Meat Safety Act, 2000 (Act No. 40 of 2000)Ostrich Regulations, 2007Part IV : Hygiene Requirements for Persons Entering Abattoirs61. Protective clothing |
| 1) | Protective clothing must be light coloured, clean, in good repair and must include safety hats, hair nets, beard nets, head and shoulder capes, white gumboots and safety boots compliant with hygiene requirements and waterproof aprons as required by the work situation. |
| 2) | At the start of each working day or shift, the owner must provide personnel with protective clothing. |
| 3) | The owner must ensure that such clean protective clothing is stored and handled so that it does not make contact with private clothes. |
| 4) | Private clothes must be kept in a locker that is reserved for that purpose only. |
| 5) | Protective clothing must be changed or cleaned when it becomes contaminated by obnoxious matter or becomes dirty. |
| 6) | The workers in the clean and dirty areas must wear distinctive protective clothing, respectively. |
| 7) | Protective clothing must completely cover all personal clothing. |
| 8) | Personnel may change into protective clothing only in appropriate change rooms and items of protective clothing left in the abattoir working areas may only be placed or hung in areas designated for these items. |
| 9) | Personnel may not sit or lie on the ground in their protective clothing during rest periods and may never wear protective clothing outside the premises. |
| 10) | The abattoir owner must provide laundry facilities or make use of a laundry service and personnel must not be allowed to take protective clothing home to be washed. |