Food hygiene is crucial to maintain because of its critical welfare issue for the crew members, so we need to consider other’s health, most especially in this case. Providing them a portion of healthy and nutritious food is better for the seafarers to get some energy for the whole duty onboard. We can get some diseases and foodborne outbreaks if we’re not strict regarding our food hygiene. Aside from maintaining our food, we should also need to start where we prepared and used to making food to avoid that may cause food contamination.
It is not only the food hygiene on boats, but we can also use this in some things because it is a food etiquette. Hygiene requires cleanliness, like practicing personal hygiene and other sterile workspaces. This article will teach us how the proper hygiene that we must do on boats. We can also get some ideas and techniques about good hygiene in every food that we eat. Continue reading this article to learn more about the proper maintaining food hygiene on boats.
Food Hygiene Training
Having proper training leads us to be clean. We avoided cross-contamination that we can close to get if we are not careful to prepare to serve the food. The catering staff, including the food handlers, should know about food safety and personal hygiene. Since we always face people when preparing food, maintaining cleanliness is necessary to prevent and protect the consumers from ill-health.
The persons responsible for these should generally cover the source of health concerns associated with various foods. They also have to know and learn the different types of food with toxins, spores, poisons, and other harmful food properties. Understanding the method of maintaining food hygiene is very meticulous, so we have to be careful. We need to study the temperature and other chilling processes for the meats, not easily addle. It’s crucial to avoid trouble, so proper training is required before diving into work to keep everyone safe.
Maintaining food hygiene is not enough, so we should have monitor the food handling, from the preparations up to regulate the professionals cooking provision onboard.
Cleaning Maintenance
If we keep clean and tidy of making food, we should also retain the place’s cleanliness where we prepare the menu. They should also know how to disinfect the area where they cook and serve onboard. Monitor to check all the sites around your kitchen, even the space that people don’t see. Make sure to put the garbage and empty food containers in a covered proper storage facility to safely away from foodstuffs.
Before serving the food, always check if it’s ready to do the fruits and vegetables primarily. Make sure it’s all washed before being eaten. Use separate utensils, chopping boards and cannot use for raw meats. To make everything easy and organize, organize all the tools base on their uniformity to look more clean and easy to find when needed. Don’t forget to check if there’s something of pieces of equipment in trouble so that it can fix immediately. And know the areas to disinfect it continuously so that you can follow the proper hygiene protocols.
Personal Hygiene
Food hygiene would be easy for you if you had the proper personal hygiene. It is also a manner that we have to practice, especially when we stay clean and prevent illness. Before and after eating, don’t forget to wash your hands with soap and clean water, especially after touching some equipment, money, or other things inside the kitchen. Regularly sanitize the ship surfaces, particularly the chairs and tables where crew members eat. Personal hygiene also includes having short nails, wearing a hairnet, uniforms with a clean apron. Never spit, smoke, coughing, sneezing and such things near the serving areas. Don’t get used to it, because it is inappropriate and not proper hygiene for food and personal.
These tips are essential to understand to have an etiquette about the food and even in personal hygiene. We should consider our health first and follow these protocols to avoid disease. It is also helping us to have any information on using and maintaining proper food hygiene on boats and in all aspects.