Understand how to maintain personal hygiene standards in food and drink operations
Overview
This standard is about the knowledge needed to maintain personal hygiene standards in food and drink operations. It is important to keep yourself and the workplace clean and hygienic. It is also essential to maintain the quality of the final product.
You will need to know and understand the types of protective clothing, headgear and equipment you need for your work and why it is important to have clean hair, skin, nails and clothing. You will also need to know and understand why it is important to keep work areas clean and tidy.
This standard is for you if you work in food and drink operations or animal feed operations and your job requires you to enter the food manufacturing or processing area.
Performance criteria
You must be able to:
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IMPFS101S Maintain personal hygiene standards in food and drink operations
Knowledge and Understanding
You need to know and understand:
- why it is important to have clean hair, skin, nails and clothing
- how jewellery and other accessories may put food safety at risk
- the types of protective clothing and headgear that should be worn
- why it is important to follow the recommended procedures to wash hands
- the types of unsafe behaviour that may impact on the safety of food
- why it is important to avoid unsafe behaviour when working with food
- why it is important to report any cuts, boils, grazes and injuries
- why it is important to report illness and infections, particularly stomach illnesses, before entering the production area
- why it is important to keep work areas clean and tidy
- why it is important to keep tools, utensils and equipment in good order, clean condition and stored correctly
- the types of food waste in the workplace
- how food waste should be safely handled in the workplace
- what product contamination and cross-contamination are and how to minimise the risk of them occurring through your work practices
- why the direct handling of food should be kept to a minimum