1.1 Explain The Importance Of Effective Hand Hygiene In Schools

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• Effective hand hygiene: Washing hands with soap and water, or using alcohol based hand rub which reduces the number of germs on the hands. It is one of the important prevention from infection.
• Effective environmental cleaning: Keeping the environment clean for example cleaning the table after every meal and dusting and moping. It is important to make sure that all surfaces have been cleaned with detergent and warm water than to use a disinfectant. Using simply a disinfectant doesn’t work before using it the surface must be clean.
• Exclusion of ill children, educators and other staff: The main aim of exclusion is to reduce the spread of infectious disease. The less contact there is between people who have an infectious disease and people