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[GMO]

I agree with the comments above... one rule for all...
but what about our muslim brothers and sisters? I also have this question in mind but I am still looking for the best answer that would satisfy my curiousity.

I work in UAE where most of the visitors are wearing their abaya and candoora, of course we cannot request them to remove them especially the ladies.

Are they obliged to wear hairnets or headgear?


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Regards,
FSB

I had a member of staff who was an Islamic lady who wore a headscarf, she simply wore the mob cap on top. Yes, it is one rule for all, it has to be. After all, if you permit people to wear their own headscarfs, how do you control the laundry of them? I have heard though of some factories organising laundered headscarfs, no idea if they do that in addition to a mob cap though.

We used to have a lot of Sikh men in one place I worked in and they used to wear turbans (obviously) and some also used to wear a cover over their beard. They still used to wear a mob cap and beard snood as well.

Cultural differences can be a big source of conflict in factories so it's far easier to have one rule for all if you can.

[wijit]

Crikey, old topic woken up?
From experience, and information from a BRC auditor I can suggest that all staff wear hairnet as it minimizes any grey area which may rasie debate. Not seeing hair is very different to somebody not having hair just as (from an earlier post) not seeing scalp damage/disease is very different to there being none.
You have to be both consistent and realistic, and the only consistent method is, as with jewellry, to have a blanket rule.
The basics are that we have to minimize as much as can be reasonably expected the risk of contaminating product with hair, we do this via mob cap and snood where required. Eye brows are less easy to control this way, unless you are to GMP audit continuously throughout the day to ensure mob caps are pulled down that far.
I must say though, the comparrison between asking someone with no hands to wash hands and this subject matter quite ridiculous. One can realistically say that it is not possible to wash what is clearly not there, but hair is a different beast.