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[Dian Yodana]

Hi All,

 

Let me introduced myself. I am Dian. I works in a Food Manufacturing. I want to know how you sanitizes eyeglasses and personnel mobile phone before entering your production site? 

 

I try to search the best option to sanitize without damaging the eyeglasses and mobile phone it self.

 

Hope I can find the suggestion in this forum.

 

Thank you.

[Pran]

Hi All,

 

Let me introduced myself. I am Dian. I works in a Food Manufacturing. I want to know how you sanitizes eyeglasses and personnel mobile phone before entering your production site? 

 

I try to search the best option to sanitize without damaging the eyeglasses and mobile phone it self.

 

Hope I can find the suggestion in this forum.

 

Thank you.

You can use IPA 70% based commercial solution . 

If the food preparation area is very sensitive , verify the efficacy of disinfectant 

[Dian Yodana]

Hi Prana,

 

Thank you for your feedback. Do you think it will not damage eyeglasses and mobile phone if often spraying with IPA 70% based?

[GMO]

What kind of production facility do you have?

 

For high care or high risk, I have had wipes available for mobile phones.  We only allowed company issued mobiles in which neatly got around any objections on potential damage.  For glasses, we said no cases, but honestly didn't ask for them to be sanitised.  It's a good point though, especially for reading glasses which you will be taking on and off repeatedly.  Thinking outside of the box though, if you could keep your glasses in your high hygiene area, that would help.  But then you'll be in the realms of buying them for your staff and providing storage. 

 

I would say though that bigger risks exist in terms of barrier control than this (in almost every high care and high risk factory I visit I will find problems with their barrier control which are much more significant than this.)  So I might be inclined to let the glasses things go on the basis of low risk.  Phones, not so much.  I tell you why... people use them on the toilet...  

[TimG]

As far as phone covers, I had looked into some 'disposable anti-microbial phone covers'. I think the company I was looking at was called smart sleeves. You can use most smart phones with it, use it similar to a hairnet but for your phone.

You're probably going to want to limit phones to only those who require them in your high-risk areas (maintenance, management, someone who is required to take pictures for an internal inspection, etc.), and then those on that small list who require them will be trained and authorized to use them as long as a fresh phone cover is used.

[rmaxfield62]

What about using a UV sanitizing box?

[SQFconsultant]

We only allow company issued and use a UV box prior to entrance that triggers the door.

[G M]

Eyeglasses are treated the same as your face.  You're supposed to go wash your hands after contact.

 

Electronic devices are a problem, portable devices of all sorts, but phones especially.  Best practice would probably involve:

• restricting the personnel allowed to bring them into production to a very limited list of people who need them to do their jobs;
• limiting use to a set of devices provided by the company;
• subjecting those company devices to a sanitizing and integrity review process.

 

I'd like to say I've seen lots of companies using best practices for mobile devices, but I haven't.

[G M]

We only allow company issued and use a UV box prior to entrance that triggers the door.

 

What power level and time did you validate your sanitizing process to?

 

What model did you find without too convoluted a surface that wasn't a glass body?

[GMO]

What power level and time did you validate your sanitizing process to?

 

What model did you find without too convoluted a surface that wasn't a glass body?

 

I can see where you're going with that and I would doubt efficacy as well.

[Dian Yodana]

Thank you for the feedback. Actually our production facility is low risk.

What kind of production facility do you have?

 

For high care or high risk, I have had wipes available for mobile phones.  We only allowed company issued mobiles in which neatly got around any objections on potential damage.  For glasses, we said no cases, but honestly didn't ask for them to be sanitised.  It's a good point though, especially for reading glasses which you will be taking on and off repeatedly.  Thinking outside of the box though, if you could keep your glasses in your high hygiene area, that would help.  But then you'll be in the realms of buying them for your staff and providing storage. 

 

I would say though that bigger risks exist in terms of barrier control than this (in almost every high care and high risk factory I visit I will find problems with their barrier control which are much more significant than this.)  So I might be inclined to let the glasses things go on the basis of low risk.  Phones, not so much.  I tell you why... people use them on the toilet...  

[GMO]

If your production facility is low risk, you don't need to do this at all would be my advice.  

 

(What are you making?  Just so we can be sure we're advising correctly?)

[jfrey123]

We don't have any established regs on sanitizing eyeglasses or personal phones.  We prohibit use of personal phones in storage and production areas at my sites, so that's how we would argue that there isn't a risk based need to sanitize them.  Company provided/approved electronics are cleaned with some sanitizing wipes at a frequency I can't remember.

 

The eyeglasses are an item I'll admit I hadn't considered.  I liked an above reply to treat them like someone's face:  I don't require employees to wash their face when they enter production, eyeglasses go on a face, so similar risk.  If an employee engaged in direct food handling touches their face, or has to touch their glasses by proxy, they'd need to go rewash their hands before continuing work.

[Dian Yodana]

Dear All,

 

Thank you so much for your replied. It very help full for us. Actually our manufacture is Biscuit and now we has implementing prohibit employee in production and warehouse area to bring their mobile phone, except for some key person.

 

And we also have implemented sanitized the mobile phone dan eyeglasses before entering production and warehouse area. But, we just thinking if there any best option. 

 

And agree to the suggestion for the eyeglasses we can implement as face. So, we will start to implementing it.

 

So, thank you so much all.