SOP ON PROCEDURE FOR CLOTHING & PERSONAL HYGIENE
OBJECTIVE: To lay down the procedure for clothing and personal hygiene.
SCOPE: This procedure is applicable for clothing and personal hygiene.
RESPONSIBILITY:
Officer/ Manager – Personnel & Administration.
ACCOUNTABILITY:
Head QA – To ensure implementation of SOP.
PROCEDURE:
Personal Hygiene:
Clean outer protective clothing must be worn in all processing areas.
All personal / street clothing must be fully covered in ancillary area.
A clean set of company issue clothing must be collected each day from the linen.
Clothing must be change daily or whenever required.
Used clothing must be placed in the bin provided.
Company issue protective clothing must not be worn off the establishment.
Sitting is only permitted on the seat provided. Sitting on the any other structure is prohibited, to prevent contamination of clothing.
Footwear must be cleaned whenever entering or leaving the production area.
All hair must be fully covered at all times when in production areas.
This will require wearing a medical and if necessary a beard snood.
HANDLING OF DATA INTEGRITY
Lockers:
No clothing issued from linen to be stored in lockers.
Each employee is provided with a locker which must be kept clean and free of dust.
Dirty protective clothing , dirty or rusty equipment and food scraps and other rubbish must not be stored in lockers.
Personal or street clothes and company issue protective clothing must not be stored together. Footwear must be placed on the bottom of the locker or opposite of entry to manufacturing and packaging area and must not contact any other item.
Personnel Access:
Employees must not move from an restricted or dirty area to a clean area without first changing into clean outer protective clothing and footwear and thoroughly washing hands with IPA. This also applies to visitors and personnel.
Maintenance staff and personnel must not enter production areas without gowning and hair covering.
Visitors must be suitability attired for the area which they wish to visit.
