1. February 3, 2017 Entry task question:
Why is hand washing so important when preparing food? What could result in not washing your hands before preparing foods?
Target
Today you will demonstrate the proper way to wash your hands

2. Hand washing!!

3. Hand Washing
Why is it important?

4. Importance of Hand Washing
Hand washing is important because it washes away all bacteria and germs before you start to prepare food.
Even if your hands look clean, they are in fact very dirty.

5. Statistics
A 2006 American Society of Microbiology study revealed that only 75 percent of women and 50 percent of men wash their hands after using the toilet.
What do you think about middle and high school students?

6. GROSS!
Only 33 percent of middle and high school females wash, and only 8 percent of males.

8. Wow!
Hand washing
It is estimated that washing hands with soap and water could reduce diarrheal disease-associated deaths by up to 50% 1.
Researchers in London estimate that if everyone routinely washed their hands, a million deaths a year could be prevented 2.
A large percentage of foodborne disease outbreaks are spread by contaminated hands. Appropriate hand washing practices can reduce the risk of foodborne illness and other infections 3.
Hand washing can reduce the risk of respiratory infections by 16% 4.
The use of an alcohol gel hand sanitizer in the classroom provided an overall reduction in absenteeism due to infection by 19.8% among 16 elementary schools and 6,000 students 5.
Research from the CDC

9. The flu… EWWWW!!!
Flu viruses capable of being transferred to hands and causing an infection can survive on hard surfaces for 24 hours. Infectious flu viruses can survive on tissues for only 15 minutes. Like cold viruses, infectious flu viruses survive for much shorter periods on the hands.

10. Proper Hand Washing Procedures
The steps necessary for proper hand washing procedures are as follows:
1. Wet hands and forearms with hot water. Apply enough soap to build up a good lather.
2. Thoroughly scrub any exposed surfaces with soap and water. This includes underneath your finger nails!!!
3. Rub hands and arms for at least 20 seconds

11. How Long is 20 seconds?
-Happy Birthday song twice
-The ABCs

12. Procedures Continued
Rinse off soap thoroughly under running hot water.
Turn off the water faucet using a paper towel
Dry hands and arms using a separate paper towel.

13. Wash Often!!
When you are preparing food for an extended period of time you should wash your hands every two hours to help prevent cross contamination.

14. How Many Times per day?

15. According to the “British Medical Journal” you should wash hands at least 10 times daily is necessary to prevent disease.
How often do you?

16. Hand Washing You should always wash your hands in these situations:
Before starting work
After any work breaks, including those to eat, drink or chew gum
Before and after handling raw foods such as meat, fish and poultry
After touching hair, face or body

17. After sneezing, coughing, or using tissue
After using the restroom
After using any cleaning or sanitizing product
After taking out the garbage

18. After cleaning dirty dishes and tables.
After touching anything else that might contaminate food, such as a phone, money, door handles, or soiled table linens.
While hand sanitizers are widely available, never use in place of hand washing.

19. If you have a cut on your hand:
Wash out your cut
Put a band aid or bandage it up.
Wear a glove over the band aid.

21. What if I have no soap or clean water?
Washing hands with soap and water is the best way to reduce the number of germs on them.
If soap and water are not available, use an alcohol-based hand sanitizer that contains at least 60% alcohol.
Alcohol-based hand sanitizers can quickly reduce the number of germs on hands in some situations, but sanitizers do not eliminate all types of germs.
Hand sanitizers are not effective when hands are visibly dirty.