Alcohol-free hand sanitiser is a hand-hygiene product that disinfects without alcohol, so it carries no ingestion, fire or contraband risk. The right one is independently tested to and passes the recognised European hygiene standards, including the sporicidal and virucidal standards covering C. difficile and norovirus, the pathogens alcohol gel misses.
Alcohol gel is the clinical default, but in alcohol-restricted environments the regulator has flagged it as a danger, and everywhere it leaves the pathogens that close wards, homes and classrooms untouched.
Alcohol-based hand gel is a documented poisoning and ingestion hazard. UK enquiries to the National Poisons Information Service about hand sanitiser rose sharply over a single year, and coroners' reports record deaths from ingestion in confused and detained people. NHS England now requires alcohol gel to be stored securely on mental-health wards as a direct result.
It is also a highly flammable liquid that carries fire, self-harm and contraband risk into secure and supervised settings. That is why UKHSA restricts wall-mounted alcohol rub in prisons, and why estates teams must risk-assess it under COSHH and DSEAR before it goes on a wall.
And it leaves a gap. Alcohol gel does not kill norovirus, the pathogen that most often closes wards, homes and classrooms, and it has no activity against C. difficile spores. The official advice when these are circulating is to fall back to soap and water. The everyday tool is not covering the everyday threat.
You get both at once: broad-spectrum protection that covers the pathogens alcohol leaves behind, and an alcohol-free formulation that removes the ingestion, fire and contraband risk.
Alcohol-free hand sanitiser of this grade is independently tested to and passes the recognised European hygiene standards, including the sporicidal and virucidal standards that cover C. difficile and norovirus, the pathogens alcohol gel does not touch. So it closes the spectrum gap rather than living with it.
And because there is no alcohol, there is no ingestion-toxicity pathway, no flammability and no contraband concern, the exact failure modes that make alcohol gel unsafe in mental-health, custodial, care and education settings. It is gentle enough for the constant, repeated hand hygiene these settings demand, so it supports compliance. It complements soap and water where hands are visibly soiled, in line with national infection-control guidance. One accountable partner specifies it for your setting and stands behind the evidence.
Broad-spectrum protection, independently tested to and passing the sporicidal and virucidal standards for C. difficile and norovirus, the pathogens alcohol gel cannot touch.
No alcohol means no ingestion-toxicity or intoxication pathway, the documented danger that led NHS England to mandate secured gel storage on mental-health wards.
Alcohol-free and non-flammable, so it removes a highly flammable substance from secure, supervised and high-occupancy settings, and simplifies your COSHH and DSEAR position.
An option for the wards, wings, homes and classrooms where alcohol-based products are restricted or prohibited, so you can sustain hand hygiene without carrying the hazard.
Kind to skin for hand hygiene done dozens of times a day, supporting compliance and reducing the occupational dermatitis that frequent alcohol use drives.
Independently tested results, against named recognised standards, to put in front of an inspector and into your assurance file.
Independently tested to and passing the standards alcohol cannot meet.
Three fair questions from any infection-control or estates team, with straight answers to all three.
It is independently tested to and passes the recognised European hygiene standards, including the sporicidal and virucidal standards that cover C. difficile and norovirus, so it closes the gap alcohol gel leaves rather than matching it. It is alcohol-free, so it removes the ingestion, fire and contraband hazards the regulator has flagged. We start with a trial in one setting, ward, wing, home or site, and prove the fit in your own environment. Soap and water remains the standard for visibly soiled hands, as it should.
It is a hand-hygiene product that disinfects without alcohol, so it carries no ingestion, fire or contraband risk. The grade we specify is independently tested to and passes the recognised European hygiene standards, including the sporicidal and virucidal standards covering C. difficile and norovirus.
The right one is. It is independently tested to and passes the recognised European hygiene standards, including the sporicidal and virucidal standards that cover C. difficile and norovirus. It closes the spectrum gap alcohol gel leaves, rather than matching it.
In the settings where alcohol-based products are restricted, prohibited or a liability: mental-health and psychiatric wards, prisons and custody, social care around vulnerable residents, and schools and SEND settings. It lets these settings sustain hand hygiene without carrying the alcohol hazard.
It depends on the setting. In most clinical settings alcohol gel is fine. In alcohol-restricted environments it is a documented hazard, a poisoning and ingestion risk, a flammable liquid and a contraband concern, and it still does not kill norovirus or C. difficile spores. Alcohol-free hand sanitiser is for exactly those settings, and it covers that gap.
Yes. It is designed for the very high-frequency hand hygiene these settings demand, and being alcohol-free it avoids the cumulative skin damage that frequent alcohol gel use causes and that erodes compliance.
No. National infection-control guidance is clear that soap and water is used when hands are visibly soiled or when caring for people with diarrhoea and vomiting. Alcohol-free hand sanitiser complements that standard, it does not override it.
Yes, that is what it is built for. It removes the ingestion, intoxication and flammability concerns that make alcohol-based products unsafe around vulnerable, confused or detained people, and it is gentle enough for constant use, so it suits mental-health, custodial, care and education environments.
Tell us where alcohol-based sanitiser is letting you down on safety, fire risk or spectrum. We will set up a trial in one setting and prove the fit in your own environment.
Tell us the cost, the risk or the obligation you are facing. A senior member of our team will respond, in confidence, with how we would help.
