Hygiene Inspection and Fabrication Inspection according to BRC?

Hi all,

Can any one explain what exactly meant by ' Hygiene Inspection' and ' Fabrication Inspection'. According to BRC, the facility should do both of these inspections in addition to the usual food safety audits. I request some one to provide me with sample documents (Fabrication Inspection andHygiene Inspection)




Thanks and kind regards,

QAMalpha.

BRC 3.4.4 In addition to the internal audit program there shall be a program of documented
inspections to ensure that the factory environment and processing equipment is maintained
in a suitable condition for food production. These inspections shall include:

●● hygiene inspections to assess cleaning and housekeeping performance
●● fabrication inspections to identify risks to the product from the building or equipment.

These additional audits would be common things in the factory; like your GMP audits, Sanitation Audits and Inspections (Audits) performed after maintenance work.

Here's a example of a inspection & sanitation after maintenance work form.

Sanitation after Maintenance Example Inspection.xls   15KB   976 downloads

Hope this helps to give you some ideas to work off from to meet this standard.







P.S. Don’t forget to vote for my photo “jpredmore” in the IFSQN t-shirt contest.

Hi QAM,

A hygiene audit consists of a sheet naming areas of your factory, comments regarding how clean the area is, who is responsible for the mess and a close out by the Quality Manager. An example would be; "Area - Dispatch. Comments - Broken pallet lying on floor. Responsibility - Warehouse staff. Comments - Pallet removed. Staff re-trained in wood physical hazards". Do this for each area of your factory and carry out once a month. A structural integrity audit concerns such items as walls, doors and floors. As above, you can do a stand alone audit for each area. For example - "Area - Dispatch. Comments - Damage to wall from pallet strike. Responsibility - Maintenance. Comments - Wall patched up and repaired". Again you can do this for each area of your plant. For small facilities, this can become repetitive, so I have incorporated this into our weekly maintenance check sheet where I test our thermometers, scales, temperature of hot water etc etc. There is just a simple checkbox stating that all walls are intact, doors are functioning and floors are in good order.

I would see jpred's document as the next step after your audit, i.e. I have found a problem, and I am notifying maintenance of a structural issue, a sort of post maintenance sign-off, though I do admire his shameless self-promotion and fear his monumental strength.

Hi QAM,

A hygiene audit consists of a sheet naming areas of your factory, comments regarding how clean the area is, who is responsible for the mess and a close out by the Quality Manager. An example would be; "Area - Dispatch. Comments - Broken pallet lying on floor. Responsibility - Warehouse staff. Comments - Pallet removed. Staff re-trained in wood physical hazards". Do this for each area of your factory and carry out once a month. A structural integrity audit concerns such items as walls, doors and floors. As above, you can do a stand alone audit for each area. For example - "Area - Dispatch. Comments - Damage to wall from pallet strike. Responsibility - Maintenance. Comments - Wall patched up and repaired". Again you can do this for each area of your plant. For small facilities, this can become repetitive, so I have incorporated this into our weekly maintenance check sheet where I test our thermometers, scales, temperature of hot water etc etc. There is just a simple checkbox stating that all walls are intact, doors are functioning and floors are in good order.

I would see jpred's document as the next step after your audit, i.e. I have found a problem, and I am notifying maintenance of a structural issue, a sort of post maintenance sign-off, though I do admire his shameless self-promotion and fear his monumental strength.

If that is the case, we have many hygiene/fabrication related checklists that too in daily frequency. Then is it necessary to have a monthly inspection with the same check aspects?????????

As someone in one of the topics mentioned, really it seems BRC is a paper based system rather than concentrating on the reality or the actual practices!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Not at all. You seem to be meeting the intent of the clause. If you can show your auditor your current hygiene/fabrication checklists, and that any NC's resulting from them are being fixed, then you have met the intent of the requirements.

Marshall