Failure to Use Hair Restraint During Meal Service
Penalty
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Summary
A deficiency was identified when a kitchen aide was observed serving the noon meal in a second-floor dining room without wearing a hair restraint, as required by the facility's Personal Hygiene policy. The policy, dated 12/27/24, specifies that all dining and nutritional services associates must wear a hairnet or beard restraint in food preparation, production, and serving areas to promote personal hygiene and infection control. During the observation, the kitchen aide admitted to forgetting to put on a hair net. The Dietary Manager confirmed that staff are expected to wear hair restraints to prevent hair follicles from contaminating food served to residents. This lapse had the potential to affect 54 residents receiving an oral diet.