Food Safety Focus | Doors & History
Hello All Team Members!
I hope this message finds all of you and your families safe and well,
This week our safety topic is on doors. What do doors have to do with food safety? We all use doors every day, so let’s take a look.
Doors have been around a long time to say the least. Archeologists have found evidence of doors made of thick poplar wood dating back to over 3000 years BC, or to around the time of Stonehenge. The oldest doors still in use are said to be in Rome at the Pantheon, and made of solid bronze. It is said that the doors at the pantheon are so well balanced that they can be opened or closed easily by one person. Doors were made sturdy to keep out the elements, dangers and keep everything inside safe.
What doors do for us hasn’t changed in over 5000 years. Today we use them to keep out pests like rodents and insects, as well as people who would wish to harm the products in our care for their own interests. All exterior doors should be self-closing and lock tight. That means you should not have to pull on the inside push bar to get it to close! When you let go of any exterior door, it should automatically close for you. This is in our food safety program, is a part of our food safety certifications that we are audited on each year and counts as points off your audit for not having them close automatically or lock when shut.
What about man-doors to the freezers inside the warehouse? Good question. Have you ever seen all the ice crystals that form on the pallets above a freezer door that has been stuck open too long? I’ve seen pallets that sat above a door that is constantly open cached with ice crystals from this and I’ve also seen a pallet with ice crystals slide right off the forks of a forklift as they were backing up. Freezer man-doors should be closed when not in use, to keep ice from building up above the door. This will also help keep our temperatures in the freezers where they need to be.
I hope you enjoyed this and as always, thank you for all of you do to provide safe food that is free from harm for our families, each and every Day!
Justin Straka Food Safety Manager
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