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Post by Rick Ramsay on Apr 13, 2015 7:47:14 GMT -5
So I was thinking about this today, mostly because my head is now shaved, and it does actually strike me a little odd.
So if you shave your face (well if guys do) they don't have to wear a beard net (or snood or whatever everyone calls it) but if you shave your head you still have to wear a hairnet.
The other two food plants I've worked at had the same policy so it is what it is... but what is the actual intelligent reasoning behind it?
Hair follicle will fall out? Dandruff? Because everyone else is being told to do it?
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Post by itrainsinside on Apr 13, 2015 12:32:37 GMT -5
I do pretty much every orientation for my plant and I have to cover this, I just straight up tell people it's an FDA thing and I dont understand it either. Someone making much more money than I do picked these rules, Im just the messenger!
What about eyebrows?
What about women with facial hair?
What about arm hair???
If you find out - let me know cause I'd love to have an answer instead of dodging this every time!
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Post by Rick Ramsay on Apr 13, 2015 12:43:28 GMT -5
It was kind of a joke at the Italian pasta plant I worked at where they said they never understood why you had to wear a beard net when the Italians had such thick arm hair and there was no requirement for them to cover it. I'm only 1/2 Italian so my arm hair isn't as thick and dark  |
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Post by martha on Apr 13, 2015 15:41:20 GMT -5
Quoting 21 CFR here: PART 110 -- CURRENT GOOD MANUFACTURING PRACTICE IN MANUFACTURING, PACKING, OR HOLDING HUMAN FOOD Subpart A--General Provisions Sec. 110.10 Personnel. The plant management shall take all reasonable measures and precautions to ensure the following: ... (b) Cleanliness. All persons working in direct contact with food, food-contact surfaces, and food-packaging materials shall conform to hygienic practices while on duty to the extent necessary to protect against contamination of food. The methods for maintaining cleanliness include, but are not limited to: ... (6) Wearing, where appropriate, in an effective manner, hair nets, headbands, caps, beard covers, or other effective hair restraints. ... (9) Taking any other necessary precautions to protect against contamination of food, food-contact surfaces, or food-packaging materials with microorganisms or foreign substances including, but not limited to, perspiration, hair, cosmetics, tobacco, chemicals, and medicines applied to the skin. Sounds to me that arm hair would be covered (pun intended) by (9). And (6) implies that you need the nets to confine hair, so if you don't have hair, you should not have to wear. (It's poetic!) How these rules are applied by various and sundry establishments, certification bodies, or inspectors, may be subject to their interpretation. I'm not sure I want to argue with an auditor because a worker is bald but does not put on a hair net. And I'm not going to point out the arm hair on a worker to an auditor and ask their opinion.  |
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