Information from Dyson on Hand Hygiene on Hand Washing Day

We may have always known how important hand hygiene is for health, but the pandemic we have been through in the past few years has taught us this better. We have learned a lot of information from scratch, such as how often and for how long we should wash our hands. However, as we said, hand hygiene has always been very important, even The United Nations Children’s Fund has designated October 15 every year as “World Handwashing Day”.

A bulletin shared by Dyson on this day, which is celebrated to teach correct hand washing methods, touches on a completely different dimension of the issue; hand drying.

“Wet hands collect more bacteria than dry hands.”

Studies show that moist hands are healthier than dry hands. Can carry up to 1000 times more bacteriaWiping hands on clothes can transmit bacteria to washed hands if the clothes are not clean.

Dyson pointed out that the issue does not end with just washing hands and explained the situation with a simple example; Imagine having one hand wet and one hand dry, you put both hands into a box of glitter, then what happens? While your wet hand is covered in glitter, your dry hand collects much less glitter. At work wet hand – dry hand and bacteria collection relationship It looks exactly like this.

Well, we dry our hands, so why should we leave them wet?

This is where the problem begins. Maybe you already dry your hands with a clean towel at home. Even here, damp towels that are not changed frequently produce bacteria, but let’s skip this part. Let’s say you are in a shopping mall and you wash your hands in the toilet. When you are looking for something to dry yourself with, you now have a large number of drying machines You will see that it is. Or maybe a paper towel machine.

But unfortunately, these dryers are not that innocent. Dryers that are unfiltered and blow dirty air directly from the toilet, and paper towel machines that usually operate with physical buttons, make things much worse. Performed by Dyson According to the Global Hygiene Survey In Turkey, users are hesitant to use traditional hand dryers that emit dirty air. Instead of traditional technologies, participants prefer state-of-the-art devices that provide contactless hand drying and have a clean air filter.

There is also a problem with traditional dryers for paper towels. There is an environmental dimension. Unfortunately, the carbon footprints of these products are quite high and more environmentally friendly solutions are required for large businesses.

After more than three years of work and more than 700 prototypes, Dyson has a technological solution to this issue:

Dyson Airblade 9kJ hand dryer dries hands in as little as 10 seconds. It uses digital engine V4 Producing airflow at a speed of 624km/h The Airblade 9kj is also the quietest Dyson hand dryer ever developed.

A fleece-lined glass fiber HEPA filter filters out particles from the toilet. Airblade 9kj capturing 99.95%In this way, it ensures that the hands are dried with fresh air, without being contaminated with bacteria again. Thanks to the “Time of Flight” sensors that detect your hands during use, the drying process is completed without any contact.

Airblade 9kj consumes 87% less energy in Economic Mode and also produces 85% less carbon dioxide emissions than paper towels, thus offering a more economical and greener solution. If you want to see what kind of technical details are behind this advanced technology, you can take a look here.

In conclusion…

Of course, unfortunately it is not possible to access this type of hand dryer everywhere. For this reason, the simplest solution would be to dry your hands with a paper towel after washing them, avoiding any contact. It would be best not to use traditional dryers, especially in public areas, and if you are in a difficult situation, dry yourself with a napkin that you carry in your own bag. Otherwise, you will blow all the bacteria and germs of the area you are in into your hands.