Wednesday, January 14, 2009

Hand Washing - Dryer

A provider requested to post the question below:

Can air dryers be used to dry hands? If so, how does this impact the hand washing procedure?

1 comment:

Anita Platt said...

The issue would be turning off the faucet. If it is an automatic faucet and they don't have to touch it, then air drying is not a problem. If they turn off the faucet with clean hands, they are recontaminating their hands.