sanitation practices
Public health measures
Sanitation practices are the methods and habits used to maintain cleanliness and prevent disease—proper waste disposal, handwashing, food handling, and water treatment.
The term appears in public health contexts, workplace regulations, and development work: The organization trained villagers in basic sanitation practices.
Restaurant inspectors check sanitation practices in commercial kitchens.
- handwashingCleaning palms with soap
- bathingImmersion for cleanliness
- chlorinationDisinfecting with a halogen
- garbage collectionScheduled waste removal service
- waste disposalRemoving and processing garbage
soap and water · latrines · drain cleaning · street cleaning · composting · oral hygiene · sewage treatment · filtration · pest control · menstrual hygiene · boiling water · quarantine measures · recycling · incineration · toilets · disinfection · typhoid · hazardous waste disposal
sanitation practicescontamination
Introduction of impurities
pollution · poor hygiene · filth · fouling · squalor
sanitation practicesdisease vectors
Organisms spreading pathogens between hosts
cross-contamination · health hazards · toxic exposure · medical negligence