I truly appreciate the help but I'm still a little confused.
qsa said Agree with the trainer/BRC auditor in the aspect of "must change their clothes".
Don't see an issue with the change into smocks by your plant employees as meeting "dedicated clothing" requirement so long as they cover "street clothing".
My quesiton is do they need to change their cloths or is wearing a smock over the street cloths acceptable for working in a high risk area?
As for the boots, our team members wear their boots all over the plant, however we do have automatic boot washers they must use before entering a processing room. What I'm understanding is that will have to stop and we will need to build dedicated smock/boot/hand washing rooms before entering the high risk processing area. And this room MUST have segratgation from one step to the other so not to cross contaminate.
Again I see Mark mentioning: They will be looking for segregation, such as phsical cross over bench/ barriers, for certain stages so some one cannot just walk straight into where the clean smocks are with outdoor clothing on.
This has be thinking we must change cloths and that we can not just use a smock to cover out street clothes.
Thank you all for the help. This web site is so helpful.
Yes, it is normally considered to be fine to wear a full long sleaved coat over normal clothing.
You don't necessarily need separate rooms. This is 'normal' practice for entering a high care or high risk area:
One side of a barrier, you will have lockers for personal items where outdoor coats etc are stored and outdoor shoes. In this area, you would put on a mob cap and beard snood if necessary. You would then swing your legs over a low barrier.
Then you would pick up your high care / high risk captive boots or shoes. Put them on.
At this point you then need to wash and sanitise your hands. This hand wash step is to protect the clean coat from contamination.
You then put on your clean coat. Then you wash and sanitise your hands again (this second hand wash can be at the entrance of the production room if you like). This second hand wash is to protect the product.
It's not realistic and not safe to expect a full clothing change. The reason for this is it's impractical; do people really get changed all the time from underwear up if they're popping out for one thing? No! The second reason is you cannot put trousers or a boiler suit on hygienically. They always drag on the floor to some degree. Therefore a long sleeved, knee length (or longer) coat is often the best idea from a hygiene point of view and used in high risk factories in many places I've worked in.
You can if you like issue work trousers to staff but they should not constitute part of the hygienic workwear for high risk / high care staff (fine for low risk).