Wells Hygiene partners with Meritech USA

COVID-19 has really placed the focus on the importance of hand hygiene. In the food and beverage processing sector, hand hygiene has always been of one of the top priorities of food industry quality or production professionals.

There is a great deal of documented studies and papers in relation to best practice methods for cleaning hands. This has not really changed for many years.

Clean hands have always relied on people taking appropriate care and time, to ensure a compliant outcome. Relying on all team members in a food production facility to clean their hands to the same consistent and high standard is difficult to achieve.

In reality, some will wash for different lengths of time, use different amounts of soap and more or less hot water. Also, there is great variation in how they use mechanical action (scrub) to clean things like creases, nails and other parts of the hands. Additionally, inconsistent hand washing practices have also led us to an over reliance on alcohol-based hand sanitisers as a second line of defence.

Meritech USA has developed and specialises in automated hand washing systems that have taken the subjective nature out of washing hands, with its range of Cleantech Automated Handwashing Stations. This technology revolutionises hand washing, reducing the time it takes, uses up to 70% less water, with compliance tracking and ensures 100% consistent wash outcomes, with 99.9% of harmful pathogens removed, including COVID-19.

The Cleantech hand wash stations are FDA accepted and fully validated. White papers on this are available.

Wells Hygiene in Australia and New Zealand have identified this need amongst food and beverage processing companies and have recently established a distribution partnership with Meritech USA for the NZ, Australian and Pacific Islands regions.

For further information in relation to these revolutionary systems, contact: Wells in Australia on +61 3 9699 8999 or email info@wrdwells.com; or in New Zealand on +64 9263 9332 or email sales@wellshygiene.co.nz; or visit the Wells web site at www.wrdwells.com/handhygiene.