Hand Hygiene 620-01-95-40

(NEW 2/24/14 ML #3402)

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Staff members and children shall wash their hands, according to recommendations by the federal centers for disease control and prevention, before preparing or serving meals, after diapering, after using toilet facilities, and after any other procedure that may involve contact with bodily fluids. Hand soap and sanitary hand-drying equipment, individually designated cloth towels, or paper towels must be available at each sink.

 

For children older than 24 months and adults, closely supervised alcohol-based hand sanitizers are an acceptable alternative to hand washing with soap and water if there is no visible soil and soap-and-water washing is not practical. The following situations are provided as examples when soap-and-water hand washing is not practical:

• The provider and children eat a picnic lunch at a park, and no sink is available.
• The provider would need to leave a room unsupervised to wash hands after wiping a child’s nose or after picking up a toy that had been in a child’s mouth.