Anchors for Handwashing
Thanks to contributions from many people worldwide, the following list of of over 400 anchors can help you design new habit for handwashing.
Browse the list below to find inspiration and ideas to help you design your own habit-forming recipes. [Note: This is a compilations of hundreds of contributions. We've cleaned up the list to remove duplicates as best possible). It's roughly formatted so there may be a few typos, etc.]
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After I. . . am anywhere in public
After I. . . arrive at any sort of gathering of more than x number of people
After I. . . arrive at a eat opportunity away from home and before eat
After I. . . arrive at a house with a new baby.
After I. . . arrive at a nursing home.
After I. . . arrive at a restaurant
After I. . . arrive at the office
After I. . . arrive at work
After I. . . arrive at your friend's house
After I. . . arrive home and close the door behind you
After I. . . arrive in a patient’s room in a hospital.
After I. . . arrive/depart your child's daycare or music class,
After I. . . arrived at a business meeting
After I. . . at defined intervals e.g 12.00, 4.00, 7.00
After I. . . before and after you eat a meal
After I. . . before handling contact lenses
After I. . . before you go to bed
After I. . . before you put on hand lotion
After I. . . before you take your contact lenses out
After I. . . blow, wipe, or touch your nose (not always possible but should try)
After I. . . blow your nose, sneez, or cough
After I. . . board public transport
After I. . . borrow an article (calculator, pen, pencil)
After I. . . bring home fruits and vegetables you wash your hands and them.
After I. . . bring in mail/packages/newspaper - ups/usps/fedex
After I. . . bring in the trash & re-cycle bins...
After I. . . bring your kids home from school
After I. . . buy a snack from the vending machine
After I. . . care for children (change diaper, etc.)
After I. . . care for someone who is unwell
After I. . . change after working out
After I. . . check in your luggage at the airport
After I. . . check out your books at the library
After I. . . check your phone
After I. . . clean a cat litter box
After I. . . clean my house, desk, dirty surface
After I. . . clean up puppy accidents
After I. . . climb or descend stairs with a handrail...
After I. . . close my office door for the night
After I. . . close the mailbox
After I. . . close your ipad
After I. . . com into the kitchen to prepare food
After I. . . come back home from outside (park, church, running errands, shop,
After I. . . come home and take off your shoes
After I. . . come indoors from outdoors
After I. . . conclude a meeting
After I. . . cough - especially if you 'catch your cough' (even if you cough into your elbow)
After I. . . cough and cover your mouth or blow your nose with a facial tissue...
After I. . . cough or blow your nose
After I. . . cough or sneeze into your hands...
After I. . . daycare pick up
After I. . . decide to do any chores (and before you start) then wash again wards
After I. . . decide to put the baby in the highchair for a meal,
After I. . . dig in the dirt
After I. . . do face skin care
After I. . . do the laundry
After I. . . drink from a water fountain.
After I. . . drive a (shared) car
After I. . . eat a meal
After I. . . enter a dining hall (and before you serve your self food on a buffet)
After I. . . enter a hospital
After I. . . enter the bathroom to apply my makeup
After I. . . enter the front door of your home (before greet anyone includ pets)...
After I. . . enter the house
After I. . . enter the house of an elderly person, house of worship where elderly are gathered
After I. . . enter the preschool to pick up my child
After I. . . exercise
After I. . . feed your pets...
After I. . . fill out forms at the dmv.
After I. . . fill your water bottle at a community cooler
After I. . . finish a group class (yoga, lecture)
After I. . . finish classes at school
After I. . . finish load up your cart at the store and before you pay at check out , go to rest room and wash your hands.
After I. . . finish your meal at a restaurant
After I. . . finish your meal/ or throw out your take out food.
After I. . . finished work out at the gym
After I. . . flush the toilet
After I. . . fly on an airline
After I. . . forget and touch your face
After I. . . get back to work/school lunch
After I. . . get dressed to workout at a gym.
After I. . . get in and off a taxi
After I. . . get in the car
After I. . . get in the car, use hand sanitizer.
After I. . . get into a company (shared) vehicle . . . (this would involve us hand sanitizer)
After I. . . get into your vehicle and shut the door. (us sanitizer)
After I. . . get off a flight
After I. . . get off the basketball court
After I. . . get off the bus.
After I. . . get off the subway
After I. . . get off the transit/bus
After I. . . get out of an uber/cab
After I. . . get out of class
After I. . . get someth from other people's hand, ...
After I. . . get up from the computer
After I. . . get up from the table at a restaurant
After I. . . gett coffee in the break room
After I. . . gett up from your table hav finished a meal at a restaurant ...
After I. . . give the server the restaurant menu.
After I. . . go enter the locker room
After I. . . go out for dinner
After I. . . go shopping
After I. . . go through a buffet line
After I. . . go through airport security
After I. . . go to a medical appointment
After I. . . go to the bathroom
After I. . . grab you contact case (before putt in/tak out).
After I. . . had handled cash
After I. . . had touched your mouth
After I. . . hand over money...
After I. . . handl pet food, pet treats, or animal waste
After I. . . handle money or credit cards
After I. . . handle raw meat
After I. . . handshake with someone
After I. . . hang up your coat.
After I. . . have been in a wait room (of any kind)
After I. . . have been to a church service
After I. . . have cleared customs/security
After I. . . have collected your baggage
After I. . . have come in to close contact with people/the public
After I. . . have finished walk the dog
After I. . . have handed a credit card to someone and get it back and have put it away
After I. . . have picked up food/drinks from a drive-through
After I. . . have signed into a dr.’s (or any) appointment (us their pen)
After I. . . have taken a journey on public transport
After I. . . leave a doctor's office
After I. . . leave a movie theater
After I. . . leave a restaurant
After I. . . leave a sport event
After I. . . leave any public place
After I. . . leave the doctors office
After I. . . leave the grocery store or any store
After I. . . leave the library (if, like ours, the bathroom is on the outside)
After I. . . look over the food delivered to your table...
After I. . . make food
After I. . . open a common door to enter a build (like an office or university build)
After I. . . open a door with your hands
After I. . . open the refrigerator at work . . .
After I. . . order your food at the restaurant.
After I. . . pass the collection plate at church.
After I. . . pay at the store ( supermarket)
After I. . . pay for park . . .
After I. . . payed with cash
After I. . . pet one of your pets...
After I. . . physical contact with others
After I. . . pick up dog poop
After I. . . pick up your mail at work ...
After I. . . play a sport (like basketball)
After I. . . play with a baby
After I. . . play with shared toys at playgroup
After I. . . played cards with your friends
After I. . . practice piano at the practice room at the university
After I. . . pull in the chair at a table in a restaurant
After I. . . pump gas
After I. . . push a shopping cart
After I. . . put away your dishes from lunch...
After I. . . put down your backpack.
After I. . . put money in your wallet.
After I. . . put my backpack in my locker
After I. . . put my bag down com into the house
After I. . . put the garbage down the chute (apartment dwellers) ...
After I. . . put your bag down when arrive at work
After I. . . put your school bag in the cloakroom
After I. . . reach any place
After I. . . read a library/borrowed book
After I. . . read magazines or pamphlets at the medical office
After I. . . read the mail and have discarded or recycled envelopes
After I. . . receive any product exchange (from baristas, fast food windows, vendors, etc)
After I. . . receive deliveries...
After I. . . receive money and close your wallet...
After I. . . return home with the children
After I. . . ride your bicycle
After I. . . rub your eyes or massage your temple...
After I. . . say goodbye to visitors
After I. . . say shake hands with a customer goodbye
After I. . . see your hands are visibly dirty
After I. . . set my backpack in its cupboard/hang it on its hook school
After I. . . sitt down at a conference table . . .
After I. . . sitt down in a theater . . . (this would involve us hand sanitizer)
After I. . . sneeze, cough, spit, or otherwise touch your own bodily fluids.
After I. . . socialising
After I. . . someone around you coughs or sneezes.
After I. . . someone handed you their phone
After I. . . someone hands you back your own phone
After I. . . take a mint from the office candy jar
After I. . . take my books out of my locker
After I. . . take off your shoes/touch your shoes,
After I. . . touch a common surface (door knob/handle, handrail, etc.)
After I. . . touch a counter and leav a place of business
After I. . . touch a doorknob or handle that is not in your home
After I. . . touch a handrail that is not in your home
After I. . . touch a menu
After I. . . touch a public table (like in a food court).
After I. . . touch a shopp cart
After I. . . touch any condiments ie s&p shakers, ketchup, mustard
After I. . . touch anyone’s bodily fluids (similar to ads/hv prevention)
After I. . . touch buttons in elevators.
After I. . . touch computer keyboards.
After I. . . touch food
After I. . . touch public surfaces such as door handles, rails, elevator buttons, credit card machines etc.
After I. . . touch walk buttons to cross the street...
After I. . . touch your face
After I. . . touch your feet (says my 6 year old)
After I. . . touch your nose, mouth or eyes
After I. . . touch/sign a credit card machine . . .
After I. . . treat a wound
After I. . . try to wash my hands at work any time get coffee because there’s a sink next to all the coffee makers
After I. . . tuck your kids into bed
After I. . . turn on the light in your bathroom to start your nightly routine...
After I. . . us a community copier . . .
After I. . . using a community stapler . . .
After I. . . using a shared computer at work
After I. . . using classroom desks, chairs, tables, supplies, shared books
After I. . . using coin operated park meters
After I. . . using office phones
After I. . . using park benches and apparatus (slides, sws, etc for children)
After I. . . using pedestrian cross buttons
After I. . . using the bathroom or help a child use the bathroom
After I. . . use a keyboard (esp someone else's)
After I. . . use a pinpad/signature pen at a store
After I. . . use a playground
After I. . . use a tissue.
After I. . . use an atm
After I. . . use community serv spoons at a salad bar.
After I. . . use the communal microwave in the lunch room
After I. . . walk in the bathroom to floss your teeth/brush your teeth...
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