I would like to thank everyone in this forum for all the help you provide. We have two meat processing plants. The first plant is a newer plant and has been BRC cert. grade 'A' for two years. Our second plant is an older plant. We worked very hard all of 2014 to install vestibules, some floor work, new cooler, new spiral freezer and we added a high risk and low risk break/lunch room for our 200 team members. The building needed some work and our senior management team had no problem giving me the money I needed to get everything up to BRC standard. We had our first BRC audit last week, four 10 hour days, and we passed with a 'A' grade. We received 6 non-conformities and all 6 of them are very easy to fix, mostly training and better leadership (training must be constant). The help that all you give is, from my point of view, priceless. When someone asked me a question about BRC, food safety or HACCP I give them an answer and then tell them they need to check out IFSQ Network. All the answers are there and if not you just ask and you will get an answer. I am so happy that we picked BRC. Our company was already a good company with high food safety standards. With BRC we have become a great company and now every department has high food safety standards and is very proud of it.
Next year I will combine both plants for one huge BRC audit. I'm looking forward to that.