Hello everyone,
I would like to get your insight on the notification of the certification body in view of IFS Food - we had a shortage of power yesterday, which lead to internal rejection of some of our half-finished products.
There was no need for recall of any of the products (obviously).
I believe that we, therefore, do not need to notify the certification body, however it would be great to hear from someone who has more experience with this subject (1).
* What would be other cases of emergencies/incidents that you do consider cumpolsory to notify? E.g. fire, flooding or other permanent damage of equipment (yes), recall (yes), withdrawal (yes), data safety breach (?), loss of data due to equipment failure (?), severe equipment failure (e.g. one of the 3 production lines are unfit for use due to certain failure) (?), desease of empoyees (easily transmitable) (?), what else?
Also, (2) I do not believe we need to inform the client in such case, except if the raw materials/packaging materials are delivered by the client, please correct me if I am wrong.
(3) What would you consider a cumpolsory notification to the CB about the changes in the organisation? Our company makes part of a group of companies but only one of them has the production site. Some of our employees are hired by one company, others by another, but all make part of the group (total number employees around 30 - so not a big size company and the responsibilities intertwine for all the companies of the group).
--> Would you consider essential to notify the CB about splitting the Innovation and Product Development department into 2 seperate ones (with Innovation making part of one company due to patents and Product Development of another - the one that has the production site)?
It would be great to have your feedback on the 3 points asap!
Thank you!