Personal Hygiene

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What is Hygiene?Hygiene is the science of preserving and protecting

your health.Exp: personal hygiene, dental hygiene, food hygiene, medical hygiene…

What is Personal Hygiene?The Various methods a person takes to avoid infection, maintain cleanliness and ensure good health.

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Microbes

Microbes can be found virtually everywhere. They are in the air, the soil, and water, and in and on plants and animals, including us. A single teaspoon of topsoil contains about a billion bacterial cells (and about 120,000 fungal cells and some 25,000 algal cells). The human mouth is home to more than 500 species of bacteria.

Microbes: is a microorganism, esp. a bacterium causing disease or fermentation.

Where Can We find Microbes?

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Types of MicrobesMicrobes can be divided into six main types:Archaea, Bacteria, Fungi, Protista, Viruses, and Microbial Mergers. Archaea

These bacteria look-alikes are living fossils that are providing clues to the earliest forms of life on Earth.

BacteriaOften dismissed as “germs” that cause illness, bacteria help us do an amazing array of useful things, like make vitamins, break down some types of garbage, and maintain our atmosphere. Fungi

From a single-celled yeast to a 3.5-mile-wide mushroom, fungi do everything from helping to bake bread to recycling to decomposing waste.

ProtistaPlant-like algae produce much of the oxygen we breathe; animal-like protozoa (including the famous amoeba) help maintain the balance of microbial life. Viruses

Unable to do much of anything on their own, viruses go into host cells to reproduce, often wreaking havoc and causing disease. Their ability to move genetic information from one cell to another makes them useful for cloning DNA and could provide a way to deliver gene therapy.

Microbial MergersMergers and collaborations on a minute scale paved the way for higher life forms. Today, symbioses (the scientific terms for these mergers) help fertilize plants, construct coral reefs, and help us digest food.

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Personal Hygiene Technics

1. Washing Hands

Our hands can contains lots of harmful bacteria, that could cause diseases.

Exp: 1) Hepatitis A that can cause jaundice and diarrhea 2) Pseudomonas that can infect wounds 3) Shigella that can cause diarrhea 4) Haemophilus that can cause pinkeye (highly contagious.

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How to wash Hands

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After Visiting Toilet On entering the food room, after a break

and before handling any food After putting on or changing a dressing After combing or touching the hair, the

face, nose, mouth or ears After sneezing or using the tissue Before and after handling raw food

(meat, poultry…) After Handling waste food After using detergents After cleaning the tables or the dirty

utensils After touching your cloth or apron

When we Must wash our hands?

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Personal Hygiene Technics

2. Sanitizer

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Hand Sanitizer is not a replacement for washing hands

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Cuts and wounds and wounds should be covered with a waterproof dressing. The plasters should be coloured so they can be easily identified if they fall into food.

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3. Protecting the wounds

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4. Grooming

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Personal Hygiene at Work

1. Gloves

Wearing disposable gloves is essential specially when handling ready to eat food,but it should be used in a proper manner.

a) Always wash your hands before putting on the gloves, otherwise it will be infected by your dirty hands

b) Change your gloves anytime you need to wash your hands:1) After touching your body2) After using the toilet3) After eating or drinking4) After handling raw food5) After using or touching dirty equipment or utensils6) After any other activities that contaminate your gloves

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2. Cover you Hair using hair net or special cap

Make sure to cover your ears

3. Face Mask when handling raw food

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4. Clean and Suitable Uniform

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Kitchen suitable uniform:1) Hat or Hair net2) Long sleeve jacket3) Suitable pants4) Apron5) Safety shoes

N.B. : the uniform is only for work, street cloth and shoes are for outside

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Inform your supervisor if you exhibit the any of the following symptoms:

jaundice (yellowing of eyes and skin) diarrhea vomiting fever sore throat with fever boils or cuts discharges from ears, nose or eyes excessive coughing or sneezing

Health Issue

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General Rules

No jewelry when preparing food. (rings, earing, necklace …)

Flip flop are banned

Eating and smoking are prohibit at work place.

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Spot the Hazards

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Questions