On this week's episode, we invite Meritech CTO Paul Barnhill as a return guest to discuss the different ways to validate hand washing methods for pathogen removal, the human considerations to take into account when forming a testing methodology,  and reveal what every company can do to help prevent the spread of pathogens.

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 efficacy studies for handwashing. Mr. Barnhill goes into detail explaining how these studies are performed, how to interpret results and general information about handwashing efficacy.

This podcast is brought to you by Meritech, the leader in automated employee hygiene. Meritech offers a complete line of fully-automated handwashing, boot scrubbing, and footwear sanitizing equipment that provides the only clinically-validated, technology-based approach to human hygiene in the world. Meritech’s line of CleanTech systems performs a fully-automated 12-second hand wash, sanitize and rinse cycle, removing over 99.9% of dangerous pathogens while using 75% less water than manual handwashing. Meritech delivers employee hygiene, contamination control, and infection prevention programs within a wide variety of markets, including food production, food service, cleanroom, healthcare, medical, theme parks, and cruise lines. For more information, visit www.meritech.com or call 303-790-4670.

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.

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 COO Paul Barnhill as a return guest to help listeners understand the importance of footwear hygiene in food processing. Mr. Barnhill goes into detail explaining the pros and cons between different footwear sanitation methods, how to determine what makes sense for your facility and provides solutions for overcoming the greatest source of risk in achieving proper hygiene: the variability of human behavior in complying with SOPs.

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This podcast is brought to you by Meritech, the leader in automated employee hygiene. Meritech offers a complete line of fully-automated hand washing, boot scrubbing, and footwear sanitizing equipment that provides the only clinically-validated, technology-based approach to human hygiene in the world. Meritech’s line of CleanTech systems perform a fully-automated 12-second hand wash, sanitize and rinse cycle, removing over 99.9% of dangerous pathogens while using 75% less water than manual handwashing. Meritech delivers employee hygiene, contamination control, and infection prevention programs within a wide variety of markets, including food production, food service, cleanroom, healthcare, medical, theme parks, and cruise lines. For more information, visit www.meritech.com or call 303-790-4670.

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 today’s episode, we invite Meritech COO Paul Barnhill to help listeners understand the importance of hand hygiene in food processing, the pitfalls of traditional sinks, and how to prevent a recall in your facility. Mr. Barnhill goes into detail explaining the differences between manual and automated hand washing and provides solutions for overcoming the greatest source of risk in achieving proper hygiene: the variability of human behavior in complying with SOPs.

This podcast is brought to you by Meritech, the leader in automated employee hygiene. Meritech offers a complete line of fully-automated hand washing, boot scrubbing, and footwear sanitizing equipment that provides the only clinically-validated, technology-based approach to human hygiene in the world. Meritech’s line of CleanTech systems perform a fully-automated 12-second hand wash, sanitize and rinse cycle, removing over 99.9% of dangerous pathogens while using 75% less water than manual handwashing. Meritech delivers employee hygiene, contamination control, and infection prevention programs within a wide variety of markets, including food production, food service, cleanroom, healthcare, medical, theme parks, and cruise lines. For more information, visit www.meritech.com or call 303-790-4670.