When to wash your hands
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)