A trail of risk on the final phase from farm to fork More than a single moment, consider the patient protection value of the collective handwashes from the kitchen to the bed tray. Handwashing For Life Healthcare considers all those washes as one, the 6th Moment™, a reminder that all the patient room precautions can […]
Caring for Caring Hands
The plight of the over-washed under-cleaned hand Caregivers value clean hands in their mission to help heal the vulnerable patients and residents they serve. Nurse Assistants may free their hands of microbes 50 -100+ times per day with well over half during their 8 hour shift. Stripping hands of pathogens with soap simultaneously strips the […]
The Easy-Clean Hand
Why Women Win Competitive Handwashing Events Are women better hand washers? No. Do women have cleaner hands? Yes, provided they lose the hand-bling and the artificial nails. Handwashing For Life has witnessed and judged thousands of handwashes under competitive conditions. The contest is known best as the Handwashing Olympics. GlitterBug UV lotion is applied to […]
Trains, Planes & Cruise Liners
The Case for Obsessive Hand Hygiene Travelers are herded into shared spaces and exposed to each other’s profile of pathogens hour after hour. A quick turn-around of the plane, train or cruiser leaves a residual base of germs to build on and the recharging of these reservoirs starts again. There is one universal precaution that […]
“Clean Hands. Save Lives.”
Unchanged behavior from Chicago to Sierra Leone. “Clean Hands. Save Lives.” is the mantra of the CDC fostered Clean Hands Coalition, who today are joining the World Health Organization and Handwashing For Life Healthcare to celebrate World Health Day. The day started with a very informative webinar, “Healing Hands” sponsored by the Global Public-Private Partnership […]
Handwash Monitoring Wins NSF Leadership Award
Chef Peter Fulgenzi awarded for innovative process-control “In presenting these awards, we honor the winners for their contributions to food safety and the protection of public health…” said Kevan P. Lawlor, NSF International President, and Chief Executive Officer. “Peter’s work has proven to be a model, lighting the path for both operators and new technology […]
Handwashing: Why Monitor?
Legal action lerks with every meal prepared or served away from home. If a foodservice company or institution agrees with the CDC that handwashing is the #1 intervention to prevent the spread of outbreak-causing pathogens, they should act now to: determine their current compliance rates, “Relax or resolve.” identify and verbalize the associated risk, “Know […]
Franchisee vs. Headquarters
Who owns the low-handwashing problem in chain restaurants? Handwashing frequency is often less than desirable in most all restaurants with workers seeing little reason to wash more often and claiming to have little time as customer service trumps clean hands. Training helps but improvements don’t endure. Quality Assurance doesn’t have a handwashing system to monitor. […]
The HACCP/HARPC-Hands Scoreboard
The Remedy for Stored-data Concerns The Handwashing For Life HACCP/HARPC-Hands Scoreboard is a component of EHHM, Electronic Hand Hygiene Monitoring. It is the scoreboard screen or marquee positioned in clear view of the kitchen and wait-staff work stations to assure the food handling team of their current handwashing performance that they are on pace to […]
Matching Risk With Regimen
The multi-tasker’s handwash Handsinks are plentiful in healthcare facilities. They seem like they are everywhere until you need one and you: don’t want to leave the patient’s bedside. want to complete a conversation at the nurse’s station. are pushing a wheelchair and don’t want to leave the patient’s side. are on a patio without a […]
