FBC Knoxville Employee Handbook 2025

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Failure to observe Company grooming, dress code, personal hygiene rules: a. Appropriate business casual attire is required of all office personnel. b. Failure to follow the dress code requirements for your role: Plant employees must wear appropriate Personal Protective Equipment, slip resistant shoes, and any required uniforms. . Sales employees should dress to portray a professional image in correlation to the occasions (such as servicing customers) and environment of the day’s activities. You may wear: • a comfortable collared short-sleeved shirt or pullover; • dark colored khakis/work shorts or pants;

• black shoes/boots (slip resistant shoes/boots are strongly encouraged but sandals, cloth top, open toe, canvas, unlaced shoes or any type of shoe which leaves any part of the foot exposed are not acceptable); • no earbuds or headphones of any type while servicing a customer; • and t-shirts, hoodies, jeans, sweatpants, jerseys, athletic shorts, being shirtless, etc., are not acceptable.

c. Plant employees may have neatly trimmed beards, so long as the beard is covered by a net of fine mesh and does not prevent the proper use of safety equipment (such as respirators). Mustaches are acceptable only if they are neatly trimmed and do not extend below the upper lip. Sideburns must be neatly trimmed and may not extend more than one inch below the bottom of the ear. d. Hair and clothing must be kept neat and clean. All employees and visitors must wear hair nets while in plant production areas. Bump caps, paper caps, baseball style caps, etc. are not permissible substitute hair coverings. Anyone wearing this type cap or hat for safety or other reasons, must still use a hair net while in the plant area. e. Hands must be washed before reporting to the work station. No fingernail polish may be worn if the employee works in production or near exposed food products. Any employee handling finished, unpackaged product will wear gloves that are intact, clean, and in sanitary condition. f. Excessive perfume, cologne, or aftershave shall not be worn. 21. Failure to observe safety rules. This list is not all inclusive: a. Sandals, cloth top, open toe, canvas, unlaced shoes or any type of shoe which leaves any part of any part of the foot exposed are not acceptable for employees working or walking in the plant area.

Page 8 of 15 Effective Date: January 2025