Wet hands transfer up to 70,000 germs to items such as skin, food and utensils during brief contact. This number is reduced to a few hundred if the hands have been dried carefully.

The risks of picking up and passing on viruses and other micro-organisms are high if the hands are wet or even damp. Good hand hygiene therefore is a matter of washing and drying the hands carefully. Hands need to be washed in a stream of running water with rubbing and dried with care.

Surveys have shown that many users of public rest room facilities take short cuts washing and drying their hands. Impatience and queue waiting to access hand drying equipment means that few users of rest room.

Using a warm air dryer, is an effective way of ensuring your hands are completely dry. The bad press often ascribed to warm air dryers is due entirely to the fact that, in practice, they are used for just a fraction of the time needed to achieve dry hands.

• They are cost effective – no need to continually restock with paper towels or other drying products.
• Reduction in litter and waste in comparison with paper towels, which cannot be recycled, therefore better for the environment.
• No more piles of damp paper towels strewn over the floor or blocking the toilets.
• You can’t toss them into a bin and set them alight.
• Hygienic, comfortable to use and gentle on sensitive skin.