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Rest room Hand Dryers - this one could save your life
From: WW
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Sent: Monday, November 16, 2009 3:31 PM
Subject: Rest room Hand Dryers - this one could save your life
This certainly is interesting information for all of us and also makes sense.
Everyone in the cleaning industry has always been told that hand dryers in restrooms are not sanitary, they spread germs and bacteria around. I always thought that this just came from the paper companies because they are loosing sales to the hand dryers. A couple of years ago, I was working with a rep, and I noticed that after he washed his hands and noticed that there were no paper towels, only a hand dryer he left the restroom with wet hands. I asked him about it. He said that hand dryers blow a lot of germs and bacteria around. He also told me to take a look under the hand dryer next time I was in a restroom. There is a filter underneath the hand dryer that is supposed to be cleaned on a weekly basis. I looked at one and it looked like it hadn't been cleaned in years. It had layers and layers of caked on gunk (disgusting). Since then I will not use hand dryers in restrooms. Now this is where the story gets really interesting. The schools and universities that have had the H1N1 (swine flue) outbreak this year are being told by the health department that they have to take out all of their hand dryers and replace them with (edit - paper) towel dispensers because the hand dryers are spreading disease. Please pass this along so everyone knows not to use hand dryers.
Makes sense to me, a former health inspector. Also use your paper towel on the door handle to exit the rest room. Responsible places will also have a waste basket for the towel by the door which you can now keep open with your foot to aid in discarding the towel.