Sr. No.

Compliance Requirement

Applicability / Frequency

Records / Documents to Maintain

Health Status

1

Ensure persons known or suspected to be suffering from, or carriers of, any disease/illness likely to be transmitted through food are not permitted to enter food handling areas.

Ongoing

Health screening / illness reporting records

2

Establish a system requiring food handlers to immediately report illness or symptoms of illness to management.

Ongoing

Illness reporting procedure/register

3

Arrange medical examination of food handlers where clinically or epidemiologically indicated, in addition to periodic examinations.

As required

Medical examination reports

4

Ensure all food handlers/employees undergo medical examination at least once every year to verify freedom from infectious, contagious and other communicable diseases.

Annually

Annual medical examination records

5

Maintain medical examination records signed by a Registered Medical Practitioner and make them available for inspection.

Ongoing

Signed medical certificates/records

6

Ensure factory staff are inoculated/vaccinated against enteric group of diseases as per the recommended vaccination schedule.

As per vaccination schedule

Vaccination/inoculation records

7

During an epidemic, ensure all workers are vaccinated, irrespective of the normal vaccination schedule.

During epidemic

Vaccination records / epidemic-related instructions

Personal Cleanliness

8

Ensure food handlers maintain a high degree of personal cleanliness at all times.

Ongoing

Hygiene SOP / inspection checklist

9

Provide adequate and suitable clean protective clothing, head covering, face masks, gloves and footwear to food handlers.

Ongoing

PPE issue records / inventory

10

Ensure food handlers wear only clean protective clothing, head covering and footwear while working.

Daily

Hygiene monitoring records

11

Ensure food handlers wash hands with soap and clean potable water, disinfect hands and dry them appropriately before commencing food handling.

At commencement of food handling

Hand-washing SOP / hygiene inspection records

12

Ensure hands are washed and disinfected immediately after handling raw food or contaminated materials, tools, equipment or work surfaces, wherever cross-contamination may occur.

Ongoing

Hygiene monitoring records

13

Ensure hand washing is carried out after using the toilet.

Every occurrence

Hygiene inspection records

14

Prohibit food handlers from smoking, spitting, chewing, sneezing or coughing over food and from eating in food preparation/service areas.

Ongoing

Hygiene SOP / supervisory checks

15

Ensure food handlers trim nails and hair periodically and do not practise unhygienic habits while handling food.

Periodically / Ongoing

Personal hygiene checklist

16

Persons handling raw materials/food products shall maintain high standards of personal cleanliness at all times.

Ongoing

Hygiene inspection records

17

Prohibit smoking, spitting, eating or drinking in areas where raw materials or food products are handled or stored.

Ongoing

Hygiene monitoring records

18

Ensure food handlers wash their hands whenever work is resumed.

Each resumption of work

Hygiene monitoring records

19

Ensure hands are washed whenever contamination has occurred, including after coughing, sneezing, visiting the toilet, using a telephone, smoking, etc.

Every occurrence

Hygiene inspection records

20

Ensure food handlers avoid potentially hazardous hand habits such as touching/scratching the nose, hair, eyes, ears, mouth, beard or other body parts while handling food.

Ongoing

Employee hygiene training / inspection records

21

Where such hand contact is unavoidable, ensure hands are effectively washed before resuming food handling.

Every occurrence

Hygiene monitoring records

Visitors

22

Discourage visitors from entering food handling areas wherever possible.

Ongoing

Visitor control procedure

23

Ensure visitors do not compromise food safety and hygiene when entering floor/food handling areas.

Ongoing

Visitor monitoring records

24

Require visitors entering manufacturing, cooking, preparation, storage or handling areas, wherever appropriate, to wear protective clothing and footwear.

Every visit

Visitor PPE records/checklist

25

Ensure visitors comply with the applicable personal hygiene requirements prescribed for food handlers.

Every visit

Visitor hygiene declaration/checklist