High risk and high care clothes
Hi!
I was wondering if someone could share good practices with high risk and high care clothes.
We are a meat product and ready meals company. Our production sites are not recently built so the facilities have limited room for changing into high risk clothes. Our solution before BRC has been the following:
1. employees take clothes from clothes storage, where high risk and low risk clothes are stored separately and hands disinfected before entrance
2. high risk employees change into high risk clothes in a locker room reserved for high risk employees
3. high risk clothes are covered with a longer jacket (below knees)
4. employees walk to designated high risk hygiene entrance room, where hands are washed, shoes washed and disinfected or changed an the outer jacket removed
5. in production the employees in contact with high risk products use disposable sleeves and gloves to reduce risk of contact with the product
6. during breaks the high risk clothes are again covered with the longer jacket
During our BRC audit our auditor has questioned heavily our process with the high risk clothes. According to him the high risk clothes should be transferred to high risk area entrance room fully covered (packed) and changed there. The problem is that we don't have enough room in the hygiene entrance to store clothes and we would definitely not want to pack the jackets one-by-one in plastic. The idea doesn't combine well with sustainability targets.
We have done sampling on the jackets and based on that the process is working well.
Any good solutions?
Anne
In the past, my facility used disposable frocks in our RTE room.
Did you receive a non conformance, or just a lot of questions?
If it was just questions, then perhaps the auditor was just ensuring they understood your process fully, so don't change a thing
I would add disposable aprons to the mix, if you think you need to change anything
use other color of High Care/Risk clothes. You can also use a drum or any container instead of cabinet, to secure only the High Care/Risk clothes.
Hi Anne,
It sounds like you have a definite problem.
This is a BRC speciality as demonstrated by the related Standard's voluminous text Clauses.
The clothing requirements/Guidance are also considerably amplified in the BRC Intepretation Guidelines.
Can study the attachment in this Post but note that this is the 1st edition -