Washing Hands Signs

Washing Hands and Hand Sanitizer Signs

Our Printable Hand Washing Posters pdf show how to wash your hands properly with soap and water. The posters explain the correct hand washing technique, step by step, clearly illustrated in 12 steps of handwashing. How long should effective hand washing take? The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends that proper hand washing should take at least 20 seconds.

Our Printable Hand Washing signs show that hand washing is required and can be used for restaurants, or placed in bathrooms or toilets. Our Please Wash Your Hands Printable Signs show illustrated hand washing instructions and can be located above the sink in areas where hand washing is required.

Our Sanitize Your Hands Signs show how to properly use alcohol based hand sanitizer gel and how to disinfect your hands effectively in clear illustrations. These Printable Please use Provided Hand Sanitizer Signs are often placed at the entrance of locations where the use of hand sanitizer gel is required.

Multicultural COVID 19 Signs and Posters

All our Printable Hand Washing signs and Hand Sanitizer Signs are illustrated with brown hands, black hands and  white hands, without text. Our Please Wash Your Hands Signs are Multicultural (culturally diverse), made for all people from all over the world!

Our Handwashing Posters are also available with text in many different languages: English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Dutch, Italian, German, Danish, Indonesian and Swahili.

Would you like to see another text or translation in a different language on the posters? Please let us know! Or, when you are a designer and want to use the illustrations or change text, you can download the handwashing poster in vector.

Handwashing is more important than ever! Show how to wash your hands correctly with a hand washing poster for kids, child care, healthcare workers, COVID 19, food service, restaurant, classroom and schools. Simply download and print the colorful classroom posters and teachers posters about hand washing that address equality, to brighten up your wall!

How to wash your hands

Through the hands, pathogens can be easily spread. By regularly washing your hands with soap and water, you reduce the chance for yourself or someone around you of getting sick. In locations like shops where hand washing is not possible it is recommended to disinfect your hands before entering. Hand sanitizer or disinfection gel is often available at the entrance.

How to wash your hands step by step:

• Wet your hands with water.
• Apply enough soap to cover your hands.
• Rub your hands together.
• Use one hand to rub the back of the other hand and clean in between the fingers. Do the same with the other hand.
• Rub your hands together and clean in between your fingers.
• Rub the back of your fingers against your palms.
• Rub your thumb using your other hand. Do the same with the other thumb.
• Rub your fingertips on the palm of your other hand. Do the same with other hand.
• Rinse your hands with water.
• Dry your hands completely with a disposable towel.
• Use the disposable towel to turn off the tap.

If you do not have immediate access to soap and water, then use alcohol-based hand rub if available.

More Printable Posters and Signs

In addition to our Wash Your Hands Signs, we also have unique signs to help remind people in a recognizable way to wear a Face Mask and to keep Social Distance. Our QR code Posters can be used at locations where people need to show, to scan or to check-in with a QR code. Our Rapid test, Antigen test, PCR test, Corona test and COVID-19 Test Required Signs show that a negative COVID-19 test is mandatory. We also have Vaccination Signs and Vaccination Promotion Posters to promote Vaccination against COVID-19.