Health and safety play an important role in all industries, especially in those where food is involved or cleanliness is a must. Schools, restaurants and health care facilities need properly tested and validated equipment to ensure they provide safe products or services. The National Sanitation Foundation (NSF) has been at the forefront of food safety and […]
Germs undoubtedly affect every human on the planet. So, let’s dive a little deeper into these persistent, potentially illness-causing pests and discover how together, germs and hand washing are the perfect match. What are germs? Simply put, germs are microorganisms that can exist pretty much anywhere, including on our skin and in our bodies. […]
We can thank much of today’s hand hygiene knowledge to a Hungarian doctor—Ignaz Semmelweis—who discovered the vital connection between hand washing and disease in the mid-1800s. We’re getting ahead of ourselves here though—so let’s back it up a bit and take a deeper look at the history of hand washing. The origins of hand washing […]
Wash your hands. The simple statement drilled into all of us as children has taken on a new, shall we say, public role in all our lives. We’re all doing that sneaky side-eye at the restaurant bathroom sink and are extremely wary to touch any surfaces not in our own homes. We’re justified in this […]
There’s nothing like a good round of hand washing. We sing our ABCs, scrub away, and gaze longingly at our reflections for 20 seconds. But what do the white coat wearing smarty pants tell us as to why we have to follow each of these hand washing steps? The CDC’s hand washing steps The CDC has broken […]
So, of course, we were all conscious before COVID of keeping ourselves healthy and safe. Yet, it seems different now. That’s because it is. […]
It’s been over a year now and we’ve all gotten used to keeping a bottle of hand sanitizer on us at all times. We use it after touching any shared surface, but is it really a viable replacement for hand-washing? Are we only using it because there isn’t enough access to point-of-contact hand-washing? Let’s take […]
