Maintain hygiene in glass manufacturing and processing

URN: GQAGP16
Business Sectors (Suites): Glass Processing
Developed by: GQA
Approved on: 2020

Overview

This standard covers the skills and knowledge required to maintain hygiene requirements. It covers the monitoring of work practices and the identification of hygiene problems.  Many glass products have food, drink or medical applications and these products must satisfy stringent hygiene requirements.


Performance criteria

You must be able to:

  1. comply with health and safety requirements and procedures at all times
  2. identify factors affecting hygiene in the workplace
  3. confirm own work practices comply with legal hygiene requirements
  4. identify any problems in achieving the required hygiene work practices and inform appropriate people
  5. maintain own work area and equipment in a clean and hygienic condition
  6. maintain own personal hygiene to company standards
  7. identify any indications of potential hygiene problems
  8. take suitable actions where contamination of materials has occurred
  9. record information on hygiene in the appropriate information systems

Knowledge and Understanding

You need to know and understand:

  1. relevant health and safety responsibilities and obligations
  2. relevant health and safety procedures that need to be followed
  3. relevant hygiene requirements
  4. type of hygiene problems that could occur and standard operating procedures for dealing with these
  5. consequences of not applying hygiene requirements
  6. who should be informed of hygiene problems
  7. how to maintain hygiene of different work areas and equipment
  8. what action should be taken when contamination has been identified
  9. factors that affect hygiene in the working environment
  10. hygiene critical control points in the process
  11. information systems used
  12. why it is important to use information systems

Scope/range


Scope Performance


Scope Knowledge


Values


Behaviours


Skills


Glossary


Links To Other NOS


External Links


Version Number

2

Indicative Review Date

2025

Validity

Current

Status

Original

Originating Organisation

Proskills

Original URN

PROGP16

Relevant Occupations

Glass and Ceramic Maker Decorator Finisher

SOC Code

5441

Keywords

Glass Processing; decorator; unit maker; operator; packing; blower; cutter; painter; processor; cold end; craft; laminated; screen; warehousing