What is the cleaning and sanitation of hands and footwear in food and beverage factories?
According to the Codex Alimentarius Commission (CAC) guidelines, the definition of hand and foot hygiene for food factory workers is as follows:
Hand Hygiene:
The CAC defines hand hygiene as the practices and procedures used to clean and disinfect the hands of food handlers in order to remove dirt, grease, and microorganisms, thereby preventing the potential contamination of food products.
This includes:
- Thorough handwashing with clean, running water and soap, followed by drying with single-use towels or a hot air dryer.
- Hand sanitizers or rubs are used when handwashing facilities are not immediately available.
- Maintaining clean, trimmed, and unpolished fingernails.
- Avoid wearing jewelry or other items that could harbor dirt or microorganisms.
Foot Hygiene:
The CAC defines foot hygiene as the practices and procedures used to clean and disinfect the footwear of food handlers to prevent the introduction and spread of contaminants within the food production environment.
This includes:
- Wearing dedicated, clean protective footwear (e.g., boots, shoe covers) when entering and moving within the food handling and processing areas.
- Disinfecting footwear by stepping through foot baths or sanitizing mats containing appropriate disinfectant solutions at designated entry points.
- They maintain the cleanliness and effectiveness of the foot hygiene stations through regular monitoring and replenishment of the disinfectant solutions.
The CAC emphasizes that proper hand and foot hygiene practices are essential to food factory workers’ overall personal hygiene requirements to ensure food safety and quality.
Therefore, we developed a personnel hygiene cleaning station in the hygienic entrance of workshops, a facility that organically combines hand cleaning and boot-washing disinfection.
What is a personnel hygiene station?
The personnel hygiene cleaning and disinfection station is also known as a personnel hygiene entrance. Generally, it has the different functions of hand cleaning and boot cleaning at the same time. Through organic combination, it is used at the entrance of workshops in many food and beverage factories. It is conducive to saving space and controlling the entry and exit of personnel.
What are the functions of the personnel hygiene station?
Hands cleaning and disinfection
- Hand induction cleaning
- Soap induction getting
- Hand induction drying
- Hand induction disinfection
Boots cleaning and disinfection
- Shoes and boots induction brushing and cleaning
- Shoes and boots disinfection
- Shoes and boots draining
Other functions
- Face recognition biometric lock
- Entry restricted by guard
Features of different personnel hygiene stations for entrance of workshops in the food industry
Hygiene entrance PBW-41E
- [Function]——Shoes and boots disinfection + hand washing, drying, disinfection + guard function
- [Space]——General workshop entrance/compact space
- [Features]——Single-person operation, small footprint
Hygiene entrance PBW-23
- [Function]—— Shoes and boots cleaning, disinfection + hand disinfection + guard function
- [Space]——Small space occupancy, especially suitable for narrow workshop entrances
- [Supporting]——Need to match traditional Washing sink or hand washing dryer
- [Highlights]——Mandatory hand disinfection/shoe cleaning and disinfection; movable to meet the needs of temporary places
Hygiene entrance PBW-24
- [Function]——Shoe disinfection + hand washing, drying, disinfection + guard function
- [Space]——General workshop entrance/compact space
- [Highlights]——Multiple people work on the same machine, independent interaction
Hygiene entrance PBW-21T
- [Function]——Shoe disinfection + hand disinfection + guard function
- [Space]——Small space occupation, especially suitable for narrow workshop entrance
- [Matching]——Need to match traditional washing sink or hand washing dryer
- [Highlights]——Mandatory hand disinfection/shoe disinfection; movable to meet the needs of temporary places
Hygiene entrance PBW-25
- [Function]——Face recognition + shoe cleaning, disinfection, draining + hand washing, drying, disinfection + guard function
- [Adaptation]——Workshops with strict safety protection/complete control requirements
- [Highlights]——Full function of hand and shoe cleaning is realized
Different areas within a food factory (e.g., raw material processing, cooked food processing, high-risk areas) may have unique hygiene requirements.
Providing cleaning stations with dedicated functions (e.g., hand washing, footwear disinfection, cleaning of protective equipment) allows for more targeted and effective hygiene control.
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