{"id":18022,"date":"2021-10-08T01:15:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-08T01:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/2021\/10\/08\/the-big-hygiene-reset-new-research-reveals-almost-1-in-2-people-would-leave-a-public-venue-if-it-did-not-appear-to-have-good-hygiene-measures-in-place\/"},"modified":"2021-10-08T01:15:00","modified_gmt":"2021-10-08T01:15:00","slug":"the-big-hygiene-reset-new-research-reveals-almost-1-in-2-people-would-leave-a-public-venue-if-it-did-not-appear-to-have-good-hygiene-measures-in-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/2021\/10\/08\/the-big-hygiene-reset-new-research-reveals-almost-1-in-2-people-would-leave-a-public-venue-if-it-did-not-appear-to-have-good-hygiene-measures-in-place\/","title":{"rendered":"The Big Hygiene Reset: New research reveals almost 1 in 2 people would leave a public venue if it did not appear to have good hygiene measures in place"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> \n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>SINGAPORE&#13;<br \/>\n&#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.media-outreach.com\/\">Media&#13;<br \/>\nOutReach<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; 8 October 2021 &#8211;\u00a0Rentokil Initial has released a new global hygiene report, <i>The Global Hygiene Reset,<\/i> examining the&#13;<br \/>\npandemic&#8217;s influence on people&#8217;s attitudes, behaviours and expectations about&#13;<br \/>\nhygiene. The world&#8217;s leading pest control and hygiene services provider&#13;<br \/>\nsurveyed 20,000 people across 20 countries in EMEA, APAC and AMER to build a&#13;<br \/>\nglobal perspective.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><b>Key findings<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>70% of people surveyed have&#13;<br \/>\nhigher hygiene expectations of themselves because of the COVID-19 pandemic<\/li>\n<li>74% said that they are now more&#13;<br \/>\nconcerned that other people&#8217;s poor hand hygiene could put their health at risk&#13;<br \/>\nthan before the COVID-19 pandemic<\/li>\n<li>74% responded that they are now&#13;<br \/>\nmore aware of germ hotspots than before the COVID-19 pandemic<\/li>\n<li>71% agree that they are now&#13;<br \/>\nmore fearful of the spread of germs via the surfaces they touch than before the&#13;<br \/>\npandemic\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>71% of respondents are&#13;<br \/>\nconcerned about whether a venue has adequate measures in place to stop the&#13;<br \/>\nspread of germs<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i>The Global Hygiene Reset<\/i>&#13;<br \/>\nreport provides&#13;<br \/>\nunique insights into how individuals have adapted their hygiene behaviours&#13;<br \/>\nbecause of the COVID-19 pandemic and sheds light on the multiple ways the&#13;<br \/>\nbenchmark for &#8220;good hygiene&#8221; has shifted as a response. A renowned&#13;<br \/>\npsychologist, bestselling author and broadcaster, provides expert analysis in&#13;<br \/>\nthe report. <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Over the past 18 months, public health&#13;<br \/>\nadvice has emphasised the importance of better hygiene practices involving&#13;<br \/>\nhand, surface and air hygiene. This has led to a greater awareness of hygiene,&#13;<br \/>\nhow easily pathogens spread and the clear hygiene practices needed to help stop&#13;<br \/>\nthe spread of COVID-19 and other common viruses, such as infl<span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">uenza and&#13;<br \/>\nnorovirus.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>72% of people surveyed are now&#13;<br \/>\nmore concerned about the spread of germs via the air they breathe indoors in a&#13;<br \/>\npublic venue than before the COVID-19 pandemic<\/li>\n<li>74% of respondents say they&#13;<br \/>\nwould now like reassurance that the surfaces they are touching in a public&#13;<br \/>\nvenue are disinfected regularly<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The survey reveals a new benchmark&#13;<br \/>\nin hygiene expectations and that many of the practices adopted by people to&#13;<br \/>\nkeep themselves and others safe have become second nature and are likely to&#13;<br \/>\nremain.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The global&#13;<br \/>\npattern shows that people wash their hands more now (66%) to protect themselves&#13;<br \/>\nfrom common viruses than they did before the COVID-19 pandemic and that they&#8217;re&#13;<br \/>\nlikely to do this more in future (66%). This increased expectation of good hygiene practices will&#13;<br \/>\ncontinue to impact the way we live our lives and the way we work. <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Businesses that&#13;<br \/>\nembrace this shift in the fundamental mindset and implement integrated hygiene&#13;<br \/>\nstrategies \u2013 not only for hand hygiene but for surfaces and clean air as well \u2013&#13;<br \/>\nwill be better placed to protect the health and safety of staff and customers,&#13;<br \/>\nkeeping them reassured and giving them the confidence to return to their&#13;<br \/>\npremises. <i><s\/><\/i><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Amanda Jackson,&#13;<br \/>\nGlobal Head of Category, Hygiene &amp; Wellbeing from Rentokil Initial&#13;<br \/>\ncommented on this paradigm shift in expectations.\u00a0 &#8220;Regardless of where we live and work, the&#13;<br \/>\nimplications of the increased awareness of and appreciation for hygiene will&#13;<br \/>\nhave a ripple effect on our society for the coming decades. \u00a0From avoiding frequently touched surfaces to&#13;<br \/>\nconcerns about poor indoor air quality, the research shows that people feel&#13;<br \/>\nhygiene must be at the forefront of decisions made by organisations and&#13;<br \/>\nbusinesses across the globe. Good hygiene practices will continue to be&#13;<br \/>\nessential to living a more comfortable, productive and healthier life. Results&#13;<br \/>\nfrom our survey show that 71% of people are concerned about whether a venue has&#13;<br \/>\nadequate measures in place to stop the spread of germs. An integrated approach&#13;<br \/>\nto hygiene can help put their minds at rest and keep them safe.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.media-outreach.com\/news\/2021-10-08\/98127\/the-big-hygiene-reset-new-research-reveals-almost-1-in-2-people-would-leave-a-public-venue-if-it-did-not-appear-to-have-good-hygiene-measures-in-place\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SINGAPORE&#13; &#8211;\u00a0Media&#13; OutReach\u00a0&#8211; 8 October 2021 &#8211;\u00a0Rentokil Initial has released a new global hygiene report, The Global Hygiene Reset, examining the&#13; pandemic&#8217;s influence on people&#8217;s attitudes, behaviours and expectations about&#13; hygiene. The world&#8217;s leading pest control and hygiene services provider&#13; surveyed 20,000 people across 20 countries in EMEA, APAC and AMER to build a&#13; global &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18023,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[60],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18022"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18022\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}