This type of sign seems to be popping up in bathrooms all over the place these days. Detailed instructions on how you ought to wash your hands. Now, I know a lot of people choose not to wash their hands when they finish using the toilet, but do we really think it is from a lack of knowledge?
That is the general question. Now, specifically relating to the instructions on this sign:
- Do we expect people to carry around fingernail brushes with them? If not, are we providing them? If we are providing them, would it ever be more sanitary to use a communal fingernail brush than to just work the soap around your nails as much as possible by hand?
- Doesn’t washing your hands “up to your elbows” seem a bit much? If people are really not washing their hands at all, don’t we think a slightly easier to complete ask is in order?
Your thoughts please.
I suppose this sort of sign is a ‘sign’ of the times.
In our litigious society it’s not difficult to imagine a restaurant having to put up signs like this to help prove their innocence when it came to a food poisoning suit.
“See? We did everything we could short of having the manager washing the employees hands.”
As an aside, I have found that since purchasing my first touch-interface cell phone I wash my hands more than ever. Who needs or wants greasy fingerprints on their device!
Maybe enforcing that people wash their hands is a new and better task for the TSA?
@ Jordan,
Would we then have to take off our shoes and belts to wash our hands?
@ Liam
Of course! Unless you wanted to submit to a rigorous physical inspection of how well you cleaned your hands.