Washing Hands with Soap and Water
Wash Your Hands!
Posters, fact sheets, and more about washing your hands with soap and water.
How it works:
- How It Works: Washing Hands with Soap and Water
Components to washing with soap and water, the proper technique, and how washing with soap and water works.
How to posters:
- Be A Germ-Buster... Wash Your Hands Poster (How-to Hand Washing)
This poster showing the six steps to cleaner hands could be hung in restrooms to reinforce proper hand washing technique.
- Handwashing with a Nail Brush
This poster showing the eight steps to washing hands using a nail brush could be hung in restrooms to reinforce proper hand washing technique.
Fact sheet:
- Make Hand Washing a Healthy Habit
Fact sheet about hand washing.
More:
- I’m a Fan of Handwashing Sign
This restroom sign was created from a fan handed out at the 2003 Minnesota State Fair.
- Wash Your Hands Posters
These simple posters remind people to wash their hands.
- Health in Your Hands Posters
These Minnesota's Health/Your Health is in your Hands Posters are for food workers.
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Wash Your Hands (in 24 languages)
This poster simply says wash your hands in twenty-four languages (English, Amharic, Arabic, Burmese, Chinese (Mandarin), French, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Hmong, Karen, Khmer, Korean, Laotian, Nepali, Oromo, Ojibwe, Russian, Somali, Spanish, Swahili, Thai, and Vietnamese).
“Hand Washing is the single most important means of preventing the spread of infection”
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Hand Hygiene Print Materials
Signs, posters, brochures, manuals, curricula, and other hand hygiene materials that you can print and use.
Clean Your Hands! Poster
This 11x17 poster shows the six steps for washing hands with soap and water or two for cleaning with alcohol-based hand sanitizers.
Note:If soap and water are not available, use hand sanitizer. Wash your hands with soap and water when your hands are visibly soiled.
Food handlers in restaurants, schools, delis and grocery stores must wash their hands with soap and water before applying hand sanitizers. [Minn Rules Chap. 4626.0070 - 4626.0085] See Hand Hygiene for Food Handlers for more information.
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