Cleanliness is a Powerful Message of Customer Care Customers are increasingly seeing restroom cleanliness as an indicator of the organization’s culture and the reflection of their true customer care. It is proving to be one of the best spaces to invest in customer loyalty.
A Chef’s View on Values of Cleanliness
Not everyone treats kitchen cleanliness as a cost. Some leading chefs consider it the foundation of their culture of cleanliness where creativity, quality and efficiency generate the prime revenue of returning customers. High standards translate to the staff’s professional pride and unquestioned compliance with accountabilities.
Glove Changing at Catered Events
This portable no-water “hand sink” has added an important gloving feature. This unit can now be located exactly where it is most needed and most likely used. There is no need to delay changing a contaminated or torn pair of gloves. There is no need to leave the work station unguarded while taking a hike […]
Choose Your Handwashing Regimen Carefully
Risk-based handwashing choices are infinite Looking at your various workstations in your operation is it a one-size-fits-all when it comes time to specify your standard protocols? Protocols from which flow your staff training and process control considerations.
Resolving The Inherent Conflict Between Innovation and The Model Food Code
Public health needs should set the pace for codification.Once a public health driven need is identified, local resources seek solutions, often with supplier partners. Concept prototypes and programs are developed. Costly research is often involved and manufacturers seek patent protection to make this investment worthwhile. This factor looms large as some links in the chain […]
Single-Glove Dispensing Introduced
Gloving innovation passes pre-market trials Waste in terms of lost donning time and “multi-pull” losses are answered with a new generation of single-use gloves.
Holiday Catered Norovirus
Outbreak Sickens 75 at Minnesota Banquet Might the norovirus have entered the catered event via an ill worker, perhaps symptom-free? Or a guest? Or from contact with a high-touch surface contaminated the week before? One surefire added intervention to protect public health is the expanded use of a norovirus effective alcohol hand sanitizer. The Venetian […]
Kindling a Culture of Cleanliness
Come Compete in the Handwashing For Life Olympics Handwashing For Life® overcomes underwashing of hands and high-touch surfaces by integrating a series of best practices. At the Food Safety Consortium, being staged at the Schaumburg Conference Center, on December 4th & 5th, attendees will learn how to assess their hand hygiene-related risks and assemble a […]
Handwashing For Life Olympics
Convert Training to Fun and Improved Hand Cleanliness The Food Safety Consortium is your next opportunity to enter the official Handwashing For Life Olympics. It will be staged at the Schaumburg Illinois convention center on December 4th and 5th. Contestants will learn a new handwash protocol that promotes effective results – without singing “happy birthday” […]
Norovirus: The Killer & The Cures
Norovirus is not thought of as being a killer nor is it considered long-lived on surfaces. Both are wrong and risky. In the U.S., the virus causes 19-21 million illnesses, 56,000-71,000 hospitalizations and 570-800 deaths.
