Do you wash your hands after using the toilet?

[namechange085]

Feeling very icky after discovering most of my work colleagues don't. I brought in handwash recently for work. Normally work buy it but they haven't done so I brought a spare in from my house. Work always buy the cheapest possible so I know this is the hand wash brand I brought in.

Anyway I have been off for just over a week. Went back yesterday it has hardly gone down/been used and is still almost full. There is no other sink/hand washing option unless they go to the kitchen which would be strange. There are 6 colleagues over 8 days using the toilet. I walked back into the office and said made a comment about how nice the hand wash smells. Hoping they would agree and say they had bought some more. Instead they looked at me blankly 🤮

That’s awful. Pretty much basic hygiene to wash your hands after visiting the toilet. I’d be very wary of what I was touching in future.

Did you make it clear you were donating it for communal use. They might have been avoiding using 'your' hand soap.

Always but the number of people I see come out of public toilets without confirms that a lot of people don't!!

Always especially after the Pandemic

I mean I always did anyway

I’d expect they just washed their hands with water thinking the soap wasn’t for communal use. As in showed their hands the water. Thinking it’s cleaning them when quite frankly it’s not!

I always wash mine really thoroughly in work. Germ spread central.

PS your work has a legal requirement to provide hand soap according to the health and safety executive:

1. Toilets and washing facilities

Employers have to provide:

enough toilets and washbasins for those expected to use them – find out how many
where possible, separate facilities for men and women – failing that, rooms with lockable doors
clean facilities – preferably with walls and floors tiled (or covered in suitable waterproof material) to make them easier to clean
a supply of toilet paper and, for female employees, somewhere to dispose of sanitary dressings
facilities that are well lit and ventilated
hot and cold running water
enough soap or other washing agents
a basin large enough to wash hands and forearms if necessary
a way of drying hands, such as paper towels or a hot-air dryer
showers where necessary, for particularly dirty work
You must always consider the needs of those with disabilities.

Yes to washing hands. No to using soap every time especially if only urine but then if only urine it’s a pretty “non touch technique” on the toileting anyway. Perfumed soap ruins my hands and if my skin breaks down on my hands I’m much more likely to get an infection that way.

Always but I know many don't.

I also keep a small sanitiser gel in my pocket for use after I have used the (potentially dirty) door handle (and any others I have to navigate on the way back to the office).

I did consider that but I can't see hand wash anywhere else except the kitchen. I also think I did say I've brought some handwash in although it was over a week ago so can't be 100%

My work propped the doors to the loos open as a Covid measure for months (presumably so people wouldn't touch the handles. I am opposite the women's loos and can confirm that about 8 out of 10 did not wash their hands after using the loo. I try to tell myself they were using hand gel in their office but ...

That's just disgusting! 🤢
Even my 2 year old knows to wash her hands after using her potty, and she's no where near fully potty trained!

Thank you although to be fair it's the first time I have had to do it in over 2 years. My manager is based at home so she probably didn't realise we had ran out.

Always, not doing so is disgusting and there’s no excuse.

Not washing your hands is disgusting. It's just an automatic thing when you've been to the loo

I remember taking my niece to the toilet in M&S when she was about 4. A woman came out a cubicle & headed for the door to which my niece said very loudly 'Ewww Auntie Glitter that lady didn't wash her hands. That's really dirty' Couldn't argue with her nor could the rest of the q judging by the reaction she got 😂