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[gmd]

Thank you David!! and yes we are being audited to V4 I am sure eventually we will get to V6.

[Tony-C]

I have a few questions about controlling band aids and I need all of your help. We are a high risk food packaging manufacturer and are trying for certification to Issue 4.  We don't use metal detectors but if we had one and tested the band aids and recorded the lots and then trained our employees to alert management if one comes up missing - would this be enough as far as controlling the band aids? 

 

 

I appreciate your help!

gmd

 

'These shall be company issued and monitored when involved in work in contact with high-risk materials'.

 

So a log is also necessary. The best system I have seen also numbered the band aid when issued and logged so there was no doubt about who it was issued to or in the worst case who lost it.

 

Regards,

 

Tony

[Simon]

Thank you David!! and yes we are being audited to V4 I am sure eventually we will get to V6.

 

If you are a food packaging company version 4 is the latest edition of the BRC Food Packaging Standard.  David must be a food company that's why he is working to the BRC Food Standard version 6.  Sorry I'm anal.

 

 

'These shall be company issued and monitored when involved in work in contact with high-risk materials'.

 

So a log is also necessary. The best system I have seen also numbered the band aid when issued and logged so there was no doubt about who it was issued to or in the worst case who lost it.

 

Regards,

 

Tony

 

Good idea Tony.

[Lexter Cruz]

Hello to all,

 

YongYM,

 

Actually there is not GMP requirement directly mandated to "that workers with open cut / sore etc are not allowed to work in the processing are" what was the standards says is under:

ISO/TS 22002-1:2009(E) and PAS 220:2008 13.6 Illness and injuries

In food handling areas, personnel with wounds or burns shall be required to cover them with specified dressings. Any lost dressing shall be reported to supervision immediately.  

 

For you GMD, 

 

So in order to control it, aside we already issued a MEMO across the factory that all employee with open wounds or burns are not allowed to work as part of Administrative Control. I revised and included the checking of employee for the presence of such open wounds/burns/lesions and others in our Daily GMP Checklist which the responsibility of checking was given to all Line Quality Controller. The recorded violation were being report by Factory Hygienist on WOR (weekly operations review) with the Management  on a weekly basis. See column for Personal Hygiene.

 

 F-GMP-004 FORM.LINE QC DAILY GMP CHECKLIST- FINAL.xls   217.5KB   80 downloads

 

Hope this can help you.

 

Thanks,

Factory Hygienist   

 

 

[Ruhama]

Dear all

 

Find the attached plaster register we are using in our factory.

 

Regards

Ruhama

Attached Files

•  Plaster and Gloves register.docx   39.42KB   92 downloads

[laetitiapot]

We have various colours of plasters here in South Africa but have also adopted the use of blue plasters. Our company is not large enough to use a metal detector but we have our registers in place

 

We prefer to have as many safety checks in place so all staff with any abrasions or cuts have to wear surgical gloves.  PLASTER REGISTER.pdf   394.23KB   52 downloads