Welcome to The Wash, your trusted resource for the latest and greatest in public health and hygiene, where we will tackle topics like hand hygiene, best practices in footwear sanitization, creating an employee hygiene program, and more! On this week's episode, we invite Meritech CTO Paul Barnhill as a return guest to help listeners understand the importance of creating a hygiene culture to ensure food safety. Mr. Barnhill goes into detail explaining what a hygiene culture is, how to begin creating one at your facility and explains why this is key part of overcoming the greatest source of risk in achieving proper hygiene: the variability of human behavior.

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