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[coffeeQA]

What kind of verification is needed for maintenance and facility sanitation activities for SQF edition 9? 

 

Previously our program had been set to sign and date (by someone who did not complete the activity) for every PM and work order. Is this required? 

 

Can someone point me to the part in the SQF code that would require verification of PMs? 

 

Thanks! 

[kingstudruler1]

section 2.5 covers verification.

 

2.5.2.1 The methods, responsibility, and criteria for verifying monitoring of Good Manufacturing Practices, critical control points, and other food safety controls, and the legality of certified products shall be documented and implemented. The methods applied shall ensure that personnel with responsibility for verifying monitoring activities authorize each verified record.

 

Module 11 is good manufacturing practices for processing food products.  Maintenance and sanitation are both in section 11. 

 

11.2.5.9 also covers santiation verification.  

[jfrey123]

I've covered this for most of my sites by adding a section to each work order/PM form for maintenance to sign off that they've completed the work and informed QA or Sanitation that the equipment or area is ready to be cleaned.  This leaves you open to just have the sanitation crew use whatever documents they've got for cleaning the equipment or area afterward.  If you want to attach a copy of the sanitation forms to the work order, cool, or you just lead the auditor from the work orders to the sanitation forms and be able to corroborate the correct sanitation record to that order.

 

Another way I did it was to have the signed work order go to sanitation, and then sanitation signs and dates once they performed the sanitation.  Problem I got into there was that the sanitation supervisor/manager's signature became the only proof they cleaned the area:  they didn't use their paperwork showing proper cleaning, and I caught a minor for it once.

 

 

Relevant SQF code that I think you're wondering about with this question:

 

11.2.2.3 Maintenance staff and contractors shall remove all tools and debris from any maintenance activity once it has been completed, and inform the area supervisor and maintenance supervisor, so appropriate hygiene and sanitation can be conducted and a pre-operational inspection completed prior to the restarting of site operations.

Edited by jfrey123, 14 February 2024 - 09:58 PM.

[Scotty_SQF]

A visual inspection and a document where someone signs off that it passed inspection.  For instance at the end of a maintenance work order could have a block saying 'Hygiene Clearance complete?' and have a sign off on who approved.  Typically someone who knows Food Safety.  For sanitation you can have a pre-op sheet that shows what is being inspected and if it passes.

[TylerJones]

coffeeQA: I have been using this style of form for about 5 years for SQF and haven't had any issues. When SQF / BRC codes are updated I always try to find the simplist way to explain it during our audit, I then write the form / policy in that manner. I try to not make forms work in tandem with other forms (maintenance work order and have a separate sanitation form) as you can show more than the auditor asked for. See if this helps?

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