Having a hand sanitiser accessible is a decent choice and is important for an offices contamination control program. We know great hand cleanliness saves lives, right?! Sadly, what has been lost during the new COVID-19 pandemic are a portion of the fundamental standards of hand cleanliness. What’s more now the thing we are managing, is a totally different wellbeing plague called dermatitis with expanded microbe cross defilements due to unhygienic apportioning frameworks.
The following 3 steps will help you make the right hand sanitiser choice for your facility, school, shopping centre, workplace or public area.
Step 1. Choose Alcohol-Based or Zero-Alcohol Hand Sanitiser
In recent times alcohol-based hand sanitiser has been promoted as the gold standard. The truth is, there are alternatives.
In reasonableness to associations like the World Health Organization (WHO), they need to offer guidance that everybody can follow and suggest unrefined substances that are effectively accessible in many areas of the planet. This is particularly the situation in a crisis circumstance and inventory network issue.
There Are Many more people who are actually using Alcohol based Hand sanitizer.
Alcohol Based Hand Sanitizer Has alcohol as contain and Non alcohol does not have alcohol substances.
a. The pros and cons of alcohol-based hand sanitisers
Pros
– Trusted (even though many hand sanitisers do not contain the level of alcohol stated.)
– available.
– Most 70% alcohol hand sanitisers kill 99.9% of germs.
Cons
– Dangerous for children
– Skin irritation: Up to 80% of people experience irritation from hand sanitiser.
– Classed as dangerous goods and flammable.
– Unsafe to store.
– Limited shelf life.
– Difficulty scaling production up (or down) in the event of an emergency.
b. The pros and cons of zero-alcohol hand sanitisers
Pros
– Kid-friendly.
– Some (like XO2’s Zero range) kills 99.999% of germs.
– Some (like XO2’s Zero range) pass dermatological testing (alcohol-based hand sanitisers do not pass this test.)
– Some (like XO2’s Zero range) are Non-hazardous. No GHS irritant pictograms. No or little skin irritation or risk of danger to eyes (in the case of ingestion the outcomes are a lot less severe.)
– Not classed as dangerous goods for transport or storage in a workplace.
– Not flammable.
– Cheaper to transport.
– Longer shelf life.
– Better hand hygiene compliance due to higher acceptance and more frequent usage by users.
– Can be shipped in a concentrated form in the case of an emergency (eg. remote emergency hospitals.)
Cons
– Not widely available
Conclusion – What did you pick?
At XO2, we produce both liquor based and liquor free hand sanitisers. We accept there is an appropriate setting for both.
Our proposal is that assuming any youngsters will utilize the hand sanitiser, emphatically think about the zero liquor choice. Eye, skin and ingestion issues from youngsters utilizing liquor based hand sanitisers have essentially risen. A zero liquor hand sanitiser tackles those issues while as yet cleaning hands.
So in the event that you’re a school, kid care focus, retail outlet or office where youngsters clean their hands consider the liquor free hand sanitiser choices accessible.
Step 2. Choose A Manual-Push Or Touch-Free Dispenser (Or Go For A Wipe Dispenser)
The 4th pillar in XO2’s Hygiene & Disease Prevention Program is touchpoint elimination. This is all about removing, wherever possible, things that people touch. Touchpoints can include door handles, light switches and yes, push button washroom dispensers.
We remove touchpoints to create safer and more hygienic spaces by automation eg. automatic doors. XO2® recommends wherever possible to use a touch-free automatic hand sanitiser dispenser with a hygienically sealed refill pod for the highest standard of hygiene.
a. Touch-free dispensers for hand sanitiser (Recommended)
So what’s the good and bad of touch-free automatic hand sanitiser dispensers…
+ Touch-free hygiene. No germy button!
– Dispenser is more expensive.
– Batteries are required (XO2’s automatic dispenser batteries last up to 2 years or 55,000 uses.)
+ People love touch-free and are happy to use the dispenser more often.
– Not suitable in wet areas like showers and food manufacturing areas.
b. Manual-push button dispensers for hand sanitiser
And what’s the good and bad of manual push button hand sanitiser dispensers…
– High risk unhygienic touchpoint button (this button is often germier than a toilet seat.)
+ Dispenser is cheaper.
+ No batteries are required.
– Many people won’t sanitise their hands because they don’t want to touch the dispenser.
+ Suitable in wet areas like showers and food manufacturing where electronic automatic dispensers can’t be used.
“Yeah, but a manual push button dispenser is fine because I’m pushing the button before I sanitise my hands right?!
Very few people perfectly sanitise their hands. That’s why touching a germ and/or virus covered button that hundreds of other people have touched is not a good idea at any time.
You might be touching it before you sanitise your hands but the likelihood of you killing everything is low given the hygiene levels of these buttons are very poor given they are rarely disinfected correctly or ever.
In many instances, you are probably better off not touching the dispenser button at all and taking your chances with what is already on your hands.
c. Wipe dispenser for hand sanitiser
Here are some pros and cons of pre-moistened antibacterial hand sanitiser wipes dispensers…
+ Touch-free hygiene. No germy button!
+ Best with alcohol-free hand sanitiser (alcohol based wipes tend to dry out fast.)
+ Dispenser is cheaper.
+ No batteries are required.
+ Great user experience.
– Used wipes need to be disposed of.
+ Kid friendly: Brilliant for schools.
Before you choose a dispenser, also consider if you want it wall mounted, on a table-top or freestanding on a floor stand?
Conclusion
Go for contact free hand sanitiser distributors each time except if you really want a container in conditions like wet or open air regions. This may incorporate showers and food fabricating regions where programmed electronic allocators are not reasonable in light of the fact that they are not best for being hosed down, down-poured on or getting truly wet.