Personal hygiene awareness among food handlers

Hajdinjak, Špela (author), Jevšnik Podlesnik, Mojca (author)

In the globalization and rapid industrial development times food safety assurance is one of the basic conditions for protection of public health. For this purpose knowledge and awareness of personal hygiene among food handlers were determined in one of the middle-sized meat processing plants. It was found out that food handlers are aware of personal hygiene, but do not always practice it. Were observed problems in inter – social relations and communication difficulties at all levels, which can influence on quality of work performed and consequently on food safety assurance. Awareness of importance of good hygiene practice is based upon sense and is not uniformed. Periodicall, thematicall and methodologicall adapted trainings are crucial for food safety.

• Language: English
• Keywords: food safety, personal hygiene, employees, food industry
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: ZF - Faculty of Health Sciences
• Year: 2008
• Number of pages: Str. 40-48
• Numbering: Vol. 2, no. 1
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-113089
• UDC: 613.2
• ISSN on article: 1854-0678
• COBISS.SI-ID: 3246443
• Publication date in RUL: 02.12.2019

HAJDINJAK, Špela and JEVŠNIK PODLESNIK, Mojca, 2008, Personal hygiene awareness among food handlers. Sanitarno inženirstvo [online]. 2008. Vol. 2, no. 1, p. 40–48. [Accessed 16 June 2025]. Retrieved from: https://repozitorij.uni-lj.si/IzpisGradiva.php?lang=eng&id=113089

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Sanitarno inženirstvo
• Publisher: Inštitut za sanitarno inženirstvo, Zbornica sanitarnih inženirjev Slovenije
• ISSN: 1854-0678
• COBISS.SI-ID: 216969216

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• License: CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
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• Licensing start date: 02.12.2019

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Keywords: varna hrana, osebna higiena, zaposleni, živilska industrija