Our Safety guy is good. He has 20+ yrs experience and can cite regulations all day. He's been studying Canadian regulations but hasn't found anything about band aids needing to be recorded.
As I stated, if your inspector asks for something like this, just do it. And BTW they will cite a portion of the regulation like this (as an example)
Part 4: Preventive Controls
Summary
46. Part 4 contains the majority of the food safety provisions in the SFCR.
Part 4 covers two key concepts:
- Preventive Controls
- Preventive controls refer to a combination of measures that form a system to control risks to food and to humane treatment of food animals during slaughter activities.
12.2 Illness and injuries Some symptoms of illnesses that should be reported to management so that the need for possible exclusion from food handling and/or medical examination can be considered include: jaundice; diarrhoea; vomiting; fever; sore throat with fever; visibly infected skin lesions (boils, cuts, etc.); and discharges from the ear, eye, or nose. Personnel with cuts and wounds should, where necessary, be assigned to work in areas where they will have no direct contact with food. Where personnel are permitted to continue working, cuts and wounds should be covered by suitable waterproof plasters and, where appropriate, gloves. Appropriate measures should be applied to ensure plasters do not become a source of contamination (e.g. plasters of contrasting colour compared to the food and/or detectable using a metal detector or X-ray detector)
To ensure they don't become a source of contamination, you should know which employees currently have one on