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SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING PRONOUNCEMENTS (Details) (USD $)
 12 Months Ended
Mar. 28, 2015
Mar. 29, 2014
Mar. 30, 2013
Summary of Significant Accounting Pronouncements [Line Items]      
Term of each fiscal year 1 year 1 year 1 year
Term of each fiscal quarter 91 days 91 days 91 days
Cash and cash equivalents maximum maturity period 3 months    
Goodwill impairment $ 0us-gaap_GoodwillImpairmentLoss $ 0us-gaap_GoodwillImpairmentLoss $ 0us-gaap_GoodwillImpairmentLoss
Intangible asset impairment 0us-gaap_ImpairmentOfIntangibleAssetsFinitelived 0us-gaap_ImpairmentOfIntangibleAssetsFinitelived 0us-gaap_ImpairmentOfIntangibleAssetsFinitelived
Other Liabilities      
VAT liabilities 4,205,000hae_ValueAddedTaxLiability 7,114,000hae_ValueAddedTaxLiability  
Forward contracts 2,657,000us-gaap_DerivativeFairValueOfDerivativeLiability 1,255,000us-gaap_DerivativeFairValueOfDerivativeLiability  
Deferred revenue 22,362,000us-gaap_DeferredRevenue 24,777,000us-gaap_DeferredRevenue  
All other 34,987,000us-gaap_OtherAccruedLiabilitiesCurrent 26,564,000us-gaap_OtherAccruedLiabilitiesCurrent  
Other current liabilities 64,211,000us-gaap_OtherLiabilitiesCurrent 59,710,000us-gaap_OtherLiabilitiesCurrent  
Advertising expense 4,500,000us-gaap_AdvertisingExpense 3,600,000us-gaap_AdvertisingExpense 4,600,000us-gaap_AdvertisingExpense
Foreign currency losses 1,100,000us-gaap_ForeignCurrencyTransactionGainLossBeforeTax 500,000us-gaap_ForeignCurrencyTransactionGainLossBeforeTax 800,000us-gaap_ForeignCurrencyTransactionGainLossBeforeTax
Building      
Summary of Significant Accounting Pronouncements [Line Items]      
Property, plant and equipment, useful life 30 years    
Sales [Member] | Customer Concentration Risk [Member]      
Other Liabilities      
Concentration risk, number of customers 0hae_ConcentrationRiskNumberOfCustomers
/ us-gaap_ConcentrationRiskByBenchmarkAxis
= us-gaap_SalesRevenueGoodsNetMember
/ us-gaap_ConcentrationRiskByTypeAxis
= us-gaap_CustomerConcentrationRiskMember		 0hae_ConcentrationRiskNumberOfCustomers
/ us-gaap_ConcentrationRiskByBenchmarkAxis
= us-gaap_SalesRevenueGoodsNetMember
/ us-gaap_ConcentrationRiskByTypeAxis
= us-gaap_CustomerConcentrationRiskMember		  
Japanese Red Cross Society [Member] | Sales [Member] | Customer Concentration Risk [Member]      
Other Liabilities      
Concentration risk, number of customers     1hae_ConcentrationRiskNumberOfCustomers
/ us-gaap_ConcentrationRiskByBenchmarkAxis
= us-gaap_SalesRevenueGoodsNetMember
/ us-gaap_ConcentrationRiskByTypeAxis
= us-gaap_CustomerConcentrationRiskMember
/ hae_ConcentrationRiskNameAxis
= hae_JapaneseRedCrossSocietyMember
Credit risk, accounts receivable     $ 90,100,000us-gaap_ConcentrationRiskCreditRiskFinancialInstrumentMaximumExposure
/ us-gaap_ConcentrationRiskByBenchmarkAxis
= us-gaap_SalesRevenueGoodsNetMember
/ us-gaap_ConcentrationRiskByTypeAxis
= us-gaap_CustomerConcentrationRiskMember
/ hae_ConcentrationRiskNameAxis
= hae_JapaneseRedCrossSocietyMember
Minimum      
Summary of Significant Accounting Pronouncements [Line Items]      
Software capitalization term 5 years    
Minimum | Building improvements      
Summary of Significant Accounting Pronouncements [Line Items]      
Property, plant and equipment, useful life 5 years    
Minimum | Plant equipment and machinery      
Summary of Significant Accounting Pronouncements [Line Items]      
Property, plant and equipment, useful life 3 years    
Minimum | Office equipment and information technology      
Summary of Significant Accounting Pronouncements [Line Items]      
Property, plant and equipment, useful life 3 years    
Minimum | Haemonetics equipment      
Summary of Significant Accounting Pronouncements [Line Items]      
Property, plant and equipment, useful life 3 years    
Maximum      
Summary of Significant Accounting Pronouncements [Line Items]      
Software capitalization term 10 years    
Maximum | Building improvements      
Summary of Significant Accounting Pronouncements [Line Items]      
Property, plant and equipment, useful life 20 years    
Maximum | Plant equipment and machinery      
Summary of Significant Accounting Pronouncements [Line Items]      
Property, plant and equipment, useful life 15 years    
Maximum | Office equipment and information technology      
Summary of Significant Accounting Pronouncements [Line Items]      
Property, plant and equipment, useful life 10 years    
Maximum | Haemonetics equipment      
Summary of Significant Accounting Pronouncements [Line Items]      
Property, plant and equipment, useful life 7 years