If it is an employee, we have the policies in place that they can be asked to shave/trim their beard if it cannot be contained in a beard guard or a PAPR device as it poses a safety hazard/infection control issue. For patients, we try to contain it in the beard guard as best as we can...we frequently have this problem as we have a high German Baptist/Amish/Mennonite population with very long beards.
If it is an employee, we have the policies in place that they can be asked to shave/trim their beard if it cannot be contained in a beard guard or a PAPR device as it poses a safety hazard/infection control issue. For patients, we try to contain it in the beard guard as best as we can...we frequently have this problem as we have a high German Baptist/Amish/Mennonite population with very long beards.