We produce direct food contact cartonboard packaging. For the past 20 years our production team have worn hair nets, beard snoods, shoe covers and long sleeve jackets with no external pockets.
During a recent audit it was raised that we were not required to wear the long sleeve jackets and they could be replaced with short sleeve "scrub tops" as long as they had no external pockets and were only worn in the same production areas as the long sleeve jackets were.
My concern is that whilst one auditor may think this acceptable another one might not and raise a non-conformance.
We have to wear hair nets and beard snoods to protect against the risk of lose of hair - people have hair on their arms and if we move to short sleeves we will have nothing to protect this from potentially contaminating finished product.
Im interested to hear what other people do in a similar position.
Thank you,
Andrew