HANDWASHING

five steps, and the 20 seconds that actually matter

Built as a memo rather than a table: the thing worth hanging it up for reads across the room, with the full reference in smaller type below it.

Three sizes in one archive — from a sheet on the fridge to a poster on the wall.

Formats: A4 · A3 · A2
What you get: Print-ready PDFs, one per size, with every letterform converted to outlines — nothing to install, nothing to shift.
Subject: body and care · kids · memo · classroom

Steps follow CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, US) guidance word for word; the technique is general and works anywhere there’s soap and running water. This is hygiene, not medical advice — see a doctor for skin irritation or a wound.

SANITIZER ISN’T A SUBSTITUTE

Hand sanitizer is the fallback for when soap and water aren’t around, not an equal substitute — CDC states plainly that sanitizers “may not be as effective when hands are visibly dirty or greasy.”

That’s exactly the state hands are in after cooking, gardening or a scraped knee — soap and running water clear it, not a squirt of gel.

On the sheet

Steps follow CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, US) guidance word for word; the technique is general and works anywhere there’s soap and running water. This is hygiene, not medical advice — see a doctor for skin irritation or a wound.
Colour carries meaning, but meaning never rests on colour alone — the sheet reads in black and white.
Nothing about how it was made: the sheet carries only what the reader needs.

Printing

Three sizes in the archive: A4 — 210×297 mm, A3 — 297×420 mm, A2 — 420×594 mm.
All text is converted to outlines. No fonts to install, and nothing shifts on another machine.
White background and sparing fills — it prints on a home printer without draining the cartridge.
Margins of at least 10 mm: a home printer cannot print to the edge.
No stroke thinner than 0.3 mm, so nothing disappears in print.

Why the numbers can be trusted. Every countable number here is computed from data rather than typed in, and the sheet must pass 11 independent checks before it is allowed to build — how many items there are, the order they come in, and the claim in the highlighted box itself. If one fails, there is no file.

HANDWASHING

SANITIZER ISN’T A SUBSTITUTE

On the sheet

Printing

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