To maintain its Grade A accreditation from the British Retail Consortium (BRC), leading fruit and vegetable supplier Vale Fresh, has to excel in many areas and the cleanliness of its site is no exception.
It was down to newly appointed All Clean Ltd to meet the challenge
of overhauling the cleaning regime to help meet the BRC’s stringent criteria.
The brief given to Sara Mallinson, Sales Manager at All Clean was
to manage daily top to bottom cleaning across the 80,000sq ft site in
all areas including shop floor, packing area, warehousing, despatch,
office and communal staff areas.
This is the first contract for All Clean in the food sector although they
were able to draw on useful experience gained in other demanding
environments such as deep cleaning in hospitals. Craig Ellis Area
Supervisor describes the approach:
“The first thing we did was to work with the Vale Fresh team
to identify areas for improvement. Then our onsite team of 7 people had to be drilled in the BRC coloured coded system to avoid cross contamination.In particularl at this site, we had to mindful of keeping cleaning in organic and non-organic food areas distinct. Finally we had to issue maps to everyone so they could coplete their cleaning rounds in a systematic fashion.”
To keep on top of the cleaning, daily audits are conducted to review
quality which needs to be maintained during the 6am- 12 midnight
shifts, 350 days a year. Each month, cleaning is high on the agenda,
as Kevin Browning Site Operations Manager at Vale Fresh says:
“This is a very busy place where a number of different
divisions converge. We have to be ready for inspection at
any time. We took on All Clean as we were having issues
with our previous supplier and they have helped us maintain our Grade A status.”
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