Celebrating World Hand Hygiene Day, 2022

Unite for Safety, Clean your Hands

It’s almost our favourite time of the year – World Hand Hygiene Day!

We are proud to once again support World Hand Hygiene Day, 2022 on 5th May. This years theme focuses on recognizing that we can add to a facility’s climate or culture of safety and quality through hand hygiene. It also aims to promote that a strong quality and safety culture encourages people to clean their hands at the right times and with the right products.

When a healthcare facility’s “quality and safety climate or culture” values hand hygiene and infection prevention and control (IPC), this results in both patients and health workers feeling protected and cared for. People at all levels need to believe in the importance of hand hygiene and IPC to save lives. We all play a part in achieving the appropriate behaviours and attitudes towards hand hygiene and IPC.

Campaign details

SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands brings people together in support of hand hygiene improvement globally. This year we are encouraged to unite, talk and work together on hand hygiene for high quality safer care everywhere.

Campaign theme: A health care “quality and safety climate or culture” that values hand hygiene and infection prevention and control.

Slogan: Unite for safety: clean your hands.

Campaign objectives: To recognize that people of all levels should work together to influence the culture/climate through clean hands knowledge and behaviour, to meet the common goal of safety and quality in the health care organization.

Calls to action

Healthcare workers: thank you for leading by example and encouraging others to clean their hands.

IPC practitioners: thank you for engaging health workers to be part of new hand hygiene initiatives.

Quality and safety leads: thank you for working with infection prevention colleagues to support hand hygiene improvement.

Facility managers: thank you for promoting a quality and safety culture to ensure clean hands.

Policy makers: thank you for prioritizing resources, training and programmes on hand hygiene.
People who use healthcare: thank you for getting involved in local hand hygiene campaigns and activities.

Campaign essentials

There is a wide range of WHO campaign materials such as posters, social media assets, selfie boards, web banners, Zoom backgrounds, etc. available in the six official UN languages. All assets are available to download through the below link.

Download campaign materials

SureWash customers

Like every other year, SureWash is here to help facilities around the world celebrate World Hand Hygiene Day, 2022. SureWash devices are renowned for being fun, educational tools, especially on World Hand Hygiene Day. Therefore, we have compiled some promotional graphics along with a lesson and quiz for our customers to use on your devices this year. Please get in contact with a member of the team if you would like to avail of these.

Spreading awareness about the importance of hand hygiene is also an essential part of the WHO campaign. So make sure to take pictures and videos of your activities and share them on social media. It is our favourite time of the year when we get to see all of the different ways SureWash is used around the world. Make sure to tag @surewash so we can re-share on our social media platforms.