Eight steps process to effectively sanitize hands
Personnel Hygiene is one of the essential elements in the pharmaceutical industry to prevent contamination that can affect the quality of drug products.
Every pharmaceutical company must adhere to strict hygiene practices to ensure high-quality medicine are manufactured and packaged in a contamination-free environment.
One of the primary sources of contamination is human beings. Having a state-of-the-art manufacturing facility or stringent Quality Assurance measures is not enough to ensure superior hygiene in the pharmaceutical industry unless trained personnel are responsible for providing high sanitation and product quality standards.
Hand hygiene is one of the essential elements of infection control. Hand sanitization aims to remove transient micro-organisms acquired during the work from the surface of the hands. Good hand hygiene protects both facility and drug products.
The hand is the most potential factor for the contamination because whatever activity is done by human most used body part is hand. The hand can transfer the contamination from one place to the other.
An effective hand sanitization process will help prevent microbial contamination in the facility and the drug product.
Following is the eight steps process to effectively sanitize hands. By using this technique, all parts of the hand can be effectively sanitized.
1. Apply enough disinfectant to cover all hand surfaces;
2. Rub hands palm to palm;
3. Right palm over left with interlaced fingers and vice versa;
4. Palm to palm with fingers interlaced;
5. Backs of fingers to opposing palms with fingers interlocked;
6. Rotational rubbing of left thumb clasped in right palm and vice versa;
7. Rotational rubbing, backwards and forwards with clasped fingers of right hand in left palm and vice versa;
8. Your hands are now safe
Reference: WHO
