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Washing With Soap and Water

  • Soap and Water Home
  • How It Works
  • Don't Forget to Wash
  • Be A Germ-Buster
  • With a Nailbrush
  • Fact Sheet
  • Wash Your Hands (in 24 languages)
  • Wash Your Hands Posters
  • Health in Your Hands Posters

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
IDEPC Comment Form

Contact Info

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

Be A Germ-Buster... Wash Your Hands Poster
(How-to Hand Washing)

This poster showing the six steps to cleaner hands could be hung in restrooms to reinforce proper hand washing technique.

image of the Be A Germ-Buster... Wash Your Hands Poster.

This poster was adapted with permission from the Washington State Department of Health and is available for download in fourteen languages (English, Somali, Arabic, Bengali, Cambodian, Chinese, Hindi, Korean, Nepalese, Russian, Spanish, Turkish, Ukrainian, and Vietnamese).

  • Download a print version:
    Be A Germ Buster Poster (How-to Hand Washing) (PDF)
    • Somali (PDF)

      More from Washington State:
    • Arabic (PDF)
    • Bengali (PDF)
    • Cambodian (PDF)
    • Chinese (PDF)
    • Hindi (PDF)
    • Korean (PDF)
    • Nepalese (PDF)
    • Russian (PDF)
    • Spanish (PDF)
    • Turkish (PDF)
    • Vietnamese (PDF)

Be A Germ-Buster: Wash Your Hands

  1. Wet
  2. Soap
  3. Wash, 20 seconds
  4. Rinse
  5. Dry
  6. Turn off water with a paper towel

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  • hand hygiene
Last Updated: 10/04/2022

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