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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

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

Handwashing With a Nail Brush

This poster showing the eight steps to washing hands using a nail brush could be hung in restrooms to reinforce proper hand washing technique.

Download a print version of this document:
Handwashing With a Nail Brush (PDF)

image of the handwashing with a nail brush poster.

  1. Wet hands & brush
  2. Soap brush
  3. Brush & Lather
  4. Rinse
  5. Soap hands
  6. Lather
  7. Rinse
  8. Towel dry

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Last Updated: 10/04/2022

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