Most of us will have to use Public Toilets at some stage and I'm sure that all OLOs wash their hands before leaving the facilities.
Not everyone is as fastidious as us and the door handle that one has to grasp to get out of most Public Toilets may well be contaminated by unwashed hands.

Why are the doors on such places nearly always inwards opening so that one must pull them to get out?

Oh dear....its must be bed time:)....

Kat

Is Mise,
because if the are outward opening you'd have to pull them to get in. :-)
This is really tough, the Government should so something so that any user will not have to dirty their handkerchief so as not to get their hands dirty. On the other hand we could demand the Government provides handkerchiefs. Or the Government could provide ......

Indi,
Fair go, Is Mse did not say anything about the government providing anything.

Shopping centres do have badly designed toilets and the way doors operate is just one issue. A better design is one that does not require doors and the user negotiates a short Maze at the entrance.

It seems the developers get away with just the bare minimum to pass regulations and often locate toilets in the most out of way positions.

Not long ago I was in a large Target store that was not in a shopping centre but had a street frontage. Staff informed me there was not toilets for customers and the closest was a KFC almost a block away. I will not go back to that shop.

With all the doors and shopping trolleys and ATMs that one handles, it is not unreasonable to expect convenient hand washing facilities, before dining in the 'food court'.

Little wonder that people pick up and pass on bugs so easily.

Seems that on OLO we may have a few closet non-hand washers.

Or, if you are concerned about germs (which I'm not) you can for a few dollars buy some antiseptic wipes so you can wipe your hands once you get back to your car, or go on your way.

This way, for one persons very small outlay, we can direct our taxes to what most of us would consider to be far more important priorities.