I am writing up GMP's for a meat operation, and I am really on the fence about beard nets, to me they have an unintended consequence, we now have hands to the face area with the wearer adjusting it. I recently had a discuss with my FSIS inspector who told me at another facility he inspects an employees bread net was literally discolored from the seasonings he was working with, coming from his hands as he adjusted the beard net.
I would like to write into my GMP's something like; Any beard over 1/4" (the length of eyebrows or mustache) will be required to were a beard net.
That way I am not running into the questionable unshaven man on a Monday morning that did not shave all weekend, not having to deal with the hands to the mouth face area because the beard isn't even long enough to hold a net in place and is thus constantly being adjusted. I think we sometime put these feel good controls in place without really looking at the potential consequences, does anyone have any thoughts or experience with this or written such a criteria into their plan.
Thank you