Hand disinfection
What is meant by hand disinfection?
Hand disinfection, that is disinfecting the hands, is an important part of hygiene in the private area as well as in production operations with high demands on personnel hygiene. Especially in the foodstuff industry, in (industrial) kitchens, butcheries and similar operations, in which foodstuffs are directly manually handled, simple Hand cleaning using water and soap is not sufficient. Additional disinfection using a suitable disinfectant (in operations of the foodstuff industry without added dyes or odorous substances) should in the process always take place following an intensive hand cleaning using soap and water and subsequent drying of at least 30 seconds.
Thereby, the following applies: Before starting a shift, as well as after every action that potentially pollutes the hands, the hands should be thoroughly cleaned, dried and then disinfected. Such actions comprise:
- STARTING WORK
- GOING TO THE TOILET
- BREAKS (CIGARETTE BREAKS, LUNCH BREAK ET CETERA)
- BLOWING ONE’S NOSE, SNEEZING OR COUGHING INTO THE HAND
- RESTARTING THE ACTIVITY WITH FOODSTUFFS AFTER CLEANING WORK
- AFTER TOUCHING POLLUTED OBJECTS OR FOODSTUFFS
Equipment for disinfection of hands are normally integrated in devices for hand cleaning (basins, soap dispensers, drying) or provided directly in their spatial vicinity. While doing so, the correct process is important: Disinfection of the hands is sensible and expedient only if it takes place after cleaning and Hand drying. As already mentioned above, the use of a disinfectants adjusted to the production conditions or the type of production operation must be ensured in addition. While they are not seldom dyed for medical facilities and mixed with fragrances, for example, this is not allowed for disinfectants which shall be used in the foodstuff industry and related areas in order to not contaminate foodstuffs handled by hand due to foreign substances.
During implementation of an HACCP concept (Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point), hand disinfection is as important as hand cleaning which normally directly precedes it. As with the latter, According to the “Good Manufacturing Practices” (GMP) and the “Good Hygiene Practices” (GHP), hand disinfection must also comply with the DIN standards DIN 105XX, which implement the European regulations in Germany.
Disinfectant dispenser
Disinfectant dispensers apply disinfectants to the hands, either manually or pre-set via sensors. We offer both simple dispensers with and without scale and sensor and appliances with nozzles. The disinfectant dispensers are available as wall-mounted version and can also be integrated in more complex hygiene concepts or used as a mobile unit on special racks.
Disinfection dispenser + turnstile
Disinfection dispenser machines with turnstile are a positively driven alternative to disinfectant dispensers, by means of which the personnel hygiene can be ensured. Only those who have correctly used the disinfection dispenser machine can pass the turnstile. This means that they are suitable for entry and exit areas of production premises.
Your contact persons
You have further questions about our hygiene technology, about hand cleaning or hand disinfection 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.
FIELDS OF APPLICATION FOR PRODUCTS FROM THE CATEGORY OF HAND DISINFECTION
Simple personnel sluice concept - hand disinfection machine with sensor alarm function for access in the direction of hygiene areas.
PLANNING AND IMPLEMENTATION OF DEVICES AND MEASURES FOR HAND DISINFECTION
Hand disinfection belongs to the basic facilities in hygiene concepts when it is sensible or necessary. Generally, it can be distinguished here between positively-driven and not positively-driven facilities for hand disinfection.
The former are suitable, above all, for large-scale businesses with a high number of staff and help avoid human careless mistakes. The often additionally required disinfection of hands, during the work processes, frequently represents the biggest challenge, because positively-driven measures are hard to implement in these cases.
Hand disinfection and hand cleaning facilities are often installed in close proximity to each other in order to spatially and timely pull together these two steps of hand hygiene. Thereby, the following always applies: first wash and dry your hands, then disinfect them. Here, too, guided or positively-driven systems with turnstiles can support these activities.
Installation and spatial arrangement of systems for hand disinfection are heavily dependent on the spatial conditions of production facilities as well as on the usual work steps and processes. Our professionally competent experts will be glad to advise you from planning a hygiene concept to the installation or replacement of individual facilities or elements.
Positively-driven toilet station with escape route concept - Hand disinfection by means of Desi-Control drop-arm (1) as well as single-wing gate with holding magnet locking (2)
PLEASE CONTACT US
Various factors have to be observed when planning and implementing products for hand disinfection and hand hygiene. Please contact us for more information.
PRODUCTS FOR HAND DISINFECTION FROM MOHN
Hand disinfection as an important part of every hygiene concept in areas such as the foodstuff industry is a focus of the Mohn GmbH as a specialist for hygiene technology and properly hygienically usable facilities, systems and accessories for production operations. In the process, the Mohn GmbH places a particular focus on operations of the foodstuff industry and their special needs. Especially in the particularly sensitive area of personnel hygiene, Mohn offers a wide selection of products which are specially tailored to the needs of production operations in the foodstuff industry with their particularly high hygiene requirements. Besides products from the area of hand disinfection, also products for hand cleaning as well as combined or combinable systems such as hygiene stations with or without forced guidance belong to it.
While doing so, the Mohn GmbH sets the goal of making a 100% implementation of legal hygiene regulations as easy as possible to their customers. For this goal, our competent specialists are glad to work in the run-up together with you in an advisory capacity and in addition, we also offer individual adjustments of many products in order to comply with the respectively unique preconditions of a production operation and to jointly find the best solutions for a specific hygiene concept.