Hi all,
Since our last SQF audit we've had increasing difficulty with retaining employees and enforcing basic policies like attendance and dress code. It's reached a point where our HR person doesn't abide by the GMP policy that we all agree to as employees. She conducts a new hire orientation weekly while wearing fake eyelashes, fake nails, and jewelry. Employees are noticing inconsistent enforcement of our policies.
A while back our food packaging facility wrote our GMP policy based in part on SQF Edition 8 - Module 13 guidance documents. Guidance for 13.3.4 specifically stated:
"Personnel.... should not be permitted to wear false fingernails, false eyelashes, eyelash extensions, long nails, or fingernail polish."
We now have employees (and supervisors!) pushing back against the GMP policies by wearing these items as well as body piercings.
So, not only do we now have high turnover causing hesitation to enforce GMP's, but Edition 9 guidance documents seem to have dropped the wording referring to fake lashes, nails, etc.
I'm wondering if there is still any reference to these items in the Edition 9 guidance documents?