Any food business should be committed to maintaining high food and safety standards. If you own or manage a food and beverage processing facility, you’ll know that food and safety audits are compulsory and standard procedures for being in business.
Ensuring your facility is up to standard with food audit cleans will help you stay in business while maintaining a hygienic work environment.
Here are additional reasons why food audit cleans are important and how they benefit your facility.
Why cleaning is important in food processing
The purpose of any audit is to maintain a clean and hygienic work environment for staff, visitors – and, of course, to ensure your food products are ready for public consumption.
A clean environment is essential in the defence against infection and reducing the spread of germs and viruses, as well as creating a productive workspace. Â
Fully understanding the cleaning results and adapting schedules improves long-term efficiencies and ultimately offers better client value.
What does a food cleaning audit do, and how we help
Before a food and safety audit, you want to make sure you are prepared and confident that your workplace hygiene, cleanliness, and maintenance are at the standard they need to be.
That’s where we can help you prepare for a food safety audit.
Our specialists will create tailored regular checks and programs to help you meet your requirements.
We provide monthly reporting on actions completed, potential issues, and audit failures. Each visit to your site is documented with photographic evidence and written reports.
Our audit cleaning services ensure that our client’s requirements are met with the highest cleaning standards that are custom-made to your needs and budget.
We look after the small things so you can concentrate on the big things
Our professional food audit cleans focus on key areas of your operations, such as your food safety management system, food storage, food preparation, sanitation, and employee hygiene.
Here are some examples of what we cover:
- Check openings and seal to eliminate pest access
- Monitor and clean dust layers at height above production, packing, and warehousing areas
- Checks for flaky, peeling, or hazardous paint anywhere in your production area
- Ceiling cavities cleaned
- Internal and external vents and ducting cleaned
- Floors maintained and sealed
- Clean and sanitise buildings
- Removal and pest prevention in production, packing, warehousing, and distribution areas
- Removal, monitoring, and prevention of moss, mould, and gunge build-up
- Check and clean manufacturing equipment
- And much more!
Food audit cleans – how your business benefits from them
Health and safety standards
Conducting a food audit clean is the safe way to ensure that your business is compliant
with New Zealand’s health and safety standards (a required component).
Protecting your employees and clients should be the number one priority. After all, they are what makes a business successful. A food cleaning audit will ensure you’re doing your part to keep them safe.
Regular deep cleaning of food manufacturing facilities is also critical to reduce the risk of:
- Product contamination
- Pest infestations
- Unpleasant odours
- Increases machinery life
Health risk prevention
The spreading of illness and outbreaks are preventable with effective cleaning audits.
Cleaning audits allow your management team to monitor and understand what’s been cleaned
and what hasn’t. The source of potential problems can be identified early, which in turn will
prevent more serious issues before they arise.
Keep costs down
Cleaning budgets can be in the range of tens of thousands of dollars per year. Auditing gives great insight into how a cleaning budget is being spent and professional guidance on how your business can maintain its effective cleaning standards. It also allows the opportunity for continuous improvement of your staff.
Regular commercial and industrial cleaning of a business or property mean you save money in the long term. If things get out of hand, there’s a risk your entire operation may have to close while everything is cleaned to an acceptable standard.
Reputation and professionalism
Not only will your food processing facility be hygienically clean, but your business reputation will be too. By making sure your workspace is up to standard, you are demonstrating to your employees and clients that you are a professional and trustworthy service that takes health and safety seriously.
All it takes is one complaint or health scare to damage a business’s reputation.
Get food audit cleans you can trust
Your food or beverage processing facility is the biggest asset to your business. Therefore, we make it our business to ensure it’s well-cleaned and kept up to high standards.
When you work with us, you’ll be working with trained, knowledgeable, and well-equipped staff. We offer our team ongoing specialist training, so they are up to date with the latest requirements and legislations in the food safety industry.
We are highly experienced in removing dust build-up, grime, protein, fat, and grease residues.
We provide comprehensive deep cleans for food manufacturing areas and machinery to ensure facilities meet the many audit standards. Our solutions ensure all waste food deposits are removed, and downtime to your production schedule is reduced to a minimum.
We are proudly an Impac PREQUAL-qualified company with extensive knowledge and experience in a wide range of commercial and industrial services.
With our expert divisions available 24/7, we can work outside your operational hours to avoid any disruption in your workplace.
Give us a call today and let us handle the problem-solving, stress, and preparation of preparing for a Food Safety Audit – and ensure your business is compliant from the very start with food audit cleans you can trust.
