1. Employment Food Safety Training Program
1/28/05
Personal Hygiene
Employment Food Safety Training Program
American Association of Meat Processors One Meating Place Elizabethtown, PA Phone: (717) Fax: (717) Website:
Sanitation

2. The Purpose of Personal Hygiene
To ensure the safety of the food you help make and the safety of the people who eat it.

3. Relating Personal Hygiene to You
If you are sick
If you have cuts or sores
What you do before arriving at work
When you get to work
When you leave the production area

4. Hygiene - If You Are Sick
With a serious illness
Could have a contagious illness
Spread to others
Spread to food
Should not come to work
With a cold
Take appropriate medication
Come to work
Advise supervisor of illness

5. Hygiene - If You Have Cuts or Sores
Always show wound to your supervisor
Open skin
Must be covered appropriately before handling food
May include:
New tattoos
Body piercings
Cuts
Sores

6. Hygiene - Before Arriving to Work
Take a shower
Put on clean clothes
Shave or trim beard
Pull hair back into pony tail or braid

7. Hygiene - Before Arriving to Work
Trim, clean and file fingernails
Remove fingernail polish or fake nails
Remove makeup, including fake eyelashes
Remove all jewelry

8. Hygiene – When You Get to Work
Make sure your shoes are clean
Put on hair net and beard net
Go through boot wash
Wash your hands thoroughly

9. Hygiene – When You Get to Work
Put on clean uniform
Go through the second boot wash
Wash your hands again
Put on gloves
Sanitize your gloves

10. Hygiene – When You Leave the Production Area
Remove uniform and place in “DIRTY” bin
Do not take personal protective equipment (PPE) to restroom or outdoors
Wash hands and put on clean uniform before returning to production area

11. Handwashing Activity

12. Personal Hygiene – Washing Hands
5 steps to proper hand washing
Pre-rinse hands (with as warm as you can tolerate)
Apply soap
Scrub vigorously for at least 20 seconds
(Make sure to get between fingers, around nails,
wrists and thumbs)
Rinse hands thoroughly
Dry with paper towel

13. When Must You Wash Your Hands?
Before you start to work
Before touching any of your PPE

14. When Must You Wash Your Hands AND Change Your Gloves?
After:
Coughing or sneezing into your hand
Touching or scratching your skin, hair, eyes or mouth
Making adjustments to clothing, earplugs, hairnets, etc..
Using a Kleenex to wipe or blow your nose

15. When Must You Wash Your Hands AND Change Your Gloves?
After:
Eating, drinking or smoking
Using the restroom
Picking an item up off of the floor
Handling brooms, boxes, labels, garbage, hoses, etc.
Each absence from your workstation

16. When Must You Wash Your Hands AND Change Your Gloves?
Before and after
Handling raw meat
Handling products containing allergens

17. Proper Hygiene - Gloves
Some important notes about gloves:
Not a substitute for clean hands
Wash hands before wearing
Change whenever a hole or tear appears
Condensation can escape
Remove only by hand washing sink

18. Proper Hygiene - Gloves
More important notes about gloves:
Throw away when leaving production area
Replace with new pair when you return to production area
Wash and sanitize frequently or change often

19. Hygiene – Personal Belongings
Storage of personal belongings
Leave in you locker
Storage of lunches, snacks and beverages
Store in coolers in designated areas in lunchroom

20. Final Thoughts
It is up to you to ensure the safety of the foods you help produce
Forming good personal hygiene habits
Strengthens your food safety skills
Sets a great example for fellow employees