Research conducted at Campden BRI and by others has found that hands and gloved hands rank highly in terms of microbial contamination transfer to food. Good hand hygiene and washroom design may help reduce this transmission and that of bacteria and viruses between food handlers.
With implications for assurance of food safety and quality and worker health, this seminar brings together key speakers from the NHS, Campden BRI and the hygiene industry to present findings in relation to controlling the spread of contamination by personnel and from washrooms. Holchem is one of a number of companies supporting this seminar.
Seminar date: 20th October 2009.
Members price £95 + vat; Non-member price £145 + vat
The morning session will focus on the findings of the new Campden BRI 'Hand Hygiene Review and Guidance document' and will include advice on hot topics such as 'to glove or not to glove' and the methods of monitoring available to ensure that control strategies are working. In the afternoon there will be the opportunity to attend short presentations and demonstrations by washroom product manufacturers, and discuss innovative technologies related to hand and washroom hygiene. The emphasis will be on 'touch-free' hygiene systems.
Highlights
Expert presentations on reducing the transmission of bacteria and viruses by food handlers
Novel hygiene technology applications
Exhibition of novel washroom products including demonstrations using working models
Launch of the new Campden BRI Hand Hygiene Review and Guidance document
Benefits of attending
Overall this seminar will highlight the key issues related to hand and washroom hygiene, and provide food and beverage manufacturers with the information necessary to review their current hand hygiene practices and implement changes that will help them minimise the risk of product contamination.
Programme
09:15 Registration and Refreshments
09:45 Welcome to Campden BRI Chairman´s Introduction
10:00 Hand and washroom hygiene in the food and drink industry - best practice and new ideas. This presentation will introduce the new Campden BRI Hand Hygiene Review and Guidance document, which brings together the latest research and industry findings related to the control of contamination spread by personnel and from washrooms Debra Smith, Campden BRI
10:40 Hand and washroom hygiene in the NHS - best practice Infection Control Adviser, National Patient Safety Agency
11:20 Refreshment break
11:40 Contamination control and hygiene monitoring
Washroom facility hygienic design
Cleaning and disinfection
Monitoring methods
Dr John Holah, Campden BRI
Novel Hygiene Technology Applications
Session 1 - Handwashing, hand drying and personnel compliance
12:20 Automated handwash system Speaker from Proventec plc.
12:40 The Dyson Airblade hand dryer: a hygienic alternative to paper Toby Saville, Microbiologist, Dyson.
13:00 Higeia personnel hygiene compliance sensor system Using technology to implement, control and monitor good hand hygiene procedures in a fast moving food processing plant and having the information downloaded daily onto a reporting structure that can be used to monitor personnel hygiene compliance. Iain Elder, Pulse Medical Technologies
13:20 Question and answer session
13:30 LUNCH
Session 2 - Contamination control
14:10 Glo-Germ hand hygiene training system This presentation will seek to demonstrate the ease with which potentially harmful microbes can be transported by hands and how good hand hygiene practices can be developed to limit this. Speaker from Deb Limited
14:20 Automated toilet seat - Speaker from Saflush
14:40 Puretouch hygienic door handle Washroom door handles are at the centre of the cross contamination cycle. With there now being many touch-free features in our facilities, visiting the washroom is a cleaner and more hygienic experience - however the buck stops at the exit door handle. The Puretouch hygienic door handle ensures that the final touch is a sanitary one. Ian Smith, Sterling UK
14:50 Byosan for residual disinfection Speaker from Byotrol
15.10 Question and answer session
15:20 Chairman's Closing Comments
Exhibition
15:30 Refreshments and opportunity to view exhibitions and demonstrations of novel washroom products in the Food Hygiene Department.
16.30 Close
Novel washroom products exhibition
There will be an exhibition of the novel washroom related products located in the Food Hygiene Department. Delegates will be invited to visit this exhibition during the afternoon refreshment break and for the next hour.
Hand hygiene review and guidance document
This seminar will launch the new Campden BRI Hand Hygiene Review and Guidance document. The Review brings together the latest research and industry findings, and novel technologies and chemical formulations, related to washroom design and hand hygiene.