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Kitchen Glogerm Experiment

 

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Kitchen Hygiene

A HEALTHIER SCHOOL IS IN YOUR HANDS

If you have been following our Clean Hands for Schools Campaign parts 1-3 you should by now have educated your children and staff on the importance of CLEAN HANDS!

Hopefully you have put into place facilities to ensure that this is possible – fun hand soaps, easy drying methods and extra precautionary hand sanitisers, now its time to address the Kitchen Staff and really make sure you have the best possible hand hygiene practices throughout the whole of your school.

As you know germs are easily spread from person to person by our hands or hand contact surfaces, exactly the same applies with germs being transferred to food, it is so easily done and yet so easily prevented.

Our Clean Hands for Schools Campaign … Part IV discusses methods on how to prevent food bourn illnesses caused by contaminated foods and how these foods become contaminated in the first place.

Request Your FREE CHSC - part IV and STOP unnecessary illnesses occurring in your school.

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In July 2006 a Primary School in London had to be closed for 10 days after 39 cases of the potentially fatal Ecoli bacteria were confirmed, 37 of which were children.

Between September and December 2005 the UK experienced the biggest Ecoli outbreak for over a decade involving 42 schools across 4 counties in South Wales. There were 158 people affected by the outbreak, one of whom died.

What is food borne illness?
Food borne illnesses are caused by eating contaminated food, but they differ from food poisoning as the bacteria that cause the illnesses do not need food to multiply … by eating just a few organisms can make you ill. Food borne illnesses are spread by food, water and people because of poor hand hygiene.


There are many bacteria that cause Food Bourne Illnesses, Ecoli is a widespread organism that just requires a few bacteria to cause illness and is easily spread by cross contamination; Norwalk-like Virus is the most common food borne viral illness which is passed from person to person. Infected Kitchen Staff can pass the virus to foods and surfaces and outbreaks in schools are common causing many children and staff to experience diarrhoea and vomiting.

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Hands are continually used in food handling by Dining Assistants and in food preparation by Cooks and Kitchen Assistants - this is why hands are the main method of transferring pathogenic (disease causing) germs to food.

Cooks, Assistants and Dining Staff play an important and vital role in helping to keep the risks of food contamination to a minimum. By educating and offering a good hand hygiene program to your staff can help you stop food borne germs spreading throughout the school.

Hand Hygiene isn’t just about washing hands it’s also about keeping the hands in good condition. Constant washing of hands can cause dry, chapped and sore skin which can increase the risk of cross contamination because the number of bacteria that are present is higher.

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OUR RECOMMENDATION

Introduce a Skin Care Program for all your Kitchen and Dining Assistants

CLEANSE : SANITISE : CONDITION

Cleansing is the foundational stage in skin care hygiene, Sanitising is essential to remove those bacteria from the hands that you cannot see and Conditioning keeps the skin in good healthy condition replacing natural oils and moisture.

Locate a 3 STEP SKIN HYGIENE CENTRE next to the main hand washing sink in your school kitchen

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Visual Aids

As well as all these posters we also have a GLO-BUG kit that you can rent for a small cost to help demonstrate the "Kitchen Experiments".

This kit consists of a Light Box with UV Lamp, Germ Powder and Brush and a Germ Cream.

This complete kit to purchase would normally cost you £199.99 however we realise that you may only use this kit once or twice during a school year for training and therefore this may not be economical.

Instead we would like to offer you the opportunity to loan out a kit for a two week period.
We will send you the complete kit, and you are free to use all of the germ cream and powder, just return the view box, lamp and brush in its presentation box.

We will deliver directly to you and arrange for delivery back to us so you have no fuss or bother.

For all of this we ask for a small charge of £39.97 (+vat) which we will invoice so there is no need for credit card payments.

If you would like to hire the Glo-Bug kit please EMAIL your request or
Telephone 0800 542 8031

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