Keep clean, cost effectively with these tips
Occupational hygienist assistant at Saioh (South Africa Institute of Occupational Hygiene), Nsovo Manganyi says that she loves to teach people about their health, safety at work, at school and at home.
POLOKWANE – Not only is she qualified in her line of work, but she is also a community developer and seeks to encourage and help build her community into a better one.
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Review spoke to the expert to find out how people can maintain and keep a good hygiene and she gave the following tips and advise:
She says that good hygiene practices, when properly adhered to can break the series of spreading infections or contaminants.
1. The practice of good hygiene at work:
– Every employer must provide good working practices and every employee must carefully adhere them, she says. For instance, provide workers with PPE’s (Personal protective equipment); which they must wear where ever it is recommended.
-Working environments must be designed with eating places separated from working places that are full of contaminants.
-Everyone must wash their hands with soaps or disinfectants after touching or using contaminated equipment.
2. Generally or at home, it is important to;
-Wash your hands before eating ,with running water and soap,
-Wash your food before cooking or eating. For example; washing your vegetables before cooking or your fruits before eating.
-Bath daily if not twice a day,
-Change clothes daily and whenever they are dirty,
-Wash your clothes with clean water and change your washing water or rinsing water in time to time.
-Use gloves and detergents when cleaning the toilets.
-Change every room cleaning water and don’t forget to use detergents.
-Wash your hands every time you come out from the toilet.
-Change hands wiping towels daily or use hands wiping papers; to eliminate reinfection.
-Most importantly, stop going to the toilets with cell phones; they are the highest point of reinfection. Some of us we do wash our hands properly, but we tend to forget that the hand we are using to eat is the same hand that just drop an infected cell phone.
-Lastly, use water less-hand sanitisers every-time you become in contact with germs.
“I hope you will use the above hygiene advises wisely to break the spread of contaminants,” she concluded.
