Bill Marler, founder of the Marler-Clark legal firm, outlines the new food safety risk factors to Jim Mann, Executive Director of the Handwashing For Life Institute. New search technologies, like whole genome sequencing, multiply the effectiveness of the CDC’s Pulse-Net in tracking outbreaks back to their source. Coupled with this change, the government is amping […]
A New Handwash to Celebrate World Hand Hygiene Day
The SaniTwice® Protocol is a Special Friend of Bedridden Patients First developed for the military, this two-step, cleanse-sanitize, protocol has found many applications in water-scarce situations beyond the deserts of the Middle East where it was first deployed. The latest “desert” is the bed of the bedridden patient – at home, in hospitals, rehab centers, and nursing […]
SaniTwice® Celebrating 10th Anniversary
The Celebration “Bookend” posters have been created to mark two important milestones. In 2006 a new hand hygiene protocol came onto the USA food safety scene from its original military use in the Middle-East, Jordan to be specific. http://handwashingforlife.com/handsonsystem/sanitwice In 2016, after garnering another research accolade, the innovation team will again look to the CFP […]
Visualization & Personalization Drive Handwashing Improvements
Germ theory comes to life by visualization and personalization of the poorly washed hand. A visual feedback explains why hands must be washed at least 10 seconds and preferably 15 or 20, depending on the contamination and the physical condition of the people under their care. This is the advantage in using the ProGrade Scorecard […]
Patient Safety Awareness Week Pearl!
Authored by Dr. Will Sawyer – Founder, Henry the Hand Foundation 1 in 4 seniors have superbugs on their hands after a hospital stay I thought it appropriate to share the impact of poor hand hygiene resulting in HAIs, in hospitals. And a brief inclusion of other non-HAI Hand Hygiene issues in every community; Norovirus, […]
Handwashing: Data to the Rescue
Electronic monitoring of handwashing reveals the risky reality. Suspected low handwashing rates are increasingly being confirmed with the aid of electronics. Potential brand-damaging outbreaks threaten restaurants and healthcare foodservice but this recurring under-washed condition is rarely the topic of C-Suite discussions. Foodservice and Healthcare share a concern about handwashing and both consistently look to in-service training to […]
Data-Driven Brand Protection From Norovirus
Workshop to raise handwashing to Patient-Safe standard Healthcare handwashing mirrors the data-short Restaurant issue. Handwashing For Life’s research stretches from the watershed event of the early 1990s, the Jack-In-The-Box outbreak, to today’s Chipotle issues. The most consistent shortcoming in those 23 years, including these bookend events, is the lack of data for operators to invest […]
Hospitals: 99,000 & Long-Term Care: 380,000
This headline is the CDC estimate of deaths caused by Healthcare Acquired Infections (HAI). They are rarely added. The math is easy, 479,000. The solution apparently is not.When 100 people acquire a norovirus infection it makes front page news yet 479,000 annual HAI deaths goes by unnoticed. Here is another way to look at the […]
Support for SaniTwice Protocol
Fight Bac! webinar carries efficacy message to consumers Hand Hygiene: Efficacy Update and Educator Tools was the title of Fight Bac!’s webinar where academia checked in on the value of SaniTwice® in water-scarce situations commonly facing the away-from-home public. These include outdoor fairs, sporting events and petting zoos. Dr. Don Schaffner, a Distinguished Professor at […]
SaniTwice® – A Process Registration
Lesson learned from IAFP. Preparation for CFP. The SaniTwice® protocol is back in the news as the results of recent research in produce fields reaches farms, processors and restaurants. All markets are cleared and encouraged to use this process and its name without any royalties, much like the IAFP food safety icons are protected yet […]
