9 out of 10 adults say they wash their hands
  after using public restrooms, but only 6 in 10
  were observed doing so.
• Women wash their hands more often than men.
• Americans with college degrees say they wash
  their hands less than those without college
  degrees.
• From survey conducted by the American Society for
  Microbiology, 1996