hygiene
Let an agent share sourced hygiene guidance, support settings such as food businesses and care homes with official rules, and avoid shaming language.
Bundle → Layer → Finding → Questions Filled
4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions
Personal Everyday hygiene.
Hands
Hand washing.
Hands
Hand hygiene.
- How should hands be washed, according to health authorities? provenance
- When is sanitiser a suitable alternative? provenance
Oral
Teeth.
Oral
Oral hygiene.
- What oral hygiene routine do dental bodies recommend? provenance
- Is the user asking about a specific dental problem? boundary
Food Food hygiene.
Home
Kitchen.
Home
Home food hygiene.
- How can cross-contamination be avoided in the kitchen? provenance
- What temperatures matter? measurement
Business
Food businesses.
Business
Food business rules.
- Which hygiene rules and inspections apply to food businesses here? provenance
- How can a hygiene rating be checked? provenance
Settings Workplaces and care.
Work
Workplaces.
Work
Workplace hygiene.
- Which hygiene rules apply in this workplace? provenance
- Who is responsible? provenance
Chemicals
Cleaning safety.
Chemicals
Cleaning chemicals.
- Is someone mixing cleaning products or feeling unwell from fumes? boundary
- Should they get fresh air and contact a poison centre or emergency services? action
Access Water and dignity.
Water
Water and sanitation.
Water
Water and sanitation.
- Where can people without facilities access water, toilets or showers? provenance
- Which services help? provenance
Menstrual
Menstrual products.
Menstrual
Menstrual hygiene.
- Where can free menstrual products be accessed here? provenance
- Is the language respectful and non-stigmatising? boundary
Classifiers Filled
- Family
- Thing Registry
- Category
- Information and virtual systems
- Entry kind
- thing
- Plane
- INF
- Domain
- INF.KNW
- Other names and narrower kinds
- paper napkin, Lito, napkin, Napkin folding, hygiene science, veterinary hygiene, zoohygiene, tropical medicine and hygiene, occupational health and safety, foot care, personal hygiene, environmental hygiene
What it is Filled
Practices and conditions that help maintain health and prevent the spread of disease, such as hand washing, food hygiene, oral hygiene, menstrual hygiene, safe water and sanitation, and cleaning of environments, applied to people, animals and workplaces.
Why it exists Filled
Let an agent share sourced hygiene guidance, support settings such as food businesses and care homes with official rules, and avoid shaming language.
Distinguishing features Filled
- Preventive
- Evidence-based practices
- Personal and environmental
- Regulated in some settings
What robots and AI may and may not do Filled
Must not
- Advise mixing cleaning chemicals such as bleach and ammonia.
- Use stigmatising language about people's hygiene, especially people who are homeless or ill.
- Present unproven cleaning products as protecting against disease.
- Ignore food or water hygiene rules in a setting it operates in.
Only with a human decision
- Declaring a space or food safe after an outbreak.
May
- Explain hygiene practices with sources from public health bodies.
- Remind people of hygiene steps they have asked it to track, such as hand washing or cleaning schedules.
Moral aspects Filled
- Hygiene saves lives, but access to water, sanitation and menstrual products is unequal.
- Shaming people over hygiene compounds poverty and illness.
Who is affected
- People without safe water and sanitation
- Patients and care home residents
- Food consumers
Owners Filled
Steward
Everyone keeps their own hygiene; public health authorities set rules for food, care and workplaces.
Links to other meta-models Filled
parent
- Q1773974 - registry parent class
- Q19374090 - registry parent class
related
- preventive medicine - category
- hand washing - practice
- sanitation - infrastructure
- food hygiene law - regulation
What else AI and robots need to interact with it Filled
Identity and identifiers required Filled
- Vercy registry: vr.tr.hygiene
- Wikidata: Q162297 (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q162297)
Direct properties not applicable Not applicable
Not applicable
Plane INF: no invented physical properties.
Recognition optional Filled
- Hand washing stations and sanitiser
- Food hygiene rating certificates
- Cosmetic grooming is broader than hygiene
- Hand washing, cleaning products, sanitisers, clean kitchens and sanitation facilities.
Capabilities and actions required Filled
- find hand hygiene and food hygiene guidance
- find workplace hygiene rules
- find access to water and sanitation services
- handle hygiene topics respectfully
Hazards and failure modes required Filled
- Infection outbreaks
- Mixing cleaning chemicals such as bleach and ammonia
- Stigmatising language
Standards and interfaces required Filled
- WHO guidelines on hand hygiene
- EU Regulation 852/2004 on food hygiene
- Workplace health and safety rules
Context of use required Filled
- Preventing infection and maintaining health.
- hand hygiene
- food hygiene
- oral hygiene
- menstrual hygiene
- environmental and veterinary hygiene
Sources Filled
- Wikidata item Q162297: hygiene - identity and sense of the item
- Wikipedia: Hygiene - general description of the item
Open questions
- Should hygiene areas be separate entries?
- How should local rules be linked?
- How should water and sanitation data be linked?
Machine files
Provenance
thing registry research (pass 2) · unreviewed
Built from: models/things/publications/thing-q162297/spec.json