It is important to wash your hands properly. Make sure that you wash both your hands
including the tips of your fingers, the palms of your hands and thumbs.
The steps below explain how to wash your hands properly:
• Wet hands under running water
• Apply enough soap to cover all surfaces of hand
• Rub hands palm to palm
• Right palm over back of left hand with interlaced fingers and vice versa
• Palm to palm with fingers interlaced
• Back of fingers to opposing palms with fingers interlocked
• Rotational rubbing of left thumb clasped in right palm and vice versa
• Rotational rubbing, backwards and forwards with clasped fingers of right hand in
left palm and vice versa
• Rinse hands with water
• Dry hands thoroughly with a single use towel
• Use towel to turn off tap
Hand Washing