Food Safety Focus | Floors

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Food Safety Focus

Hello All! 

I hope this message finds all of you and your families safe and well.

This food safety focus will focus on floors.

The most common areas where floors become damaged is at floor joints, or where two sections of the floor come together.  Floor joint seals can become worn out creating gaps.  These gaps should be filled in and repaired as quickly as possible, to prevent them from getting worse.  Gaps in floor joint seals or large cracks and holes in the warehouse flooring can cause areas where spilled products and debris could fall in while sweeping or during spill cleanup.  It is tough to properly cleanup and area when some loose or spilled product falls into cracks in the flooring, unless you plan on taking a vacuum cleaner in the warehouse with you to take product out of the holes in the floor!  Even then, it’s still not guaranteed you’ll get all of the spilled product out, especially when dealing with some sticky puree or juice products.  

Wear and tear may happen over time; however, forklift operators who drag their forks on the ground while travelling can speed up the chipping away process at floor joints.  You can hear forks that are too low hitting every floor joint, as they drag across the floor while travelling.  If forks are dragging when all the way down, this could be a sign that they need adjusting.  Over time and after carrying many pallets, forklift chains can get a little slack causing the forks to lower too far.  When this happens, make maintenance aware so they can adjust the forklift chains accordingly.  Forklift operators should never let their forks drag the ground as they travel, please.

Product cases must never be stored directly on the floor.  If cases fall off a pallet and onto the floor in the pick slot, they need to be stacked back onto the pallet and not left there, please.  Make sure the outside of the cases are wiped and clean.  I understand it may be picked up by the end of the day because of orders; however that does not mean we should just leave it on the floor.  Leaving something the wrong way builds bad muscle memory and that can lead to a poor food safety culture.  If the product itself is spilled out of the master case and onto the floor, it must be damaged out and not used, please.

Thanks, for all that you do every Day!

Justin Straka

Food Safety Manager

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