Quality Assurance
Owns the Approved Arrangement, the HACCP plan and the daily verification program that proves the plant produces safe, correctly described and traceable product. QA officers run pre-operational hygiene inspections, Meat Hygiene Assessment, chiller assessments, sampling, non-conformance management, internal audits and preparation for regulator and customer audits.
What the team is accountable for
- Conduct pre-operational hygiene inspection before every shift
- Monitor and verify critical control points and record results
- Manage non-conformances, corrective actions and product holds
- Coordinate microbiological, residue and chemical lean sampling
- Prepare for and host regulator, customer and third party audits
How we know it is working
Who works here
Harpreet Dhillon
Harpreet owns the Approved Arrangement and the HACCP plan and has hosted twelve years of regulator and customer audits at the plant.
Tom Reilly
Tom runs pre-operational hygiene inspections, chiller checks and Meat Hygiene Assessment on the day shift and has been in QA for three years.
Where the work is recorded
QA Monitoring and Verification Log
Records pre-operational hygiene inspections, critical control point checks, chiller assessments, Meat Hygiene Assessment results and container inspections.
Loadout and Despatch Orders
Tracks customer orders from booking through picking, container inspection, loading and despatch, including export market eligibility and seal numbers.
Livestock Receivals Register
Records every consignment of livestock received at the plant, its documentation, identification reconciliation, penning and lairage status.