1.2 Explain The Importance Of Hand Washing In Child Care

The child care centre owners and staff play an significant role in protecting children from, and minimizing the impact of infection and illness. The follow their preventive measures to maintain the health status of children’s. Child care centers need good controls and help reduce the number of infections. A good infection control programs is one that everyone follows all the time. Training is given to owners and workers to consider the approach becomes normal team. The child care centre team establish some guidelines and procedures for workers, public, and parents of children’s which are as follows:

 Promote hand hygiene.

 Hand sanitizing and cleaning.

 Sanitizing in short child care settings.

 Follow routine procedures when cleaning blood and

body fluids.
 Proper diapering and toileting.
 Kitchen duties and illness prevention.
 Child wellness check up.
 Signs of illness and maintain health status.

The no one thing people working with children should do to keep themselves and the children they work with health is:

HAND HYGIENE
Hands are the contaminated part of the body, little and big hands pic up germs from anything they touch and they spread those germs to everything they contact with it.

Hand hygiene is a procedure to free hands from germs. Handwashing with soap and water is still the single most effective way to reduce the spread of illness.

Encourage and teach the children’s how to wash their hands properly in a relax way for example sing rhymes while washing their hands. Everyone wash their hands before and after doing every procedure.

Six steps to proper hand washing:

1. Wet hands with warm running water.

2. Apply a small amount of liquid soap. Anti bacterial soap is not required.

3. Rub hands together for at least 15 seconds. Rub palms, back of hands, between fingers and under nails/ creating a lather.

4. Rinse of all soap with running water.

5. Dry hands with clean, disposable towel.

6. Discard the use towel in the waste container.

Wash your hands before:

• Preparing, serving, eating or feeding others.

• Brushing or flossing your

teeth.
• Putting in or taking out contact lenses.
• Treating wounds or cuts.
• Providing care to someone who is sick.
Wash your hands after:
• Any contact with sick person or their environment.
• Using the toilet, helping a child use the toilet, or changing a diaper.
• Blowing or wiping your nose, or wiping the nose of a child.
• Coughing or sneezing.
• Handling garbage.
• Treating wounds or cuts.
• Handling or cleaning up after pets.
• Any time hands look or dirty.
• After handling garbage
• After handling pets, pet cages.

Why hand hygiene is necessary:
Hand hygiene is very necessary because the skin is main defence against pathogens. Most of the research studies shown germs are enter our body from our hands. Our hands are in touch with various things and people.