Our company is currently doing temperature checks at the door and requiring employees and visitors to fill out symptom questionnaires. I would very much like to get away from this but have been confused about this amendment. Mainly the term "screening" which seems to be throwing everyone off.
I currently have in our GMPs something similar to what Spidey has volunteered. That it is the employees responsibility to notify management if they knowingly are infected with any foodborne illness or are experiencing symptoms. How to manage open sores, and exposed cuts, etc. I also have written a procedure incase symptoms begin occurring on the production floor during a shift and not just before an employee comes into work. To accompany this, I have added an illness report which will document the procedures taken incase this occurs. Training will take place yearly and refresher training as needed with accompanying documents.
GMP Visitor agreement includes the above information and I am thinking about adding a statement on the daily visitor log in for visitors to confirm that they are presently not known carriers of any foodborne illness and are not experiencing symptoms.
Do you think this is acceptable and enough to do away with the pesky temperature checks because they are annoying everyone. Thank you :)