International Scientific Forum on Home Hygiene

Home Hygiene & Health

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International Scientific Forum on Home Hygiene

Home Hygiene & Health

The Leading Source of Scientific, Professional & Consumer Information

The psychology of hand washing. Behaviours to keep yourself, your family and your community safe. Help us all to keep our hands clean.

This short learning resource gives clear and simple guidance on when, where and how to wash  your hands. We are told to wash our hands frequently, but what does that actually mean? This resopurce  piece tells you about the key moments when we need to clean our hands. Getting these times right is important to protect you and your community.   The “Moments” for hand hygiene can be grouped as  "home moments, public moments and personal moments". This resource explores these moments in more detail.

This resource has been produced by the British Psychological Society Behavioural Science and Disease Transmission Task Force.

The resource can be foiund at: https://indd.adobe.com/view/987c8af9-66df-4360-9f80-6f4d85d1392c