| The Case of Hygiene in Washrooms |
Washrooms, although may not have the privilege of making the first impression, nevertheless, often leave the lasting impressions on the guests. |
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| Feminine Hygiene |
| In India Feminine hygiene is still an unknown agenda, especially for those who are responsible for maintaining public and institutional washrooms. |
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| Antimicrobial Soaps Neesha Barchha, Dr. S. Shrivastava |
| On watching a number of advertisements in print & electronic media one really gets convinced to use antibacterial products for protecting |
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| Precautions while eating out By Brijesh Singh Rathore |
Most of us like dining out with family, friends, or colleagues and thus visit a restaurant. We choose a restaurant keeping in mind various factors like location of the restaurant, the taste and the variety of food served, the ambience, and most importantly if the rates suit our pocket. But we hardly consider ‘hygiene as a |
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| Importance of Hand Hygiene |
If you discovered that one easy 15-second task, performed several times each day, could help protect your health and spare your family and friends from recurrent infections and disease, would you be willing to participate? Good. Wash your hands. |
By Abhay Desai The author is Director, Marketing - Johnsondiversey India |
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| HospitalityHygiene |
First impression is a lasting one, so say the wise men. For the hospitality industry it is essential that the guest is impressed as soon as he enters the portals of the hotel. It is not only important to maintain an impressive décor in the lobby but it is also essential to keep it clean. Besides the lobby every other nook and cranny has also to be kept clean. Maintaining hygiene forms an important aspect of the hospitality industry. Ashok Malkani finds out how the housekeeping and other departments involved in keeping the hotels clean succeed in their endeavour. |
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Clean Hands – are they necessary or an over hyped concept of modern age? What does clean hands mean and why do we need these? What is the main difference between Clean Hands and Sterile Hands? These and many other questions come to mind when we mention the terminology of hands that have been cleaned with soap, but still harbour a plethora of germs. |
With inputs from: By Ameeta Sharma |
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In India Feminine hygiene is still an unknown agenda, especially for those who are responsible for maintaining public and institutional washrooms. It is still a taboo for women to discuss problems specific to them and bring them to the notice of policy makers.
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In our history chapters we don’t find any documented evidence of the toilet habits of our predecessors. The Nobel Prize winner for Medicine (1913) Charles Richet attributes this silence to the disgust that arises from noxiousness and lack of usefulness of human waste |
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Probably one of the reasons why a certain section of society was once considered ‘untouchable’ was because of their hygiene level, albeit profession related, being harmful to other human beings. Any human being that dealt in night soil or did manual cleaning of areas infested with germs and infections might develop immunity over time but their capacity to transfer bacteria and germs from one place to another was always great. However, now times have changed. It is socially unnecessary and politically incorrect to label anybody by the work they do. |
With inputs from:Ameeta Sharma |
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If you are a woman and travelling long distance, or just out of the house, one of the primary concerns apart from personal security is availability of hygienic conditions when one needs to use the washroom. Probably it should be the same for men, but the typical problem faced by any woman of reproductive age is also the monthly time of the cycle when using facilities that are clean and hygienic enough for her to dispose material becomes paramount.
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With inputs from:Ameeta Sharma |
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Public toilet sanitation is a serious issue we confront every moment, which questions our civic sense. The solution lies in the awareness and implementation of social norms and, ‘pay toilets’ is all set to become the answer for sanitary questions. |
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