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 identi ed 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 Anemployeesufferingfromaninfectiousdisease,whethernoti able 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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