Loading and Unloading Practices SQF

I work for a small co-pack facility and we are working toward SQF certification benchmarked to GSFI.  We do not have a traditional dock door that trucks can back up to so that the top, sides, and underside of the door are sealed, and our parking area is not large enough to allow trucks to line up straight with the door.  Those circumstances preclude us from adding curtains to the sides of the door opening.

Has anyone else had a similar situation and how have they mitigated the risk of insect or rodent ingress that satisfies SQF auditors?

Have you looked into Air Curtains?

We use an air curtain and every SQF auditor has been fine with that. We also have a dock that trucks do not directly back up to. 

Echo the above: an air curtain combined with a rapid open/close door can be defended.  I helped document this at a site where a storage building was across a parking lot from the production building.  They used an outdoor forklift to pickup pallets of goods at storage, drive across, and drop it just inside the door of the production building.  Hitting the open button activated the air curtain first, then quickly opened the door, then the door closed before the curtains turned off.  One auditor was very interested to observe the devices worked in that exact order.

We defended this practice using EMP, including air plates specifically added to those doors to help show the blowing air curtains were not introducing a higher level of contaminates compared to the rest of the site.  We had our PCO write up a specific statement to address how/why traps were laid out near these doors, and made sure there were ILT's specifically on either side of the door (but placed sufficiently far to avoid attracting outside flies if doors had to be opened at night).  They included in their statement there is a ramp up to the door, making it unlikely that a rodent would want to go around and climb the ramp being exposed to predators.

Don't get me wrong, the auditors always gave that setup an extra level of scrutiny.  They'd rather see a dock door sealed to a trailer for all loading/unloading, but you can reason with them that you're doing your best to control a situation that's not ideal.

Like others, air curtain.  Not all facilities are large enough to justify a loading dock as part of the design ... or were built before automobiles were popular.  One of our old locations is this way and none of the inspectors or auditors has complained -- they just keep an eye on the other control features around the entrance.