When to wash your hands - hand wash advice

Wash your hands before you…

Prepare or eat food
Treat a cut or a wound
Visit a hospital ward (remember alcohol-based hand wash is also provided)

Wash your hands after you…

Use the bathroom
Handle uncooked foods, particularly raw meat, poultry or fish
Blow your nose, cough or sneeze
Touch animals or animal waste
Take out the/handle rubbish
Change a nappy
Work/play in the garden
Touch a sick or injured person
Visit a hospital ward (remember alcohol-based hand rubs are also provided)