Assessment of Food Handler's Compliance to Personal Hygiene Practives Regulation in Selected Food Premises(P3 Catagories) in Kuching, Sarawak

• Main Author: Nur Athirah, Bunsu
• Format: Final Year Project Report
• Language: English; English
• Published: Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, (UNIMAS) 2022
• Subjects: QA Mathematics
• Online Access: http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/39880/1/NUR%20ATHIRAH%20BINTI%20BUNSU%2024pgs.pdf; http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/39880/2/NUR%20ATHIRAH%20BINTI%20BUNSU%20ft.pdf; http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/39880/

Foodborne illness usually caused by the exposure or contamination of microbes. Personal hygiene of food handler throughout the serving process plays an important role in ensuring consumers are not exposed to microbes that cause foodborne illness. This study implemented with a population size of 300 food handlers around Kuching, Sarawak. It aims to assess food handler’s compliance to personal hygiene practices regulation, data and information gathering as well as intended to statistically determine the level of hygienic practices among food handlers. General methodology used was descriptive cross-sectional study where compliance survey and observation checklist are needed to be fill in so that data can be collected, observe, and analyze. Throughout the research and assessment session, results and findings obtained indicates that food handlers around Kuching, Sarawak have a good level of hygiene, attitudes, and execution during handling food. Evidently, there are high mean percentage of assessment on food handler attire (90.71%), personal hygiene practices (97.86%), personal unhygienic behaviour (92.17%) as well as compliance on standard operating procedure (99.80%) which contributed to overall mean percentage of 95.14%. The higher the mean percentage shows a higher hygiene practice among food handlers. The impact of a good hygiene practices could help in reducing issues related to foodborne illness caused by non-compliance with personal hygiene.