9.4 Product Contact with Blood and Bodily Fluids

This standard operating procedure (SOP) should be implemented to safely and adequately respond to all incidents requiring cleaning and disinfecting body fluid spills. Body fluids are considered potentially infectious and include, but are not limited to, blood, vomit, urine, sweat, et cetera. Employees should always wear personal protective equipment when cleaning and disinfecting body fluid spills.

Procedure

1. If a food commodity comes into contact with bodily fluids, the operator should immediately halt work, stop the source of the fluid, and report to a supervisor to limit the spread to other commodities.
2. The spill area must immediately be blocked off to prevent additional inadvertent spread from other machines or employees.
3. If the moveable unit impacted by the spill is broken into subunits in the system, those impacted subunits must be removed to another pallet so that the spill does not spread to other subunits.
4. Once the spill has been stopped and the units have been segregated, they will be physically moved to the designated damaged/segregated triage area of the facility, and the commodity location will be updated to the DMG location. The same photographs and information will be recorded for any other commodity owner’s freight impacted by the spill.
5. Photographs of the spill on the moveable or sub-units will be taken showing the entirety of the spill, along with a record of the commodity owner, SKU, moveable unit number, and quantity impacted to be turned in to the office staff.
6. The office staff will check the photographs and commodity data for completion and accuracy and confirm that the moveable unit has been located in the DMG location in the system.
7. The area of the floor, columns, and any other component of the physical structure of the GWSI facility and equipment where the spill occurred, as well as the pathway to the triage area, must then be thoroughly cleaned using only solutions and cleaning utensils from the approved GWSI solutions and cleaning utensils list until all traces of the bodily fluid are removed. A supervisor will review and confirm that the cleanup has been satisfactorily completed.
8. The office staff will email all photographs and pertinent details to the commodity owner(s) explaining the spill and ask for cleanup or disposal disposition. The directions for either cleanup or disposal provided by the commodity owner will be carried out by GWSI staff under a supervisor’s review. The same procedure will be followed for any other freight owned by other GWSI customers impacted by the allergen exposure.