How to Wear a Beard Snood

Hairnets and beard snoods are a simple and easy way of ensuring your food production and manufacturing is done in a safe and hygienic manner. 

One of the biggest issues in food production is hair, and often these issues arise from hair loss from beards. 

This is how you wear a beard snood: 

1.    Hold the beard snood open with one hand while pulling the elastic over your head with the other. 

2.    Secure the elastic to the back of the head in a comfortable manner. 

3.    Pull the beard snood over your nose to ensure you protect your moustache and cheek hair. 

4.    While keeping the beard snood over your nose, ensure the beard snood is also pulled under the chin to properly cover all facial and neck hair. 

5.    Check that the beard snood elastic is still secure around the ears and head. 

6.    Once your beard snood is secured, then put your hairnet on. Ensuring that the beard snood closures are covered by the hairnet will provide extra security and keep both the beard snood and hairnet in place.

When should you wear a beard snood? 

Knowing when to wear a beard snood will vary per person, but there are some basic metrics which could indicate if you need to wear a beard snood. 

For example, if you are likely to shed six times more hairs from your beard as you are from your head, you should wear a beard snood. Or, if your beard growth rate is between 0.27 and 0.4mm in 24 hours. 

Hair loss from beards offers a more serious hygienic risk as facial hair harbours more germs than other hair as facial hair is coarser than other hair so tends to trap dirt and germs more easily. 

So, it’s vital that any long bearded workers, or those who have a high rate of hair loss from their facial hair, wear a beard snood when working in food manufacturing or services.For more information on food hygiene personal protective wear, don’t hesitate to get in touch with our friendly, expert team on 01686 611 377, today.

Written by Laura Mallinson for Morsafe Supplies.