Portable Sinks Can Save Money

March 13th, 2009

It is a fact that young children do not understand the value of a dollar. Utility bills are one of the largest expenses for a day care facility. When you have young children that do not understand that washing their hands actually cost money, your water bill can skyrocket! Small children do not realize that by leaving the sink running when they wash their hands costs their school money. This type of wasted water can cost your day care center more money than it may have budgeted for water use. By utilizing portable sinks at your facility, you can actually have them their in the classroom where the children can be monitored. This is an excellent to regulate your schools water use by young children while still teaching them the importance of keeping their hands and face clean. By placing a portable sink in each classroom, your instructors will have a convenient cleanup process literally at their fingertips, which allows for quick clean up without leaving the children unattended to make trips to the rest room for a wet paper towel after a spill. A portable sink is a good learning tool and it will save you money.

The importance of hand washing

March 13th, 2009

You may be aware of the importance of hand washing. It is one of the ways of maintaining good hygiene. Why hand washing is recommended? The main reason is to prevent spreading of contagious diseases. Hand washing ensures your safety from getting infections. Hand washing is recommended mainly for infection control. If you don’t wash your hands, you may have more chances to get infections such as flu, cold cough and intestinal infections. You may also get diarrhea. There are many other infections that may be caused by unclean hands. People working in medical field should understand the importance of hand washing.

Germs transmit on our household in many ways. It may transmit from our hand to food. When we eat that food, we might get the infection. Germs may transmit from raw food like meat to your hands and from your hands to your food afterward. That is why you should wash your hands nicely after working with meat, chicken and so on. If you don’t wash your hands properly, you may transmit germs to your eyes, nose and mouth. You should wash your hands every time you use toilet. Tools carry germs. If you are having infants at home, you should change diaper often. Every time after changing diaper, you should wash your hands properly. In hospitals, the staffs have to be very careful during their work.

All the hospital staff should be aware of the importance of washing hands frequently during duty time. It is quite unfortunate that people working in the medical field are not taking enough efforts to keep their hands free from germs even though they are fully aware of the danger of spreading infections. In fact, they should wash hands every time they touch a patient. But unfortunately, we often notice that the hospital staffs don’t stick to this rule at all in many hospitals. In the operation theater, all the staff should wash their hands with extreme care to avoid spreading infections. They should know how to wash their hands carefully with soap. Items such as a portable sink, a small self contained cleaning unit, could be spread out across the hospital; making it easier for employees to wash their hands.

Those people who are in food service should take good care of hygiene. They should be very careful while cooking and serving food. They need to wash hands before cooking and before serving food. Children should be taught to wash hands before eating. In a nutshell, I would say that main reason for food borne illness is due to poor hygiene. Lack of hand washing is the main reason for poor hygiene. Therefore, let us spread the message of the importance of hand washing, and how easy it can be using portable sinks, to others to avoid spreading of diseases.

Workplace Sanitation Important in Food Service

February 23rd, 2009

Now more than ever, ensuring that your food service surfaces in your business are clean and sanitized when used to serve your customers. Recent health concerns have developed at restaurants all over the world, and many businesses deal with customers who are dissatisfied when the food they are served makes them sick. Unhappy, ill customers are not only a liability as they refuse to return to a restaurant or other food service option, but they also have a larger threat of being potential litigants in a lawsuit against you. So, what can you do to avoid being another business caught in this trap?

First and foremost, a business that serves food needs to ensure that all local health codes are being followed when it comes to sanitation. Most locales have codes for sterilization and food service preparation that minimizes the chances of a person getting ill due to the food. Of course, this doesn’t always cut the number of people who fall ill, so going above and beyond the minimum, even if it does require extra effort on the part of your employees, is always the best option. Using cleaners that work to debacterialize surfaces or hot water to sterilize surfaces that cannot be leaned with chemically based solvents is a must.

Cleaning with sterile cloths or clean sponges is also recommended, especially given that sponges tend to be harbingers of bacteria, meaning that you may be making the surface worse when you think you are cleaning it off. Ensuring that employees have good sanitation practices in their workstations is important. Apathetic employees likely will shirk their cleaning responsibilities, which can put your customers at risk for bacterial contact.

Make sure that your employees complete their tasks with cleaning properly. Ensure that they are using proper hand coverings and other precautions to ensure that they don’t recontaminate surfaces they just cleaned. Most importantly, ensure that surfaces are being cleaned with materials that won’t cause a different contamination of the food being served. Using chemically based surface cleaners can encourage the growth of some micro organisms.

Above all, making sure that the food being served is being prepared properly itself – misprepared food is a leading cause of surface contamination. Undercooked meats, raw foods, and other products that can be mishandled can create a bacterial mess without much thought by the preparer. If you can heed these warnings and keep your surfaces sanitized and clean, you can keep your customers and your employees safe. A healthy customer ultimately is a happy customer.