AIB International

Operational Methods and Personnel Practices

Outlines the proper handling, receiving, storage, and monitoring practices for raw materials and food products to ensure safe final products.

  • Rejected shipment records
  • Temperature check records
  • Rejected shipment records
  • Cleaning, inspection, and pest monitoring
  • Packaging with special handling requirements procedure
  • Corrective actions report
  • Release for returned products records
  • Raw material/finished product inspection
  • Pallet inspection
  • Rework records
  • Seal verification
  • Tanker wash tags
  • Sampling procedures
  • Processing aids approval
  • Raw material transfer procedure
  • Bulk material sifting records
  • Foreign material control devices procedure
  • Temperature monitoring
  • Sanitizer concentration verification
  • Captive shoe program
  • Air/water filtration systems monitoring
  • Distribution records
  • Transportation breakdown procedures
  • Shipping vehicle inspection
  • Security seal or padlock records
  • Hand sanitizer concentration monitoring
  • High-risk clothing management
  • Personnel practices program
  • Personnel health cards
  • Blood/bodily fluid policy or procedures
  • Glass container breakage procedure
  • Reprocessing or rejection of sealed or filled containers

Maintenance for Food Safety

Procedures to maintain buildings, equipment, and grounds in a way that provides a safe and sanitary food processing environment.

  • Glass, brittle plastics, and ceramics program
  • Preventive maintenance schedule
  • Food-grade lubricants records
  • Temporary repair procedures
  • Work orders and repair requests
  • Temperature monitoring activities
  • Measuring device calibration
  • Compressed air filter monitoring
  • Purity/filter records
  • Ammonia inspection records

Cleaning Practices

Standards focus on the cleaning and sanitization of equipment and facilities.

  • Approved food contact cleaning compounds and sanitizers
  • Chemical concentrations testing
  • Equipment and tools color coding
  • Forklifts/pallet jacks cleaning
  • Daily cleaning task assignment
  • Daily cleaning task schedule
  • Product zone cleaning schedule
  • Product zone task schedule
  • Clean-in-place (CIP) systems
  • Time/temperature/flow rates records

Integrated Pest Management

Highlights the management of pest activity, with strategies to identify, prevent, and eliminate conditions conducive to pests.

  • IPM program
  • In-house and outside contractors training records
  • Facility annual assessment
  • Corrective action reports
  • Pest controller credentials and competencies
  • Chemical Safety Data Sheets (SDS)
  • Pesticide labels
  • Pesticide application records
  • Pesticides inventory and control
  • Trend analysis
  • Pest-sighting logs
  • Monitoring devices placement
  • Site map of pest-monitoring devices
  • Service records
  • Insect light traps monitoring
  • Pheromone monitoring device record

Adequacy of Prerequisite and Food Safety Programs

Evaluates the coordination of management, documentation, training, and monitoring systems across the facility to ensure safe products.

  • Food safety policy
  • Organizational chart
  • Job descriptions
  • Alternates/deputies assignments
  • Training records
  • Competency requirements
  • Self-inspection reports
  • Corrective action reports
  • Customer complaint program
  • Chemical control program
  • Microbial control program
  • Hold/release records
  • Allergen control program
  • Glass, brittle plastics, and ceramics program
  • Cleaning program
  • Master cleaning schedule
  • Housekeeping schedule
  • Preventive maintenance program
  • Work order system
  • Receiving program
  • Regulatory affairs and inspections program
  • FDA registration under the Bioterrorism Act
  • Vulnerability assessment
  • Food defense program
  • Traceability program
  • Finished product coding record
  • Recall/withdrawal program
  • Nonconforming product program
  • Disposition records
  • Approved supplier program
  • Supplier performance monitoring
  • Foreign supplier verification
  • Import requirements record
  • Specification program
  • Letters of Guarantee or Certifications
  • Processing record program
  • Equipment failure and process deviation procedure
  • HACCP program
  • CCP (Critical Control Points) monitoring
  • Process flow diagram
  • Hazard analysis
  • HACCP master plan
  • Release procedures
  • Structural repairs or modifications design standards
  • Water quality program
  • Water sample testing (potability)
  • Approved chemicals
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