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[NorCalNate]

A company I'm consulting for does not have a backup practitioner and due to head count and current staff workload doesn't seem to be motivated to train a backup.

 

This would obviously be marked a non-conformance during an audit, though I'm not sure if it would be considered a minor or major. I'm leaning towards a potential major, wanted to see if anyone else has been in a similar situation? 

[SQFconsultant]

Minor to maybe major.

 

Make the President the back-up, or so other higher up.

 

It could become a major when an Auditor walks in and the regular SQFP is off and there is NO backup to cover - that will be a big oops.

 

Very difficult to tell an Auditor, sorry but the key person is out today and there is no backup - so please come back another day, that happened to me once - it did not go over too well for the facility that day.

[Tony-C]

Hi NorCalNate,

 

For the SQF Food Safety Code Section 2.1.1 Management Responsibility is Mandatory:

2.1.1.4 Senior site management shall designate a primary and substitute SQF practitioner …..

 

Having no Substitute SQF Practitioner is highly likely to be major non-conformance. As Glenn has indicated, it would be better to designate an employee that wasn’t fully qualified than not have one at all.

 

Kind regards,

 

Tony