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[astro]

Hi

Please help out a fellow techie. I have never had to do this before but I am after some good excuses for some black out days for unannounced Brc audit.

Thanks

[GMO]

Excuses?  

 

Love it...

 

Here are some reasons....

• Pre planned audits. 
• Customer visits.  
• Product launches.
• Planned shutdowns or non production periods (if you have engineering works planned, I'd frame it as a shutdown rather than engineering works if you can).

 

I'd personally steer clear of sharing "key personnel absence" as the site should be able to cope with deputies.

[MDaleDDF]

You have to give them a reason?   I only did it once with 22k, and I don't remember them asking....

[KellyQA]

I don't know about BRC, but I know for SQF, due to the Boar's Head recall, if you state that for blackout dates that whatever days are not production days, they will send a representative to make sure that you are not actually running production, and if you are they will strip your certificate. That was told to me by an SQF consultant.  

[GMO]

I don't know about BRC, but I know for SQF, due to the Boar's Head recall, if you state that for blackout dates that whatever days are not production days, they will send a representative to make sure that you are not actually running production, and if you are they will strip your certificate. That was told to me by an SQF consultant.  

 

Wow... Ok fair point!  Let me rescind my earlier suggestion...

I don't know all the specifics of the Boars Head case but did they try and claim long shut downs when they were producing?