Dr. Lee-Ann Jaykus was presented the prestigious NSF Leadership Award for Innovation by Handwashing For Life Institute’s Executive Director, Jim Mann, at a ceremony conducted at the 2017 Food Safety Summit in Chicago. Lee-Ann is a professor at North Carolina State University and Director of the NoroCORE program. Lifetime Achievement Awards were also presented to Jack Guzewich, left, and […]
Surface Cleaning Advances at ISSA 2016
Options grow for TouchReady® Surfaces The annual ISSA meeting continues to demonstrate its leadership in surface cleanliness advances. Some high-tech options this year were in the Generate-On-Site category, including the stabilized ozone from Tersano. Variations of electrolyzed water were represented. Tenant has harnessed the chemistry for floor machines and Geneon has optimized its engineered water […]
Ready for Norovirus
’Tis the season to be . . . washing your hands! Great Britain uses a colorful name to describe norovirus as it went technically unclassified for years but its effects were well known, particularly in nursing homes. The “winter vomiting disease” takes its toll every year in a pattern now confirmed in this CDC slide. Norovirus […]
Defeating Norovirus
Conquering this Enemy is Increasingly a Matter of Choice The more we learn about norovirus, the clearer the choices are in changing current behaviors. Foodservice operators know a lot about norovirus, especially in how to cope with an outbreak. What they are ignoring are the impacts of breakthroughs in the science of norovirus, DNA identification […]
Mitigate Risk: Motivate Hand-Washing
Hand-washing continues to rapidly move from a tiring and trivial irritation to an existential threat. One restaurant operator faced a federal grand jury subpoena last year as part of a U.S. Food and Drug Administration criminal investigation regarding a major norovirus outbreak at the chain’s Simi Valley, Calif., store. The operator was accused of not […]
The Gambler’s Handwash vs. The Brand Protection Handwash
Norovirus control demands actual handwashing – not more handsinks, training nor restroom signage. Las Vegas casinos consider handwashing as brand protection, first for the global brand, “Las Vegas”, and second for their own as they vie for guests in a very competitive environment. Casinos understand risk better than most and the Handwashing For Life® Institute […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
