Saving lives - washing hands - drying with paper

With the slogan "Save Lives - clean your hands", the World Health Organisation draws attention to the importance of hand hygiene for human health. Numerous studies have shown that hand drying plays an important role in reducing the number of germs on hand surfaces. Hand drying with paper has proven to be the most hygienic drying method.

"Hand hygiene is of great importance because it can interrupt chains of infection and thus protect health. We learned how important hand hygiene is during the COVID pandemic at the latest. Drying hands with towel paper has been proven to be the most hygienic method," affirms Martin Krengel, Vice President of DIE PAPIERINDUSTRIE and CEO of the tissue paper manufacturer WEPA. It is not for nothing that the German statutory accident insurance DGUV and the Federal Institute for Occupational Safety and Health recommend the use of paper towels, which are the first choice especially in commercial areas such as restaurants, factories, airports or railway stations.