Improving Professional Handwashing Compliance The Innovation Cycle 1-2-3

The Innovation Cycle is simply a three-phase defense for Foodservice Operators to safeguard their customers and brands from the risk of foodborne outbreaks caused by cracks in their handwashing process.

Operators are often frustrated when they reflect on decades of handwashing compliance improvement projects and today’s gap between expected performance and reality. The truth is that the simple solutions have been exhausted, and innovation will drive the next wave of progress as it provides new choices for operators in lowering their risk of a brand-damaging outbreak.

The Handwashing For Life’s Innovation Cycle 1-2-3, defines its organization:

The unmet needs of operators are identified by members of The Handwashing Leadership Forum®, experts in applied science where practical experience tempers laboratory findings.
Handwashing For Life® develops the research hypothesis, facilitates the needed funding and drives implementation.
New ideas need early nurturing, often from a range of manufacturing Innovators across a wide group of technologies. These are our InnoCircle™ Members.

Handwashing For Life is built on helping operators make better handwashing decisions to protect their customers, staff and brand. Their advocacy for best practice handwashing now focuses on areas where innovation is the key to continual improvement.

The Handwashing Leadership Forum® Operators

The Handwashing Leadership Forum® is a corps of volunteer operators who have agreed to an annual handwashing review in the industry's quest for continuous improvement. This is the living essence of Handwashing For Life®, keeping Continuous Improvement activities grounded in operator needs. Members of this forum have been selected for...

Handwashing For Life: Research That Matters!

Handwashing research requires time and treasure, often competing with the productivity of food service operations. By collaborating from the idea phase onward, these timelines can be significantly shortened. Handwashing For Life's approach to crowdfunding effectively reduces budgetary obstacles, engaging like-minded operators and suppliers. Foodservice operators, particularly those in leadership positions,...

InnoCircle™ Supplier Role in the Innovation Cycle

Handwashing For Life’s InnoCircle is a development-minded group of multidisciplinary companies willing to support each other in the innovation process. Each is focused on leveraging innovation to grow its own "clean hands" technologies. Membership in this assembly is based on the companies' core business success and willingness to work together....