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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Coronavirus: The Good News
Our Top 10 handwashing behaviors to beat COVID-19 … and next year’s mutationsEclipsed by Coronavirus media exaggerations and unforgivable politicalization, are the benefits of the public’s emerging better behaviors regarding hand cleanliness. The legacy of the Coronavirus outbreak in the USA is likely to be that it saved more lives than those lost to COVID-19. […]
Pre-Coronavirus Handwashing Investments Pay Off
Handwashing transparency valued by Millennials Those foodservice operators who invested in handwash monitoring because of Norovirus concerns now add another, even more topical and contagious virus to their hit-list, Coronavirus. While these pathogens have many technical differences the two viruses share the property of living on hands and surfaces for a day or more. Coronavirus […]
Foodservice’s Perennial Handwashing Question Answered by Healthcare Research
Data unleashes sustainable solutions Healthcare handwashing research rarely reaches the ranks of restaurant’s food safety and risk management professionals. A recent review of the impact of Electronic Handwash Monitoring in healthcare has answered the question that has held back serious evaluations by the restaurant industry: Handwashing data may increase policy compliance but does it reduce […]