Paul Barnhill is Chief Operations Officer and head Engineer at Meritech, the leader in automated employee hygiene. He has over 28 years of experience working with professionals in food manufacturing, healthcare, and foodservice to understand the challenges they face when creating hygiene programs and how to overcome these obstacles through education and automated technologies. Helping food processing and packaging facilities produce safe and healthy products through hygiene excellence is a passion for him and he often speaks on best practices in hand hygiene, footwear sanitation, and the science behind pathogen removal.
Recent Posts by Paul Barnhill:
by Paul Barnhill, on March 30,2020
Now that you’ve created a food safety culture, it’s time to discuss how to maintain and reinforce this new culture at your facility. Please note this is the fourth post …
Read Storyby Paul Barnhill, on March 27,2020
This is the third article in our continued discussion about food safety culture. If you have not read the previous posts, check out post 1 and 2 here. Hygiene essentially …
Read Storyby Paul Barnhill, on March 11,2020
Welcome to the second post in Meritech's continuing series on food safety culture! The previous post discussed the importance of building a food safety culture into your organization. This time, …
Read Storyby Paul Barnhill, on February 20,2020
Unquestionably, food safety is a primary focus for every food manufacturer. However, while a lot of effort is put into food safety processes and procedures, many of these don’t account …
Read Storyby Paul Barnhill, on June 20,2019
An effective shoe sanitizing program is critical in preventing employee work shoes from contaminating food production zones and ultimately finished food products. In this blog, we'll explore why standard practices …
Read Storyby Paul Barnhill, on May 21,2019
Choosing the Best Work Boots to Use with Boot Scrubbers Protection, comfort and durability are typically the main considerations when first evaluating a footwear solution for your food production facility …
Read Storyby Paul Barnhill, on April 18,2019
Clean room classification is one of the most complex – yet essential – parts of designing and building a clean room. There are many important questions that need to be …
Read Storyby Paul Barnhill, on May 15,2018
Everyone understands the importance of good hand hygiene, but the reality is that out in the real world… most people don’t understand the power of hand hygiene to reduce the …
Read Storyby Paul Barnhill, on April 6,2016
If you're one of 22 million people setting sail on a cruise ship vacation this year, you should listen up! Even though cruise lines have taken steps recently to raise …
Read Storyby Paul Barnhill, on March 6,2015
Food Safety Audits - What To Do Next? When an internal food safety audit reveals holes in your safety and sanitation processes, take heart. Considering the frequency of foodborne illness …
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