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Here is what the new FDA 2001 Food code states for this requirement:
Hair Restraints
2-402.11 Effectiveness.
(A) Except as provided in ΒΆ (B) of this section, food employees shall
wear hair restraints such as hats, hair coverings or nets, beard
restraints, and clothing that covers body hair, that are designed and
worn to effectively keep their hair from contacting exposed food; clean
equipment, utensils, and linens; and unwrapped single-service and
single-use articles.
(B) This section does not apply to food employees such as counter staff
who only serve beverages and wrapped or packaged foods, hostesses, and
wait staff if they present a minimal risk of contaminating exposed food;
clean equipment, utensils, and linens; and unwrapped single-service and
single-use articles.
Further, the Annex cites the Public Health Reason for this requirement
as:
Hair Restraints
2-402.11 Effectiveness.
Consumers are particularly sensitive to food contaminated by hair. Hair
can be both a direct and indirect vehicle of contamination. Food
employees may contaminate their hands when they touch their hair. A hair
restraint keeps dislodged hair from ending up in the food and may deter
employees from touching their hair.
Nowhere in the chapter requirement nor the PHR of Annex 3 is there any discussion of the need for a bald headed person to be wearing hair coverings because staph in their perspiration is falling onto food! So it boils down to hair nets only being required if there's a risk of hair falling into people's food. Since completely bald people don't have hair, they don't need a hair net.
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