No Water, No Wash, No Problem The use (and misuse) of hand sanitizers has exploded with the onslaught of Coronavirus. Its convenience factor plus CDC, NIH, and FDA support have driven its application to new heights in away-from-home settings. It may well prove to be the #1 intervention for this virus as two of the […]
FDA’s “Smarter Food Safety” Calls For Motivating Better Behaviors
Handwashing Metrics Can Power a Food Safety Culture The unveiling of FDA’s blueprint for The New Era Of Smarter Food Safety raises the hope and probability for meeting the public’s expectation for safer food. Frank Yiannas’s experiences from Disney to Walmart to the FDA are now shaping up to a well-conceived, risked-based food safety program […]
International Clean Hands Week
September 20-26, 2020 Please join this annual campaign, sponsored by the CDC facilitated Clean Hands Coalition. Raise awareness of the dangers of poor hand hygiene. Check out a variety of ideas to improve the away-from-home wellness factor in everyone’s life. Clean hands are the cure to the spread of colds, the flu, and those illnesses […]
Reopening Restaurants with Digital Handwashing
The COVID-19 lockdown and subsequent reopening scheduled have raised the bar on restaurant cleanliness, especially hand cleanliness. Operators are filling their entryways with hand sanitizer dispensers as one might expect following all the public briefings by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. But there is also unexpected use of technology that even the CDC […]
Handwashing Verification Will Be Key
Handwashing Transparency in Restaurant Reopening Coronavirus’s training of the public in pathogen transmission has created an added factor in assessing restaurant quality, the hand hygiene factor. They expect to see hand sanitizers readily accessible and used frequently by staff and guests. Handwashing by kitchen staff in the prep areas and their handwashing restroom behaviors are […]
Better Handwashing 101
Measurement is Key for Quality and Frequency Training Handwashing in this post-COVID-19 era is a higher valued event in protecting caregivers, patients, the dining public and their food prep/serve team. Rebuilding public trust in their organizations is a common goal. Protocols are matched to the risk. Their effectiveness is at the heart of the ProGrade™ […]
Trust In The Post-Coronavirus Era
Restaurant brand-building in 2020/21 Trust will likely be the primary driver that brings the public back to restaurant eating during the post-peak tail of the COVID-19 Pandemic. Differentiators will be those that actively display the operator’s and staff’s true caring and process control. In the case of restaurants, consumers are generally relying on the restaurant […]
The Core Handwash Poster
This poster is a no-charge download, designed as a training aid and a daily reminder of a more professional and productive 20-second handwash. The sequence listed in step #3 converts the mindless passing of time method to a make-sense increase in friction. This change also encourages the caregiver to think of handwashing as a process […]
Pneumonia
Pneumonia is an infection seeded in many other infections. It has more than 30 causes and kills 50,000 persons a year. The coronavirus, COVID-19, develops into its own variation of pneumonia, one of many that are not protected by the pneumonia vaccine. Photo by CDC on Unsplash
Handwashing Innovator Speaks Out on COVID-19
Dr. Emily Landon, the infectious disease doctor at the University of Chicago Medical Center, has spent most of the last decade improving hospital handwashing using data to motivate staff. Here she clearly explains Social Distancing and its critical nature in slowing the COVID-19 cases to a level that can be managed with available hospital beds […]
