I work at a place like this now. Food production. EVERYONE wears the steel / hard plastic safety shoes, even the receptionist. Maintenance gets a larger allowance as our shoes need to be electrical rated. Shoes are required to be kept in the plant or locker area except for the half dozen or so maintenance people that work outside. No wearing them home. We are required to wear neon green shoe laces for easy recognition. My son works for a different food plant that uses bright orange shoelaces. Where he worked before that place used purple. When entering the plant floor from the locker / lunchroom areas, one NEEDS to use the shoe scrubber with the biocide spray and also walk through the foam pile of biocide on the floor. We used to have high care areas that required more stringent cleaning when one got to the actual food area. Visitors get rubber booties that slip over street shoes. The kind people keep in their cars for rain when they are dressed up. Hip length smocks, no pockets above the belt, hairnet, hardhats, beard nets, scrub / don gloves / scrub / spray the hands whenever entering an uncovered food area. Even tools get cleaned if used near a food contact surface.
UPDATE: We just had an audit from representatives of another nation’s health service. Apparently the main corporate offices are trying to close a deal with the Korean (South, I think) health agency to buy our syringes and their officials wanted to see our operation. Beefing up our procedures to impress them makes sense. New shoes and smocks for the staff and doubling the time allotted for daily cleaning factor into this. Over the last few weeks, management has also paid for a lot of cosmetic repairs that they’ve long neglected. The place looks better than I’ve seen for a long time.
No word yet on what the Korean observers thought. Hopefully, I’ll hear something tomorrow.