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Sample Personal Hygiene Code for Food Service Personel

1. All personnel entering the receiving or processing areas shall wear the approved protective uniform. The processing area uniform shall consist of rubber boots, white smock and white hair-net cap, white hair net beard snood and mustache snood if applicable.

2. Protective clothing shall be worn only immediately prior to entering or while working in the area designated for its use. Protective clothing shall not be worn outside the area designated for its use, especially in the eating/ smoking area, outside the facility or in the bath rooms. Protective clothing shall be turned in at the end of each work shift for in-house laundering. Protective rubber boots shall not be worn outside the facility.

3. Personnel hair and facial hair shall be fully enclosed within the hair-net cap or facial hair snood while in the processing area.

4. No jewelry shall be worn in the processing area.

5. No perfume or body scent shall be worn by processing personnel.

6. Fingernails shall be kept short, neat and clean.

7. All wounds cuts, sores, infections or abrasions shall be reported to the office and covered with disposable sanitary bandage material.

8. All personnel must thoroughly wash their hands and rinse them with chlorine dip (water chlorinated to 50 PPM) or other H.I.S.-approved sanitizer each time they enter a food-contact area.

9. Smoking and eating shall only be allowed in the designated rest area.

10. Any personnel suffering from infectious disease, including flu, stomach complaints or food poisoning shall report to the office for evaluation prior to returning to work

11. No glass in food-contact areas.