Hygiene Awareness Week Tips Handwashing

Cincinnati - (BUSINESS WIRE) - According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), hand washing is the most effective way to prevent the spread of germs that cause infections and diseases. In honor of the awareness of National Handwashing Week (Dec. 6-12), Cintas Corporation (Nasdaq: CTAS) provides four handwashing tips for maintaining a healthy work environment and this cold season flu.

Awareness National Handwashing Week aims to "spread the word germs" by promoting the importance of hand washing to help promote good hand hygiene practices should note the following.:

1. Know when to wash While it is important to wash your hands regularly is more important to join hands for activities such as toileting, before, during and touching after preparing food, to wash an animal, blowing your nose. Cough; or sneezing. It may also be useful to wash their hands after contact with items such as door handles, frequently touched a switch. ¹
2. Do not allow soap. Wash your hands with soap and water is the best and most effective way to reduce the number of microbes and bacteria on the hands form. Studies show that you should rub their hands, including the areas between the toes and around the base of your hands with soap for at least 15-30 seconds to remove germs effectively. ²
3. Dry your hands completely. According to the Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research, hand drying is essential to protect against bacteria after hand washing and germs are more easily and transferred from wet hands. ³
4. Dry hands with paper towels. Studies of the Mayo Clinic (Minnesota) and the University of Westminster (London) shows that paper towels can raise air dryer to remove bacteria, unlike bacteria counts. Paper towels are also less likely to contaminate other washroom users also shown as air dryers spread bacteria from three to six feet of the unit. ⁴

Even if employees practice good hygiene, it is important to plan for additional facilities for cleaning and disinfecting during the winter months. Fight cold and flu season with suitable cleaning tools, cleaning chemicals and cleaning methods to keep the employees safe and healthy.

To complete a hand wash program, companies need to disinfect surfaces hardtop as door handles, elevator buttons, desk, keyboards and phones regularly. Since viruses and bacteria are estimated to remain on hard surfaces up to 18 hours, be sure to use a combination of detergents and disinfectants antimicrobial to eliminate and kill pathogens that develop in these areas. Also with mops and microfiber towels between different areas to kill bacteria and reduce cross-contamination.

Further information about solutions for facilities tapes, please visit http://www.cintas.com/facilityservices/.

For cleaning tips and daily updates management facilities, suivezcintasclean.

About Cintas Corporation:

Headquartered in Cincinnati, Cintas Corporation provides highly specialized services to businesses of all kinds, especially in North America. Cintas designs, manufactures and implements corporate uniform programs, and provides entrance mats, toiletries and cleaning, tile and carpet cleaning, promotional products, first aid, safety, fire protection products and services. Cintas is a publicly traded company on the NASDAQ Global Select Market under the symbol CTAS are listed, and is part of the Standard & Poor's 500 index.

¹ http://www.cdc.gov/handwashing/when-how-handwashing.html

² http://www.cdc.gov/handwashing/when-how-handwashing.html

³ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3538484/

⁴ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3538484/

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