It's inferred that since it's says they will be located nearby, that you would write your procedure to state that PPE must be removed and hung on the hooks provided before entering the washroom
Wearing any PPE inside the washroom is gross and can lead to cross contamination issues
Wanted inputs if the following sharps control policy is adequate for a Bottling line which produces Wine:
1. We allow cutters to remain at their given stations in the bottling line (not checked in or out); cutters are not fixed to their stations
2. The cutters are engraved with codes specific to the station that they are used which is designated by a cutters map
3. Before production, Bottling staff inspects their cutters condition, checks the cutter code (if the cutter ID is correct for their station) and records the results.
4. Cutters failing inspection are replaced by the Manager who records the replacement day, cutter location, new cutter ID, adds cutter to the cutter log, engraves the new cutter and brings to the station
5. We only require daily sanitizing of cutters used to open primary packaging materials (corks, screwcaps)
NOTES: The bottling line uses cutters constantly to open up primary and secondary packaging materials and bottling staff gets in before their Managers who would be the ones to check out cutters. Due to this and \eadcount, we've determined checking in and out cutters each morning would be very difficult, would negatively impact production, require us to change people's shifts in order to comply and be a big pain.
Thoughts ?
Our risk assessment for not checking in/out cutters was that