Download Hand Washing - Renton School District

• Entry task question:
• Why is hand washing so important when
preparing food? What could result in not washing
your hands before preparing foods?
• Target
• Today you will demonstrate the proper way to
wash your hands
• Why is it important?
• Hand washing is important because it washes
away all bacteria and germs before you start
to prepare food.
• Even if your hands look clean, they are in fact
very dirty.
• A 2006 American Society of Microbiology
study revealed that only 75 percent of women
and 50 percent of men wash their hands after
using the toilet.
• What do you think about middle and high
school students?
• Only 33 percent of middle and high school
females wash, and only 8 percent of males.
• Hand washing
• It is estimated that washing hands with soap and water could reduce
diarrheal disease-associated deaths by up to 50% 1.
• Researchers in London estimate that if everyone routinely washed
their hands, a million deaths a year could be prevented 2.
• A large percentage of foodborne disease outbreaks are spread by
contaminated hands. Appropriate hand washing practices can reduce
the risk of foodborne illness and other infections 3.
• Hand washing can reduce the risk of respiratory infections by 16% 4.
• The use of an alcohol gel hand sanitizer in the classroom provided an
overall reduction in absenteeism due to infection by 19.8% among 16
elementary schools and 6,000 students 5.
• Research from the CDC
• Flu viruses capable of being transferred to hands and causing
an infection can survive on hard surfaces for 24 hours.
Infectious flu viruses can survive on tissues for only 15 minutes.
Like cold viruses, infectious flu viruses survive for much shorter
periods on the hands.
• The steps necessary for proper hand washing
procedures are as follows:
•1. Wet hands and forearms with hot water.
Apply enough soap to build up a good
lather.
•2. Thoroughly scrub any exposed surfaces
with soap and water. This includes
underneath your finger nails!!!
•3. Rub hands and arms for at least 20
seconds
-Happy
Birthday song twice
-The ABCs
4. Rinse off soap thoroughly under running hot water.
5. Turn off the water faucet using a paper towel
6. Dry hands and arms using a separate paper towel.
• When you are preparing food for an extended
period of time you should wash your hands
every two hours to help prevent cross
contamination.
• According to the “British Medical Journal” you
should wash hands at least 10 times daily is
necessary to prevent disease.
• How often do you?
• You should always wash your hands in these situations:
• Before starting work
• After any work breaks, including those to eat, drink
or chew gum
• Before and after handling raw foods such as meat,
fish and poultry
• After touching hair, face or body
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After sneezing, coughing, or using tissue
After using the restroom
After using any cleaning or sanitizing product
After taking out the garbage
• After cleaning dirty dishes and tables.
• After touching anything else that might contaminate
food, such as a phone, money, door handles, or soiled
table linens.
• While hand sanitizers are widely available, never use
in place of hand washing.
• If you have a cut on your hand:
•Wash out your cut
•Put a band aid or bandage it up.
•Wear a glove over the band aid.
• Washing hands with soap and water is the best way to
reduce the number of germs on them.
• If soap and water are not available, use an alcoholbased hand sanitizer that contains at least 60%
alcohol.
• Alcohol-based hand sanitizers can quickly reduce the
number of germs on hands in some situations, but
sanitizers do not eliminate all types of germs.
• Hand sanitizers are not effective when hands are
visibly dirty.