If we all practiced vigilant hand hygiene and cross contamination awareness we would eliminate many preventable respiratory and food borne infectious disease. Help your employees “stay well” with these activities.

• Celebrate Clean Hands Week in your organization Launch your own campaign with incentives and competing teams.
• Test your hand washing skills – have participants check how well they have washed their hands using “glow in the dark” powders and solutions, available from from local infection control providers. Or have them put on gloves and then wash with coloured finger-paint, to see where they have missed.
• Hands that Care – take photographs of the hands and faces of various prominent individuals in your facility, then paste them onto a poster. Have people try to match the hands with the faces, with a prize to the winner.