Daily Hygiene Audit
Hi All,
I am working in a small company (<10 full-time employees and few part-time seasonal workers) and every day I complete daily hygiene audit, which sometimes feels like a waste of time and paper, since there are some days that we don't even have production. This document was created according to pre-requisites and I thought this way I could show compliance with all the regulations.
Quick question- should small companies also have daily hygiene audit or there is another way how to assure compliance?
Thank you!
Hi All,
I am working in a small company (<10 full-time employees and few part-time seasonal workers) and every day I complete daily hygiene audit, which sometimes feels like a waste of time and paper, since there are some days that we don't even have production. This document was created according to pre-requisites and I thought this way I could show compliance with all the regulations.
Quick question- should small companies also have daily hygiene audit or there is another way how to assure compliance?
Thank you!
Hi Inverse,
The answer might relate somewhat to the Product / Process, etc. and what happens if zero "Production" ?, eg no maintenance, cleaning operations, Regulatory Requirements ?
IMEX, Hygiene = function (Process + Environment + People + Services +++)
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compliance with all the regulations
So what are "all the regulations" ?
Hi Charles,
So it means that if there's no production, I don't actually need to fill in daily audit form? Because there's no process or people in production.. But I guess I should still audit the environment (pest control, glass&hard plastic, etc?). I just decided to continue filling in the forms just in case but I wasn't entirely sure if I need to..
I meant compliance with GMP and pre-requisites.
Thanks!
Hi Charles,
So it means that if there's no production, I don't actually need to fill in daily audit form? Because there's no process or people in production.. But I guess I should still audit the environment (pest control, glass&hard plastic, etc?). I just decided to continue filling in the forms just in case but I wasn't entirely sure if I need to..
I meant compliance with GMP and pre-requisites.
Thanks!
The (minimum) monitoring / documentation requirements are likely defined by a question like -
who is going to audit the system, ie FSMS Standard = ? BRC ? Only EHO ?
Without knowing the type of product or what auditing bodies you are dealing with, you can handle this a combination of two ways, which should make life a lot easier on you.
Maintaining an up-to-date schedule that lists non-production days will give easy reference as to why some documents on some days may be missing/incomplete. I'm at a medium sized plant right now. We manage this with weekly emails with the schedule. This gets updated and re-distributed as needed. Combine that with comments of "N/A - No production" on the paperwork/ audit documentation in question and/or the paperwork review (I've done it both ways, and really prefer doing it on a comprehensive document for paperwork review).
Just some ideas!
Our main auditing bodies are: SALSA (Safe and Local Supplier Approval) and EHO, so we follow their requirements (which are not as strict as BRC).
Thank you both! I will make some adjustments which would also help to identify days without production.