September 14-20, 2025 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 acquired […]
New Handwashing Evidence: No Soap, No Water, No Worry!
The FDA’s Conference For Food Protection will meet in Denver, March 24-28, 2025 to evaluate proposed updates to its Model Food Code. Delegates will consider adding two additional handwash methods derived from this research. Research confirms alcohol hand sanitizer in medium to light soil is superior to soap water handwashes. Column A illustrates the effectiveness […]
Hand Sanitizer: “You Missed a Spot!”
Avoiding the Hyper-speed “Handwash” The hands of Healthcare and Foodservice workers are contaminated frequently, calling for high-frequency handwashing. This is the wheelhouse of ABHS, Alcohol Based Hand Sanitizer. In most scenarios, it provides a highly effective alternative to time-consuming soap/water washes. In Foodservice, thanks to the onslaught of Coronavirus, ABHS is increasingly made available to […]
Workforce Diversity Drives Language-Free Handwash Training Success. Free Access Announced.
Engage kitchen staff with the WHY … without words. The kitchen culture successfully drives handwashing compliance once it understands the WHY of frequent handwashing. Two decades ago Handwashing For Life took on the challenge to motivate food-worker handwashing. They choose to acknowledge the reality of language limitations and time. This resulted in a new standard […]
“Take The Guessing Out…” of Handwash Compliance
Voice Recognition Credits Individual Employee Performance Thanks to COVID, restaurants are rushing to automate all things related to customer and employee health. This is accelerating the installation of “no-touch” technologies from smart soap/sanitizer dispensers to self-powered electronic faucets: This situation has opened the door for software to verify employee handwash compliance: Handwashing retains its CDC […]
Virtual Restaurant Inspections
Advantages of Scheduled Inspections Re-emerge Virtual restaurant inspections are a current reality and have been since March, 2020, as reported during an NRA sponsored webinar presentation by Sandra Long, Environmental Manager in Addison Texas. She speaks of its many advantages, starting with the scheduling to be sure the right people are available and all are […]
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 […]
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 […]
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
