Practicing proper hygiene is very essential in the maintenance of health and prevention of spread of diseases. Hygiene should be prioritized on every man's scale of preferences. Let's observe and practice these hygienic habits in the dormitory for good healthy living and disease prevention:
Personal hygiene
Personal hygiene in key for staying healthy at dormitory. We should take good care of our body because it is the only place we live in.
Regular Hand-washing
Most germs are transmitted through common encounters like shaking someone’s hand, touching a door knob, handling money and other countless unconscious actions. Protect yourself and prevent any sickness by washing your hands with soap and running water regularly; after returning from class, before and after each meals, after a workout session and after visiting the washroom.
Food Hygiene
Food hygiene is concerned with the hygiene practices that prevent food poisoning. In theory, food poisoning is 100% preventable. However, this cannot be achieved due to the number of persons involved in the supply chain, as well as the fact that pathogens can be introduced into foods no matter how many precautions are taken. Some key principles of food hygiene are:
Prevent contaminating food with mixing chemicals, spreading from people, and animals.
Separate raw and cooked foods to prevent contaminating the cooked foods.
Do not risk your academic goals with alcohol.
Cook foods for the appropriate length of time and at the appropriate temperature to kill pathogens.
Store food at the proper temperature.
Use safe water and raw materials.
Room Hygiene
Ensuring proper ventilation
Practice sanitation by opening windows of the rooms frequently to ventilate the room and prevent bad smell and maintain good room temperature.
Cleaning Refrigerators
Refrigerators serve the purpose of slowing down bacteria infection. Students often store perishable food in refrigerators which at the long run, can cause food-borne illness without proper care. Let's make it a deliberate habit to clean the refrigerator regularly.
Washing of bed linens
It is very important to wash the bed sheets, pillows and comforters regularly. Bed mites (dust mites) are common allergens that love dark environment like mattress, pillows etc. Prevent bed mite’s infestation and rashes by setting aside at least a day as a laundry day for cleaning our bed linens including clothes in hot water with laundry detergent each week.
Ensuring proper disposal of refuses
Waste materials can harbor bacteria and germs which can cause disease infection causing jeopardy to our health. We should halt the habit of leaving opened containers and leftovers within the room else, we run the risk of opening up to germs, bacteria and pests like rodents, cockroaches and other creatures. We ensure proper disposal of waste materials at least once a week.
Washing of utensils
Keeping washrooms and kitchens clean always.
Sweeping and wiping floor of rooms frequently.
Point of information:
The new dormitory checking routing is going to be proceed once a month by a special team of ISA members. This dormitory checking will be marked according to the observation of the monitor.
The next best room award will from now be giving to the deserving room according to the average of the points received by the room during the checking.
Every repairing of the room or kitchen items are totally free and the user is only requested to pay when the item is been damage due to carelessness of the user.
