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  • Soap and Water
  • Hand Sanitizer
  • Why and When
  • Choosing and Using Soap
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  • Food Safety
  • Cover Your Cough
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Hand Hygiene

  • Hand Hygiene Home
  • Soap and Water
  • Hand Sanitizer
  • Why and When
  • Choosing and Using Soap
  • Teaching Hand Hygiene
  • For Schools and Child Care
  • For Food Handlers
  • For Health Care Professionals
  • Posters and Print Materials

Related Topics

  • Food Safety
  • Cover Your Cough
  • Infection Control
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Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Prevention and Control Division
651-201-5414
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Contact Info

Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Prevention and Control Division
651-201-5414
IDEPC Comment Form

Cleaning Hands with Hand Sanitizer

Clean Your Hands!
Posters, fact sheets, and more about cleaning your hands with waterless or alcohol-based hand sanitizers.

How it works:

  • How It Works: Cleaning Hands with Waterless Hand Sanitizer
    Components to washing with alcohol-based hand sanitizer, the proper technique, and how hand sanitizer works. 

How to poster:

  • Alcohol-Based Handrubs: The New Way to Get Clean
    This poster about alcohol-based handrubs could be hung near dispensers. 

Videos:

  • Cleaning Hands with Hand Sanitizer: ASL (YouTube)
  • Cleaning Hands with Hand Sanitizer: Amharic (YouTube)
    • Cleaning Hands with Hand Sanitizer Transcript: Amharic (PDF)
  • Cleaning Hands with Hand Sanitizer: Arabic (YouTube)
    • Cleaning Hands with Hand Sanitizer Transcript: Arabic (PDF)
  • Cleaning Hands with Hand Sanitizer: Chinese (YouTube)
    • Cleaning Hands with Hand Sanitizer Transcript: Chinese (PDF)
  • Cleaning Hands with Hand Sanitizer: Hmong (YouTube)
    • Cleaning Hands with Hand Sanitizer Transcript: Hmong (PDF)
  • Cleaning Hands with Hand Sanitizer: Karen (YouTube)
    • Cleaning Hands with Hand Sanitizer Transcript: Karen (PDF)
  • Cleaning Hands with Hand Sanitizer: Russian (YouTube)
    • Cleaning Hands with Hand Sanitizer Transcript: Russian (PDF)
  • Cleaning Hands with Hand Sanitizer: Somali (YouTube)
    • Cleaning Hands with Hand Sanitizer Transcript Somali (PDF)
  • Cleaning Hands with Hand Sanitizer: Spanish (YouTube)
    • Cleaning Hands with Hand Sanitizer Transcript Spanish (PDF)
  • Cleaning Hands with Hand Sanitizer: Vietnamese (YouTube)
    • Cleaning Hands with Hand Sanitizer Transcript: Vietnamese (PDF)
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Last Updated: 03/21/2025
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