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KITCHEN-HYGIENE5 MIN READ

The Glove Is Not the Handwash

Identify when gloves create false confidence and handwashing is still required.

The risk is not the glove box; it is the skipped handwash after the phone. Find the personal-hygiene break before the garnish continues. Gloved hand that touched the phone before returning to food prep Correct. The phone contact means stop, remove gloves, wash hands, dry, then put on clean gloves. Box of clean disposable gloves Clean gloves are useful, but they do not replace the handwash step after contamination. Ready-to-eat plated garnish waiting nearby The plated food is vulnerable, but the break is the hand-to-phone-to-food path. personal hygiene Separated glove change from handwashing. Ask what the hand or glove touched…

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