Transcript PowerPoint Presentation - Team Rally™ Handwashing Program

The mission:
“Handwashing
is the single most important
means of preventing
the spread of infection”
- Centers for Disease Control
Enhancing Handwashing Behavior
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Handwashing:
Critical food safety behavior
• The fecal-hand-oral route
• Fecal virus is the most common cause of
foodborne disease in the US (Mead, et al)
• Handwashing breaks the chain of
transmission in the “fecal-hand-oral route”
• Poor hand hygiene contributes to the
majority of foodborne disease outbreaks
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Poor handwashing as a
contributing factor
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Motivate good handwashing
behavior
• The Team Rally™
program develops each
food worker's:
•Knowledge – of the
importance of handwashing
and food safety
•Understanding – of their
role in preventing
foodborne disease
•Commitment
– to best practices
– to fellow workers
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Team Rally concept
• Internal competition within a foodservice
establishment or group
• An active learning program to increase
handwashing and lower risk
“Team Rally adds the fun factor to motivate and break
language barriers.”
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Internal competition
• Management commitment is essential:
involvement by staff at all levels
• Company wide – everyone welcome
• Team building – workers form teams to
compete; winning teams advance to
finals
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Behavior changing format
• Can be run anytime, Food Safety
Education Month is popular
• Continuous reinforcement over the
month improves behavior
• Annual repetition enables long-term
impact, organizational commitment
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GlitterBug® training
• Makes invisible
germs “real”
• Initial “disclosure” of
poor handwashing
habits
• Tool to demonstrate
proper technique
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Knowledge enhancement
• Answering a Food Safety Quiz is an
essential part of the competition. The
questions - and answers! – are covered
early in the program.
• Team Rally™ quiz helps develop the
“demonstration of knowledge,” a Food
Code requirement.
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The Team Rally finale:
• Enhancing motivation
• Reinforcing behavior
• Embedding change
Regulatory judges
• Inviting regulatory personnel to judge
the finals:
• Enhances impact and emphasizes
importance of the event by bringing in
outside “officials”
• Helps build industry-regulatory bridges
• Regulators enjoy a consultative role
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Three scoring components
• Time – 20 second target window: points
deducted for time over or under
• Effectiveness – based on GlitterBug residue
on hands, mapped onto scorecards
• Knowledge – based on correctly answering
randomly chosen quiz questions
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Scorecard
• Record time, mark
unwashed areas,
record quiz results &
add for final score
• Judging is objective:
winners have
highest score
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Award ceremony
• Acknowledge all contestants &
participants
• Have senior management make
presentations
• Recognition awards are critical
• Cash prizes add to participation,
suppliers may sponsor awards
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Effectiveness
• Staff and management participation enhances
program
• Incentives add to participation
• Teamwork and recognition support
organizational effectiveness
• Regulators recognize effort and commitment
• Long-term impact on behavior
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Implementation
• Handwashingforlife materials:
• Handwashingforlife: The Why,
The When and The How (video)
• Pledge of Professionalism (poster)
• Team Rally™ (video & guide)
• Top Ten Training Handout
• Scorecard and Award Template
• Hands-On Integration
• Implementation support from The
Handwashing Leadership Forum
• Access to GlitterBug and other
Member support products & services
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Conclusion
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Changes worker behavior
Builds awareness throughout organization
Enhances relationship with inspectors
Upbeat, enduring and fun!
Documented long-term improvement
Credits & references
The Team Rally™ program was developed by the Handwashing For Life Institute, Jim
Mann, Executive Director, and Dion Lerman, CFSP, Education and Training Director, based
on a program developed for Clyde’s Restaurant Group (Washington, DC) by Victoria Griffith,
Clyde’s Director of Quality Assurance, and Ellen Scroth, RS, President of Foodsense, Inc.,
Clyde’s food safety auditor. Graphics by Baer Design. Video production by Fink Productions.
For more information access: www.handwashingforlife.com
© 2004 Handwashing For Life®
References:
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Gifford, David, Advance data from "An analysis of 10 years of foodborne disease outbreak
data in Washington State (1990-1999)" (preliminary title; publication TBA), Washington State
Department of Health., 2001. For info contact: [email protected].
Mead, Paul S. and, Slusker, L., Dietz, V., McCraig, L.F., Bresee, J.S., Shapiro, C., Griffin,
P.M., Tauxe, R.V. Food-related Illness and death in the United States. Emerging Infectious
Diseases 5:5, 607-625. Sept-Oct 1999. http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/eid/vol5no5/mead.htm,
Jim Mann
Executive Director
Handwashing Leadership Forum
1216 Flamingo Parkway
Libertyville, IL 60048
USA
800.446.3628 voice
847.918.0305 fax
[email protected]
www.handwashingforlife.com