Everyone in the cleaning industry has always been told that hand
dryers in restrooms are not sanitary, they spread germs and bacteria
around. I always thought that this just came from the paper companies
because they are loosing sales to the hand dryers. A couple of years
ago, I was working with a rep, and I noticed that after he washed his
hands and noticed that there were no paper towels, only a hand dryer
he left the restroom with wet hands. I asked him about it. He said that
hand dryers blow a lot of germs and bacteria around. He also told
me to take a look under the hand dryer next time I was in a
restroom. There is a filter underneath the hand dryer that is
supposed to be cleaned on a weekly basis. I looked at one and it
looked like it hadn’t been cleaned in years. It had layers and
layers of caked on gunk (disgusting).
Since then I will not use hand dryers in restrooms. Now
this is where the story gets really interesting. The schools and
universities that have had the H1N1 (swine flue)
outbreak this year are being told by the health department that they
have to take out all of their hand dryers and replace them with towel
dispensers because the hand dryers are spreading disease. Please pass
this along so everyone knows not to use hand dryers.
shout:helomello.com)
*Saving ppls lives one hand at a time!
