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Handwashing Saves Lives, Infection prevention

Hand-Washing Dance Viral Video

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Hand washing dance Indonesia 🙂

Hand washing dance, from Indonesia

Posted by DrKnowledge on Saturday, August 19, 2017


Just in time for the back-to-school season, a group called Dr. Knowledge has released a video on Facebook about handwashing. Aimed at a younger audience, the video features five doctors dressed in scrubs in a choreographed routine demonstrating proper handwashing techniques.

The message from these doctors in Indonesia is a fresh take on educating kids on the importance of handwashing, and the video has quickly gone viral.

For more resources in helping kids learn the importance of handwashing, check out the Brevis Child Education Collection, including the Germbusters Starter Set, coloring pages, and a variety of reward stickers!   

 

Sources:

https://www.ecr.co.za/shows/east-coast-breakfast/watch-doctors-hand-washing-dance-goes-viral/

https://www.facebook.com/DrknowledgeMedicine/videos/vb.538418383006329/787546511426847/?type=2&theater=&sw_fnr_id=1380710349&fnr_t=0

https://www.brevis.com/child-education

https://www.brevis.com/products/133159/ggset001-germbusters-starter-set-the-basic-set-to?ref=/child-education

https://www.brevis.com/products/544209/gbsclr01-germbusterscoloringpages-for-k1-contains?ref=/child-education

https://www.brevis.com/products/340314/gbs2la50-germbuster-ii-stickers?ref=/child-education

Handwashing Saves Lives, Infection prevention

Handwashing and Food Safety at the Ballpark

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Late summer and early fall are great times to go to a ball game. If you’re planning a trip to the ballpark, you may want to do some research before you decide to grab a bite to eat during the game.

Taste preferences aside, the main issue seems to be food handling within sports venues. UCLA Professor and board member of the Academy of Food Law & Policy Michael Roberts says, “The real risk, it seems to me at the ballpark, is the handling of food. That’s where you’ve got handlers cooking the food, handing it out, managing refrigeration and heating.” Roberts indicates local level authorities– county inspectors, for instance– are key to ensuring quality and safety measures are followed by those handling the food.

 

Measures are in place, of course, such as the requirement in every state for foodservice workers to wash their hands after using a restroom. However, a fire-safety law requiring doors to open inward rather than outward often results in recontamination when those who have just washed their hands have to pull a door handle to exit the restroom. With more businesses moving away from disposable paper towels (which could be used to open the door), extra precautions should be taken before the workers handle food after using the restroom. One common sense move is to ensure hands are washed in the food-handling area, even if hands were recently washed in the restroom, before handling food.

 

If baseball is your thing, Sports Illustrated has created a list of 2017 MLB Ballpark Food Safety Rankings.

 

Whatever your favorite sports event happens to be, if you get food to eat at the ballpark, be sure to wash YOUR hands before you eat!

 

To help your local foodhandlers brush up on proper, effective hand washing techniques, we recommend Brevis Glitterbug products, including GlitterBug Potion Disclosing Lotion, GlitterBug Hand and Nail Scrub Brush, and the GlitterBug Handwash Instruction Manual.

 

 

Sources:

http://reason.com/archives/2017/08/19/why-handwashing-is-key-to-ballpark-food

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28221948

https://www.fda.gov/food/guidanceregulation/retailfoodprotection/foodcode/

https://www.fda.gov/downloads/Food/GuidanceRegulation/RetailFoodProtection/FoodCode/UCM374510.pdf

https://www.si.com/eats/2017/08/08/mlb-food-safety-ballpark-rankings

https://www.brevis.com/search?q=glitterbug

https://www.brevis.com/products/467162/gbpotion-glitterbug-disclosing-lotion-8ounce-pumpbottle?ref=/search

https://www.brevis.com/products/771490/gbbrush-glitterbug-hand-and-nail-scrub-brush?ref=/search

https://www.brevis.com/products/220150/gbmanual-glitterbug-handwash-instruction-manual?ref=/search

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Handwashing Saves Lives

Tippy Taps—a simple and economic handwashing station

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Have you heard of Tippy Taps? A Tippy Tap is a simple and economic handwashing station often used in developing countries without reliable access to a piped water supply.

 

Easily constructed from everyday objects, a Tippy Tap allows for proper and effective handwashing in the most rural of areas, and doesn’t waste water.

 

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has recommendations on how to construct and maintain a Tippy Tap.

 

Here’s a quick video showing one way to make and use a Tippy Tap:

 

 

For more tools to help with effective handwashing in your school, home, or workplace, visit Brevis.com.

 

Sources:

https://www.cdc.gov/safewater/publications_pages/tippy-tap.pdf

https://www.cdc.gov/safewater/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6F9jcA8ZAi0

https://www.brevis.com/

 

 

Handwashing Saves Lives, Science around the world

A Pen to Help Wash Kids’ Hands

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Getting kids to wash their hands effectively can be a chore. Even when soap is available, kids will often skip using it and wash with just water. Bar soap can be messy, and liquid soap can be overused and wasted.

 

One thing kids do enjoy doing is drawing on their hands.

 

Combining these two problems has equalled a solution called SoaPen.

 

When a group of Indian industrial designers from Parson’s School of Design in New York decided to find a way to get children into the habit of washing their hands, SoaPen was eventually born. Yogita Agrawal, Amanat Anand, and Shubham Issar got to work when they learned that handwashing can prevent the deaths of as many as 1.5 million children under age 5 each year. The designers’ initial response was to make sure schools had soap, but they soon learned the soap was already in the schools; the kids simply weren’t using it correctly, if at all. Observation of the students also yielded the realization that while they don’t spend time washing their hands, kids do spend time drawing on their hands.

 

SoaPen is a colored marker with ink that turns into soapy lather when mixed with water. Kids draw all over their hands with it and have fun while washing their hands effectively.

 

The invention landed the three women in this year’s Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia list for healthcare and science, and also led to their winning the 2015 UNICEF Wearables for Good Challenge.

 

Agrawal explains, “The effectiveness of SoaPen in reaching out to children and making handwashing a habit has reinstated our belief that simple, thoughtful changes to even age-old conventions can make rather big impacts.”

 

Brevis also offers many creative ways for children of all ages to have fun while making sure their hands are clean. Glitterbug kits are one example—check them out at this link. For more creative ways to help kids be motivated to wash their hands, visit Brevis.com.

 

Sources:

http://www.interaksyon.com/soapen-this-soap-crayon-can-help-prevent-1-5-million-child-deaths-each-year/

https://www.forbes.com/30-under-30-asia/2017/healthcare-science/#5668e9b11722

http://www.soapen.com/

https://www.brevis.com/