Portable Sinks For Daycare & Classrooms

The importance of hand washing is often taught at a young age – and for a good reason too. Proper hand washing in daycares and early childhood educational facilities helps to protect against the spread of many illnesses including the common cold. It’s estimated that the common cold is responsible for 22 million lost school days annually. In daycares hand washing also acts as a great first line of defense from more serious illnesses including: meningitis, hepatitis A, flu, and most types of infectious diarrhea. One of the biggest benefits of a daycare portable sink is to bring high quality handwashing to areas where it is needed most.

Since germs are transmitted in many different ways within a daycare, a child’s height portable hand wash sink helps to clean hands from germs spread through contaminated surfaces, contact with a sick child’s body fluids, contaminated water or food, and dirty hands from general playing within the facility or classroom. Often times kids come into contact with germs and unknowingly become infected from touching their eyes, nose or mouth.d

With the help of a portable daycare sink, handwashing can be readily available wherever and whenever it is needed. By keeping handwashing in the daycare classroom, it is easy for a child to wash his or her hands without having to leave the room and thus saving a separate trip to the restroom. Overall, self-contained child height sinks are a convenient way for children to keep their hands clean and stay healthy.