How to wash your hands

Minusorange · 4 Mar 2020 at 17:10

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/health-51736288/how-to-wash-your-hands-30-second-guide

Is it just me or do you not think it's embarrassing that the BBC has to offer a guide on how to keep your hands clean ? I know people are generally stupid, but not being able to wash their hands properly ? I guess most fail at turning the tap off ?

something daft already!! · 4 Mar 2020 at 17:12

There are posters everywhere in my work place, which is lucky as before I saw them, I never realised I had to wash at all.

Liquid_Entity · 4 Mar 2020 at 17:15

At least we can eat the nuts at the bar now knowing everyone will wash their hands now.

FoxEye · 4 Mar 2020 at 17:15

Minusorange said:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/health-51736288/how-to-wash-your-hands-30-second-guide

Is it just me or do you not think it's embarrassing that the BBC has to offer a guide on how to keep your hands clean ? I know people are generally stupid, but not being able to wash their hands properly ? I guess most fail at turning the tap off ?

The video doesn't say *not* to wash your hands in the toilet basin, so I'm just going to carry on doing that.

Pawnless Endgame · 4 Mar 2020 at 17:16

This is the 1996 BSE scare all over again, just on a global scale. It will blow over soon.

The flu kills more people every year and the strain changes.

dowie · 4 Mar 2020 at 17:18

Most people won't wash them for the at least 20 seconds recommended so putting some emphasis on hot water and washing for prolonged time is good - it's generally a good thing to promote a bit of caution etc.. with this - anything along these lines that might help contain and or slow the spread is a good thing to promote tbh...

Narj · 4 Mar 2020 at 17:19

A large proportion of the population are filthy animals that don't cover their mouths and noses when coughing or sneezing. If they do, they won't wash their hands after.

Add to that the scuzzers that don't wash their hands at all after going to the toilet.

If anything good comes out of this, hopefully it's better hygiene habits as a whole.

It's a bit annoying that the Government aren't really pushing the "don't cough over everyone, you scumbags!" angle too.

ttaskmaster · 4 Mar 2020 at 17:37

Minusorange said:
Is it just me or do you not think it's embarrassing that the BBC has to offer a guide on how to keep your hands clean ?

Just you, I think.
I've probably been shown three completely different 'Official' methods of washing hands by Infection Control nurses, each one superseding the last as revised and approved... This BBC one looks like a truncated version of the last one I learned.

Conscript · 4 Mar 2020 at 17:42

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adam cool dude · 4 Mar 2020 at 17:45

But it doesn't show me how to use the three sea shells god dam it.

SexyGreyFox · 4 Mar 2020 at 17:56

Minusorange said:
Is it just me or do you not think it's embarrassing that the BBC has to offer a guide on how to keep your hands clean ? I know people are generally stupid, but not being able to wash their hands properly ? I guess most fail at turning the tap off ?

No not at all.
When I started at the hospital 12 years ago one of my jobs was to give hand washing lessons to Clinicians and even some of them couldn't do it correctly.
So I'd start off by getting them to put a liquid on their hands and rubbing it in up to the wrists and then showed them under infra red what it looked like.
Then they wash until they are happy they are clean and then their hands go under the infra red again where they see they haven't done it correctly.

So once again I reckon 99.9% of people have no idea how to wash their hands properly.

This is the method I taught but there now might be revisions -

Deleted member 77746 · 4 Mar 2020 at 17:57

Conscript said:
Instructions unclear. Penis stuck. Send help.

moon man · 4 Mar 2020 at 17:58

when i worked in food production we would see QA walking in and tended to have an extra hand wash ,even then a lot failed the hand swab ,its quite easy to fail at hand washing

caff · 4 Mar 2020 at 17:59

Minusorange said:
I know people are generally stupid, but not being able to wash their hands properly?

Have you ever been to a Wetherspoons?

TheSwede · 4 Mar 2020 at 18:02

SexyGreyFox said:
No not at all.
When I started at the hospital 12 years ago one of my jobs was to give hand washing lessons to Clinicians and even some of them couldn't do it correctly.
So I'd start off by getting them to put a liquid on their hands and rubbing it in up to the wrists and then showed them under infra red what it looked like.
Then they wash until they are happy they are clean and then their hands go under the infra red again where they see they haven't done it correctly.

So once again I reckon 99.9% of people have no idea how to wash their hands properly.

This is the method I taught but there now might be revisions -

So would you say that the BBC clip was a proper one ?

Edit: Whops, that clip wasn't there when I quoted you !

Gray2233 · 4 Mar 2020 at 18:03

I put a complaint in a few years back about a guy that worked for the same company as me, he'd take a plap and just walk out of the toilets without washing his hands, caught him doing it a few times. We were in different departments, but the worst of it was, he worked in a call centre environment where people just jumped on whatever computer was available to them. So he was running around the place rubbing his unwashed fingers all over keyboards people never bothered to clean to begin with. He wasn't even the worst, there was a 'phantom-*******' that was never caught, all we knew was that it had to be a woman as it only ever happened in the female toilets and the buildings security cameras never spotted any men going in or out of them. Whoever it was would take a plap, fish it out of the toilet, then write all over the mirrors and walls with it.

People can be utterly disgusting pigs tbh.

I left the place after less than a year and it was in part due to low hygiene standards.

Deleted member 77746 · 4 Mar 2020 at 18:05

@Gray2233

That is utter disgusting. Absolute pigs.

TheSwede said:
So would you say that the BBC clip was a proper one ?

Edit: Whops, that clip wasn't there when I quoted you !

He give himself a thumb job in that clip. He also touched the top of the soap bottle before washing his hands.

SexyGreyFox · 4 Mar 2020 at 18:08

TheSwede said:
So would you say that the BBC clip was a proper one ?

Edit: Whops, that clip wasn't there when I quoted you !

I haven't seen the BBC one, I was just replying to the OP.
I'll have a look.

No that was a bit quick.

This is part of an Aseptic Technique video that I made in 2010 that won a Nursing Times award - http://www.dmpoole.co.uk/pics/4HandDecontamination.mp4

Grimley · 4 Mar 2020 at 18:11

adam cool dude said:
But it doesn't show me how to use the three sea shells god dam it.

Just ask Sylvester Stallone - When he comes out of his deep freeze prison sentance in 12 years time.

ttaskmaster · 4 Mar 2020 at 18:23

Gray2233 said:
He wasn't even the worst, there was a 'phantom-*******' that was never caught, all we knew was that it had to be a woman as it only ever happened in the female toilets and the buildings security cameras never spotted any men going in or out of them. Whoever it was would take a plap, fish it out of the toilet, then write all over the mirrors and walls with it.
People can be utterly disgusting pigs tbh.

And yet, there was a guy on Eurotrash ages back, who made a fortune painting with his turds and then selling it as art....!!