What is your opinion on requiring employees to wash their hands but not customers?

[Anonymous]

I noticed a sign inside a grocery store bathroom saying, "Employees must wash hands before returning to work" yet the bathroom didn't appear to have paper towels (just air blower to dry hands) and the door just had a door handle which you need to pull to open door. If customers don't wash their hands and touch the handle, the handle will get dirty. Then, employee who touches the handle with their hand, will dirty their hand...

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2 mo

To me, its unhygienic, unless they make it so you don't have to use hand to open door. Possible solutions: (1) handle at floor to grab with your shoe (2) door that swings both ways that can just be pushed.

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2 mo

*handle at bottom of door near floor, which you can grab with shoe

[Nikki1989]

Employees should know how to protect themselves. Most people are pigs no matter how clean they might appear on the surface.

[queenofcardio]

Unhygienic especially if there's no paper towels.

[slatyb]

Customers don't touch other's food.

[Mike_Hum]

you could try not being a germaphobe.

[Asker]

What is the point of having a law for employees to their wash hands, if the set up in the bathroom negates it?

[Asker]

Correction: ... employees to wash their hands,...

[Mike_Hum]

employees are handling your food.

[Asker]

What happens when they directly touch a dirty handle with their hands, after washing their hands? Do their hands get dirty? There is no paper towels in the bathroom I visited.

[Asker]

You expect them contort their body and grab the handle with their shoe?

[Mike_Hum]

it'll be ok.

[Asker]

It is stupid to make a law to wash hands if the set up of bathroom negates it.

[Mike_Hum]

you'll be ok.

[Jeff51]

Signs in restrooms

[oldman26]

They can't enforce that on customers