Objective: Have all employees demonstrate proper hand washing and glove

procedures throughout their time on the clock.

Key points:
1. When to wash hands
2. How to wash hands
3. When to change gloves

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III.

When to wash hands:

Start of your shift
After using the restroom
After blowing your nose, sneezing, or coughing
After touching garbage
After touching anything that can be a source of germs: hair, clothes, telephone,
money, soiled rags, equipment, etc.
Before returning to work after a break
After using chemicals/cleaners
After picking up items from the floor
Switching between tasks
o Raw food to ready to eat food
How to wash hands:
Wet your hands with clean, running warm water, apply soap
Lather your hands by rubbing them together with the soap. Be sure to lather the
backs of your hands, between your fingers, and under your nails.
Scrub your hands for at least 20 seconds.
Rinse your hands well under clean, running water.
Dry your hands using a paper towel or air dry them.
Using Gloves:
Put clean pair of gloves on after washing hands
Change gloves after touching anything that can be a source of germs, if they rip, or
changing tasks
If continued use change gloves every 4 hours
o Wash hands before putting a new pair of gloves on

Interesting Facts

2,516,640 germs on your cellphone

Your car steering wheel harbors 9x more germs than a public toilet seat
2 million germs on a door knob
E.coli and hepatis can be growing in your purse.
A mans wallet is an incubator for germs
o Germs from money
o Kept warm from body heat