Air Hand Dryers Spread More Germs Than Paper Towels by Hannah Joy on March 17, 2021 at 9:39 PM
High speed air dryers contaminate your washed hands when compared to paper towels. A new research shows that during hand drying, high speed air dryers spread germs not only onto your hands but also onto your clothing & transferring more bacteria to other surfaces.
The study was published in
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology, the journal of the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America.
Past research has shown recommended handwashing practices for healthcare workers are often not followed with average adherence of 40%. To better understand the impact of hand drying in hand hygiene, researchers conducted an experiment to learn the role of different hand drying methods in spreading germs from poorly washed hands beyond the restroom.