Best Answer QAGB, 22 March 2016 - 01:25 PM
(This may not be the best forum to ask this in. If not, my apologies!)
Good day, All!
I mentioned in another post that I have recently changed companies (to be closer to home and family! ). The company I came to was without a QA manager (no HACCP coordinator position) for about a year. None of the internal audits or verification activities (aside from daily monitoring and paperwork verification) for the last 7 months have been completed. This includes GMP/facility, Glass and Brittle Plastic, Sanitation, Master Cleaning Verification, and some specific equipment audits that are performed quarterly.
As I'm doing these audits/verifications before the end of the month and getting them completed, I was also drafting a reassessment document to prepare with the Food Safety team. I'm gathering available information from Maintenance, swabs results, FM findings, and other audits performed by other departments to show, to the best of our ability, that all other spokes in the wheel were still in place since July.
Would anyone address it this way, or just do the audits, document that due to lack of management available the audits were not performed (I don't like that idea at all) and move one?
Hi Wowie,
That's a very unfortunate situation. I would address it the way you are doing it, because you're doing everything you can to assess the situation.
If you just document the lack of management, you would most definitely see non-conformances in the provisions of proper resources/staffing area (management commitment), and the internal auditing areas you mentioned as well.
If you do your reassessment, the auditor will obviously know there was a lack of proper resources. However, the auditor is more likely to be understanding if you are assessing and addressing internal non-conformances prior to the audit.
QAGB