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Code of Veterinary Practice For Poultry Processing Plant

14.0 PERSONNEL

Management should ensure that:
14.1 Persons engaged in handling live poultry should not be permitted
to be engaged in processing operations.
14.2 Employees rotating their duties during processing operations should
wash and sanitise their hands, aprons, knives, pouches and wash
their boots before moving to another work section.
14.3 Employees should wear clean protective outer garments at the
commencement of each day’s work.
14.4 Employees should remove protective aprons, gloves and equipment
before entering the toilet and wash their hands after using the toilet.
14.5 A rack should be provided to suspend employees’ aprons and
equipment when not in use.

14.6 Protective clothing provided to employees engaged on outside
work or handling live poultry should be readily identified and used
for that purpose only. Aprons must be kept clean and when not in
use suspended on a rack in an area apart from other aprons.
14.7 A person entering a section where unwrapped product is handled
should wear head covering of a type that will prevent hair from
falling onto the product.
14.8 Protective gloves including woven steel mesh gloves worn by
employees should be clean at the commencement of each day’s
work. Gloves should be replaced when deterioration or peeling
occurs. The wearing of gloves does not exempt the operator from
having thoroughly washed hands.
14.9 An employee whose clothing and body (as far as is visible) is not
clean should not take part in processing operations.

14.10 Employees should wash their hands, boots and aprons before
rejoining processing operations.

14.11 An employee suffering from an infectious disease, whether notifiable
by law or not, suffering from a skin infection or who has an open
wound or unclean bandage on an exposed part of the anatomy,
should not take part in processing operations.

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