Hand cleaning
Hand cleaning & hand hygiene
What is meant by hand cleaning?
Hands cleaning or hand cleaning, if you like to use the singular form, generally comprise the cleaning of hands using water and soap. Hand cleaning thus represents the first of two steps of hand hygiene. The second step, usually after hand cleaning and hand drying have taken place, to be carried out is hand disinfection, hence the disinfection of hands using a disinfectant which is appropriate for the respective requirements.
Hand cleaning in quite different areas is an essential component of hygiene rules. This ranges from everyday hand washing in private areas to hygiene in the kitchen (professional or private) to the implementation of hygiene regulations of an HACCP concept (Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point) in operations of the foodstuff industry, the pharmaceutical industry, the cosmetics industry or in other hygienically demanding production environments according to the respectively valid EU regulations and rules.
Implementation of an HACCP concept on the operations side is necessary, above all, because the legislators have entirely shifted the responsibility for perfect hygiene to the side of production operations. According to the “Good Manufacturing Practices” (GMP) and the “Good Hygiene Practices” (GHP), these hygiene measures must comply with the DIN standards DIN 105XX, which can apply as the general basis of the European regulations, and must be developed, implemented and controlled on the side of operations. In the process, hand cleaning is of course only one part of a big concept, but due to the high susceptibility of these systems, especially through human errors, it is definitely a particularly important one at the same time.
Systems, devices and facilities for hand cleaning are integral parts of each concept for personal hygiene and, apart from high functionality, they must be able to be cleaned well, quickly and simply without leaving any residues, which is why we from Mohn with products from this category, including accessories such as mirrors or paper baskets, count on materials, above all, made of stainless steel, with their good cleaning characteristics.
Hand wash basin
Hand wash basins are offered in various versions, that is with or without rear wall as well as wall-mounted or standing. In addition, you can choose between different forms of operation (sensor, knee et cetera) and features (e.g. with integrated soap dispensers or as hygiene station with or without turnstile). Suitable base cabinets ensure additional storage space.
Multiple hand wash basin
Unlike hand wash basins, multiple hand washing basins are generally designed for simultaneous hand cleaning of several persons and are available in at least 2 washbasin depths. Mohn’s multiple hand washing basins are offered both ins wall-mounted design and with foot frames and base cabinets (optionally available) and with different operating functions (sensor, knee et cetera) with washbasins for 2-5 persons.
Stainless steel mirror
Although Mohn’s stainless steel mirrors, available in different measurements for assembly above hand wash basins or multiple hand washing basins, are not a necessary product for hand cleaning, they allow optical control of the proper fit of disposable clothing such as hairnets, however. Being mirror-polished and break-proof, stainless steel mirrors are the reasonable mirror version for production operations.
Soap dispenser
For each hand cleaning, there must also be used the suitable soap solution. Soap dispensers, manual, with a scale or automatic with sensor operation, for assembly on the wall next to or above hand wash basins or multiple hand washing basins, are therefore sensible additions for all hand cleaning devices without integrated soap dispenser solutions. We also offer various 2-hand models.
Soap dispenser + turnstile
Soap dispensers with turnstile are available as wall-mounted or standing appliances. Outfeed of the soap solution or disinfectant (depending on the filling) can be pre-set in terms of quantity. Advantage of the forcibly guided soap dispensers: the turnstile can be passed through only after soap or disinfectant has been applied.
Waste paper baskets
Just as mirrors, paper baskets are also products which are indirectly connected to hand cleaning. In the process, they serve for professional disposal of cloths or fabrics used for hand drying. Mohn offers two types of paper baskets with different capacities: in wire-mesh design (40 to 100 litres) and stainless steel sheet (40 to 100 litres).
Hygiene walls
Hygiene walls, standing or wall-mounted, can combine different, necessary personal hygiene appliances. This can comprises hand cleaning together with subsequent hand disinfection (with 2 separate dispensers) or also combined with sole and/or boot cleaning. Apart from differently equipped hygiene walls, they can also be configured by users themselves.
Hygiene station without turnstile
Hygiene stations without turnstile are not forcibly-guided stations on which different steps of personal hygiene can be carried out. Mohn’s hygiene stations without turnstile thereby range the simple hand cleaning with drying to hand and sole cleaning (including disinfection) with manual or automatic hand drying.
Hygiene station with turnstile
A hygiene station with turnstile belongs to the forcibly-guided personal hygiene installations. So the turnstile unlocks only when individual sections of the intended cleaning operations have been carried out. In this subcategory, Mohn offers three hygiene station models for hand cleaning and disinfection without boot or sole cleaning.
Your contact persons
You have further questions about our products from the area of hand cleaning, personal hygiene or about the topic of hygiene technology and wish to have personal expert advice? By telephone or also on site with pleasure. Our experienced specialist advisers will find the optimum solution for you.
PERSONAL HYGIENE AS A COMPONENT IN THE HACCP CONCEPT
Personal hygiene, especially hand cleaning and hand disinfection, is a critical component of hygiene in the foodstuff industry and an important tool in the HACCP concept. Personal hygiene includes all personal measures of an employee for cleaning their bodies and clothes.
> Constant compliance with personal hygiene is indispensable for safe health protection <
Insufficient personal hygiene can lead to the spread of disease. Constant compliance with personal hygiene is therefore indispensable for safe health protection. However, hands cannot only transmit diseases, but they are also endangered in case of heavy strain. Stressed skin must therefore be particularly cared for. That is why hand protection and also as gentle as possible hand cleaning belong indirectly to hand hygiene or hand disinfection.
Legal requirements of personal hygiene
With personal hygiene in particular, there are legal requirements which are of utmost importance especially in hygiene-sensitive industries. The basics are regulated in the Infection Protection Act. In special foodstuff hygiene training, these basics are taught to all employees who get in touch with foodstuffs. Persons who produce, treat and market meat and meat products must additionally have a valid health certificate or a certificate pursuant to §43 German Infection Protection Act.
Personal hygiene comprises the following measures:
- thorough hand washing to remove soiling, and subsequent disinfection prior to starting work, as well as after every toilet visit
- operating only with clean working clothes
- dispensing with jewellery (e.g. fake nails) and wristwatch
- observing body hygiene
- complete cover of possibly existing wounds
- wearing headgear
- wearing slip-resistant shoes
- regular training about foodstuff hygiene
FIELDS OF APPLICATION FOR PRODUCTS OF HAND HYGIENE
PLANNING AND IMPLEMENTATION OF HAND CLEANING PRODUCTS
Hand cleaning products for personal hygiene - for each industry
Hand cleaning systems of all sorts belong to the basic equipment for any production operation. They are particularly important in all businesses, in which high demands have to be placed on personal hygiene due to legal regulations. Depending on the operating mode, a forcibly-guided or not forcibly-guided hand cleaning system can be sufficient when entering and leaving the production area, whilst other operations, in turn, require additional opportunities for hand cleaning in the production area.
Production processes and spatial conditions are decisive
Decisive for the planning and implementation of an installation or change of the existing systems for hand cleaning are the production processes as well as the spatial conditions – that means space must be available and hand cleaning should be made possible in the vicinity of the place where soiling will probably increasingly occur.
Diverse fields of application
Depending on the field of application – from the foodstuff industry to industrial kitchens to cosmetics production – the requirements and sensible positioning of systems for hand cleaning can be highly variable. That is why our competent specialists like to be at your disposal to provide advice to you – regardless of whether it is about the planning, implementation or replacement of individual products from the category of hand cleaning.
PLEASE CONTACT US
Various factors have to be observed when planning and realising products for hand hygiene. Please contact us for more information.
PRODUCTS FOR HAND CLEANING FROM MOHN
Due to the decade-long experience as a manufacturer of hygiene technology and hygienically easy-to-handle products from most various categories for the foodstuff industry and other production operations with high hygienic requirements, the Mohn GmbH is a real specialist for everything which concerns hygiene. This, of course, also applies to the sensitive topic of personal hygiene and to one of its basics: hand cleaning. From the basin to the hygiene wall, with or without integrated disinfection possibility, with or without sole cleaning – Mohn offers a really extensive spectrum of most various products for hand cleaning in order to make 100% implementation of legal hygiene requirements possible for you and your operation. In the process, we also like to accommodate individual wishes and needs and look for the optimal solution together with our customers – also with individually designed products.