What Food Safety Services Do You Wish Existed to Improve Plant Operations?
With all the recent major recalls and plant closures, I want to reach out to the community to see what industry consultants can offer to help with the day to day or bigger picture items to help plants move forward in positive directions.
Being a consultant 3 years now, I have seen a trend that either companies wait until a major event to spend money on a food safety service or they wait until the end of their fiscal year to spend their budget.
If you aren't spending your budgets throughout the year, or just budgeting for the next year - what are you hoping to gain? What does your facility need? What service do you wish existed that you haven't found? Even if it's not fully food safety related like new equipment, - what services are on your wish list to make your like easier?
Some of my ideas are below let me know your thoughts on whether these show any value.
- ROI & Cost-Savings Analysis for hygienic infrastructure and equipment upgrades.
- Full Food Safety & Operational Quality plan - format is combined with CI methods (six sigma's 5Ms). Store all your data in one spot by equipment/ process step to ensure critical food safety, quality, maintenance, and sanitation items that have caused complaints, downtime, and loss of product are not lost in history. End the broken record of problems and have a true preventive plan.
- No Score Audits - This will be the most comprehensive audit you'll likely ever experience. It will take approximately 2 weeks. All findings are informational and you decided how critical it is to your operation and whether you need to perform corrective actions. Not only will we look at all of your programs and records, but we will spend the majority of our time on the production floor watching how you operate. You'll be paying us to be better and receive actual recommendations for improvements.
- Environmental Pathogen Remediation - have a resident pathogen that you just cant get rid? Not sure where to start other than telling maintenance you want a new drain, fix the leak, or repair the floor? We can come in and give you real costs for repairs in comparison to constantly cleaning & swabbing.