BRC 7.5 - How about zippers?
BRC 7.5 is about protective clothing.
It is common to:
- cover all private clothing with protective clothing. with special care to hoods and close the above button;
- not to wear protective clothing in toilets, smoking rooms and canteens.
What do you think of zippers on personal clothing? Do you know these sweat-shirts and fleece-vests with a large (high) collar with a zipper? The zipper always is above the highest button of the protective clothing. Do you think, this is a food contamination risk to be considered?
Are there companies with rules regarding the wearing of these zippers?
Thanks on forehand.
and sorry to you all.
In our case we prohibit wearing of clothes with zippers or you wear and have the zipper (pulling part) removed.This is checked by the hygiene supervisor before issuing the personnel with a protective clothing.
Regards,
Kamwenji
Can anyone post a photo of this protective clothing with a zipper. I cannot visualise it.
Regards,
Simon
Madam A. D-tor is referring to zippers on personal clothing:
Dear All,
What do you think of zippers on personal clothing? Do you know these sweat-shirts and fleece-vests with a large (high) collar with a zipper? The zipper always is above the highest button of the protective clothing.
This is a good point. We used to provide suitable body warmers with studs so there was no need to wear such clothing.
Such clothing could represent a serious foreign body hazard and so should be banned unless deemed not to be a hazard by risk assessment
Regards,
Tony
I am finding this thread interesting but very confusing.
What is the protection against ? Or are we talking about something like a corset with a zip ?? I agree with Simon, a picture might be helpful.
Rgds / Charles.C
[added - I did a little googling, I see what you mean about the fleece-vest, the sweat shirts seemed rather variable (esp. opacity, thks Heidi Klum
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Attached you find some examples of personal clothes with maybe a product contamination risk.
It is hard to see on this pictures, but the zippers go all to the top site of the collar. (I am sorry for my bad English).
Mostly the protective clothing do not close that high. The zipper, the metal or plastic pulling part, or some attached decorative elements hang above the protective clothing. Do you think this is a hazard for product contamination. (similair to jewellery)
Also attached, two (not so good) pictures from internet, showing the potential hazard.
Attached Files
after quite long time I am back again :)
this will be a quick message , if the zipper is plastic ; it would be a high risk for contamination , so its better not to use it.. But if its is a metal ; than you can make your own risk assessment since (I guess) you will have a metal detector at the end of your production line . And if this is not an acceptable risk ; here you have two choices ;
1- forbid the use of cloths like sweets having a zipper at top,
2- use much protective overals like the ones used in microlabs ,chemical labs .
you can also use some protective cloth just for necks during winter.
(for these I would like to send some photos as attached but couldnt do that since I do not have a permission ...)
(Simon , what can I do for this by the way ?)
but please do not forget what ever you use; you have to prove it by a risk assessment (likelihood of the contamination of a zipper particle into you final product can be a good point to start.)
hope this will help :)
Aegean
Regards,
Simon
Will use your advice for the next time .
Thanks for this,
Aegean
You can attach word documents to posts, although if you want to attach images you are better off extracting them from the word document and saving them as gif or jpeg and then attaching those to your post. Like I said you can always email me and I will post them for you.thanks , I tried to send the photos as a word doc but it didnt permit.
Will use your advice for the next time .
Thanks for this,
Aegean
Regards,
Simon
if anyone find the supply in uk please post it
and thank for the subject
bibi
(Nice hearing from you again)
Your post brings us back to the start:
* Did you include this as a hazard in your hazard analyses?
* Do you yourself consider those collars and zippers as a contamination risk?
(I found someone with a broken puller of the zipper, but he told me that this had happened at home)
* how did the workers react?
* Did the company provide special protective clothing?
For the hoods: I think this is a risk. Especially for the contact with hair.
I don't think a zipper is a contamination risk, I think the collar or hood is more because of hairs which fall on this when the person is outside the area will then likely fall on your coat, then into food etc.
The workers do what I say! I rule with a rod of iron! Seriously, we've had the rule from day 1 which makes it easier. People don't think to question it.
No special clothing. Just knee length routine bog standard food coat. Most collars and hoods are possible to put underneath a coat like that.
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Sorry not been around much. Dr GMO despite my profile pic is pregnant and so very busy and very tired. I may be keeping in touch throughout my maternity leave though to keep my hand in!
Well congratulations!!! when is the big event????
Cazxxx