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Imagine this question being asked by your liability insurer or restaurant owner.
There is an unofficial internal team that can best answer the question posed in this headline. While its risk-research winds its way through the publication process, Handwashing For Life® recommends a one-time assembly of multi-department risk assessors to weigh in on current handwashing frequency.
This study seeks to help operators quantify Norovirus risk reduction in terms of Hand Washes per Employee Hour, HW/EH. A preliminary result indicates a 70% risk reduction with 1 HW/EH. https://handwashingforlife.org/journal/new-handwashing-for-life-risk-study-explores-norovirus-handwashing-frequency/
This downloadable collaboration curve (https://handwashingforlife.org/5-step-process/2-set-safe-level/) helps the ad hoc risk team take the collective pulse of today’s handwashing from differing brand protection perspectives: Food Safety, Quality Assurance, Training, Risk Management, and Operations.
Each member, reflecting on their accountability in protecting the brand and balancing this with what they see and hear every day, marks the curve indicating where they wish to be and where they are likely to be now. This approximation and suggested actions capture valuable insights and set the stage for enduring solutions. https://handwashingforlife.org/5-step-process/1-assess-risk/
There are two new technologies available to inexpensively measure today’s handwashing frequency, expressed as Hand Washes per Employee Hour (HW/EH). Both can be used as a permanent fix or just as a one-time internal research tool to define the gap, should one exist. Both use team reporting, avoiding the privacy issues that arise when reporting is done at the individual level.
The first is a Clorox-Purell Bluetooth-equipped soap dispenser, the ES-10. It simply gathers the kitchen’s total Hand Washes for the week and divides that by total Employee Hours, HW/EH. https://www.gojo.com/en/Product-Catalog/Dispenser/ES10
The second is a service solution that works on both manual and electronic soap dispensers. This cloud-delivered solution, the HigenX W.I.N. (Wash Index Number) system, is available from Ireland-based Higenx®.
https://higenx.com.
Contact mike@higenx.com for details.
