Public handwashing plays a critical role in protecting public health, yet its effectiveness in everyday use is rarely evaluated as an integrated system. While codes and standards regulate individual fixtures and components, design decisions related to layout, sequencing, and user interaction can introduce unintended barriers that reduce effective handwashing behavior and compromise health, safety, and welfare.

This course examines public handwashing environments through a system-based and human-factors approach, connecting design intent to real-world performance.

Participants will analyze how spatial configuration, technology selection, and behavioral assumptions influence hygiene reliability and user safety in public and commercial facilities.

Learning Objectives

1. Identify how public handwashing performance affects health and safety outcomes

   beyond minimum code requirements.

2. Differentiate between assumed performance and demonstrated performance in public hygiene environments.

3. Recognize common design and sequencing conditions that reduce effective

   handwashing behavior.

4. Assess how layout, user interaction, and system coordination influence hygiene reliability and public welfare.

5. Apply system-level design principles that support safer, more reliable handwashing environments.

Course Information

SARA Course Number: CHC001

Length : 1 HR

Credits: 1 HSW

Level: Intro

If you would like to have this SARA Certified Course presented to your office please contact us at CEUS@saranational.org

Contact Information:

Clean Hands Certified

Tim Cromley

Founder

tim@cleanhandscertified.com