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Touch door handles.
When it comes to choosing door hardware the most important consideration should be security.
Use objects if possible or clean paper towels.
Open doors with an elbow or the back of a hand is another suggestion from infectious disease experts.
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Door locks knobs and handles.
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For this strategy use the footpull or the doorwave.
According to experts at baptist health it s best to avoid using your fingertips when opening doors.
Note that these are considered touchless because no part of your skin touches the door.
The three easiest to implement strategies are.
When you enter an office space look for what researchers call the high touch areas among them.
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But unless you have telekinesis you won t have a choice but to touch some door handles as you begin to venture out in public.
Or use your knuckle to press an elevator button.
That s where no touch door hardware comes in.
Here you will find a full line of touch free door pulls wave to open norton door closers door foot pulls adams rite paddle trim and glass dividers.
Arm and foot pulls offer a method of opening doors without grasping hardware by the hand.
Avoid touching surfaces with fingertips.
Push pull hardware allows doors to be opened with a nudge of the hip.
The buttons on your office coffee machine photocopier and water cooler and handle on your company s staff refrigerator could easily host the coronavirus.
For this strategy use the sanitgrasp or the sanitary door opener.
The light switch the door handle the water cooler the buttons on the printer and so forth.
Your fingertips are most likely to transmit a virus because that s how people touch nose mouth or the eyes.
How to safely open a door.