Our single task is to get these machines removed from use.
Dryer users have limited access to the courts. You have numbers and persistence instead.
Let's make the dryers toxic to the owners who provide them instead of the users who are subjected to them.
We give you a hand dryer cheat sheet to show owners what their machines are doing, and we ask for your help building a public record.
Courts limit dryer user access by arguing you have not been harmed, while providing paths for those who purchased them to sue for redress. Without significant financial resources it is difficult to get through that barrier. The dryer companies and the certifiers who validate them survive because it is nearly impossible to build a direct line from your use of one machine to an illness you get later. We have spent three years scientifically constructing that bridge — but the courts will not recognize it without sophisticated, expensive legal action most people cannot mount. A lawsuit was never the only way to win. You have power the courts can't give and can't take away.
You didn't choose this. You trusted the claim that these machines were efficient, clean, and safe. They are installed where you work, where you eat, where you take your children. They spray water all over the room and the user, and everyone treats it as normal. It is bizarre. Dryers take eight to ten times longer to dry hands than claimed, requiring eight to ten times more energy and carbon. They amplify room-air contamination by 49 to 110 times and spray it onto your hands and into the room. They grow mold on the wall beneath them. You became the test subject, and no one asked. See how dryers fail →
The manufacturer is the easy and proper target. They built the machine and the claims that came with it.
Less obvious are the certifiers and testing companies that have validated these machines since 2007: a mark from UL Solutions, NSF, SGS, or SmartEPD, the companies a reasonable person trusts to make sure a product does what it claims and is safe. They set the standards, ran the tests, and stamped the mark you trusted every time you walked into that restroom. They are not bystanders.
We have spent three years building a growing body of primary evidence. Take our evidence and make yourself heard, then join us by giving us your own. The more of us who document what these machines do, the harder they are for purchasers to keep on the wall.
226 restrooms across five states. 169 dryers. 462 drying trials. 1,076 culture dishes, counting approximately 50,000 bacterial and fungal colonies by hand. Primary evidence no one can wave away, gathered one restroom at a time.
Every paper in the literature. Every standard. Hundreds of hours inside the manufacturers' and certifiers' own documents and marketing — where every claim lives, and where every claim fails.
White paper towels tested in public restrooms consistently approach sterility. In 58 trials we found white towels almost bacteria-free, unlike brown paper towels that test contaminated. Offer owners a solution that fits neatly over the spot where the dryer sits.
The photo from your restroom. The story from your shift. The complaint to the owner who installed it. Each one is small; together they make the machine a liability its owner can no longer afford.
You don't need a lawyer, a budget, or permission. You need the facts and a little persistence.
Not with one lawsuit, but with tens of thousands of people who stopped believing the claim — who warned the people they love, handed the manager the facts, and refused to be the test subject any longer.
contact@forensicdryergroup.comThe findings cited here are documented across eleven journal preprints with DOIs deposited at Zenodo (CERN) and the Harvard Dataverse. Full data and sources at www.handdryerstudy.com; the complaints at handdryerlegal.com.