Dear all:
There is a requirement in GMP mentioned that workers with open cut / sore etc are not allowed to work in the processing are. In this case we can send them to do other low risk job and a common plaster will do, right? Why we still need to use the special blue metal strip plaster – somebody bombarded me with this statement.
What Yorkshire mentioned is true. A friend of mine even suggest us to collect back the used plaster to ensure that no any single plaster will accidentally blended in your end product. Oh not, who dare to do this if the wound is full of pus!!!
A scenario for you Yong
a customer complains that they have found a "common plaster" in the product manufactured by you.
How will you demonstrate that it couldnt have come from your factory? no process is 100% fool proof.
if i was you id stick to blue plaster regardless where they are on site (including office staff). they're blue so that they can be visually detected as well as being metal detectable.
as an aside, you should check every batch of plasters you buy in through the
metal detector and record the date/ batch number etc.
as for "collecting used plaster" its a bit extreme, at the end of the shift all you will need to do is verify that the staff member still has the plaster on. if a plaster is needed next day, a new clean plaster should be issued at the start of the shift by a first aider.
im not a fan of plaster dispenser dotted around factories.....how can you control them?
Caz