Run the boning room pre-operational hygiene inspection

You are a Quality Assurance Officer on the day shift.

Simulated workplaceIntermediate missionCAQA Southern Cross Meat Processing

What is going on

For the first time you will run the boning room pre-operational hygiene inspection on your own, starting at 4 am on Thursday. The cleaning contractor signs off at 3:45 am. On Monday the underside of conveyor 3 and whizard station 6 failed and had to be re-cleaned, and the Quality Assurance Manager wants those areas checked closely and a swab taken. Every observation must be in the QA monitoring log before 5:15 am because the on-plant veterinary officer reviews the records at 7 am as part of daily verification. If any item fails on re-inspection you must call the Quality Assurance Manager before releasing the room. Boning starts at 5:30 am and a late start costs the plant a great deal.

Harpreet Dhillon, Quality Assurance Manager
Subject: Pre-op inspection of the boning room, Thursday 4 am

Tom is on the small stock floor on Thursday so you will run the boning room pre-operational inspection alone for the first time. Follow the Pre-operational Hygiene Inspection Procedure step by step and log every observation in the QA monitoring log before 5:15 am. The conveyor 3 underside failed on Monday, so pay attention there and take a swab. If anything fails on re-inspection, call me before releasing the room. The veterinary officer will review your records at 7 am.

Your brief

Conduct the pre-operational inspection following the procedure, record every observation, manage any failures through re-cleaning and re-inspection, take verification swabs and release the room or escalate correctly.

Work through it

You do not need to do it all. Doing a few of these will show you what the work is like. Your ticks and notes stay on this device.

Read the Pre-operational Hygiene Inspection Procedure and prepare your equipment list and the inspection sequence for the boning room.
Using the inspection findings supplied by your assessor, record each item as Pass, Marginal or Fail as a Pre-op hygiene check in the QA Monitoring and Verification Log.
For each Fail, describe the tag, the re-clean request to the cleaning supervisor and the re-inspection result, and update the log entry.
Select the adenosine triphosphate swab sites from the rotating plan plus the re-cleaned surfaces and record the results supplied, identifying any result above the action limit.
Raise a Non-Conformance and Corrective Action Report for the conveyor 3 underside, which has now failed twice in one week, with a root cause and preventive action.
Write the release decision for the room, or the escalation message to the Quality Assurance Manager if release is not possible, with times.
Explain how the pre-operational inspection supports the good manufacturing practice requirements of the Approved Arrangement and what the veterinary officer will look for in your records.

My notes: what did I enjoy, and what surprised me?

What someone in this role would produce

Equipment list and inspection sequence
Completed QA monitoring log entries
Swab plan and results record
Non-Conformance Report for conveyor 3
Release or escalation decision

Printing this is a record of what you explored. It is not a certificate or a qualification.