Hygiene Audit
Hygiene audits are systematic inspections and assessments of a company’s environmental hygiene, facilities, and operational procedures throughout its production, processing, storage, and service processes. The core objective of these audits is to ensure that a company’s production and operations comply with relevant laws and regulations, industry standards, and customer requirements, thereby reducing food safety, product contamination, and public health risks. These audits are applicable not only to food-related businesses but also to retail, catering, and public service industries.
Compliance assurance: Ensuring that the company meets national laws and regulations as well as customer audit requirements.
Reduce food safety risks: Reduce the risk of microbial contamination, cross-contamination, and foreign objects.
Brand image enhancement: Showcase the company’s hygiene and safety management level through authoritative audits.
Supply chain access: Meet the hygiene audit requirements of major retailers, international brands, and export markets.
Continuous improvement-driven: Weaknesses are identified through audits, which drive the optimization and upgrading of health management.
Core Content
1. Framework Standards
Audit requirements are based on national food safety laws, public health regulations, and industry standards (such as HACCP, ISO 22000, etc.).
It adopts a risk prevention and continuous improvement approach, covering key aspects such as facilities, personnel, equipment, and environment.
It emphasizes ensuring the effectiveness of the health management system through a combination of on-site inspections, document review, and interviews.
2. Wide range of applications
Food industry: food processing plants, dairy plants, beverage plants, slaughtering and meat processing enterprises.
Food and beverage and retail: restaurant chains, supermarkets, and fresh food distribution centers.
Warehousing and Logistics: Cold chain warehousing, raw material warehousing, and transportation and distribution.
Public places and service industries: school canteens, hospital canteens, elderly care institutions, etc.
3. Core Elements
Production environment hygiene: air, water source, ground, drainage system, pest control, etc.
Personnel hygiene management: Employee health management, personal protective equipment, and compliance with operating procedures.
Facilities and equipment cleaning: cleaning, disinfection and maintenance to avoid cross-contamination.
Materials and storage conditions: storage and expiration date management of raw materials, semi-finished products, and finished products.
Documents and records: Compliance of cleaning plans, disinfection records, and employee training records.
Emergency response mechanism: Measures to deal with sudden food safety or public health incidents.
Review Process
1. Application and Preparation:
The company applies and prepares relevant documents and basic information.
2. Preliminary diagnosis:
The auditing agency conducts a gap analysis to determine the key areas for auditing.
3. On-site audit:
The expert team inspected the environment, facilities, and operating procedures, and verified the documentation.
4. Results Reporting and Improvements:
Issue an audit report, pointing out problems and providing suggestions for improvement.
5. Rectification and Review:
After the company completes the rectification, the auditing agency will conduct a review.
6. Conformity Assessment:
Upon successful review, a qualification report or relevant certificate will be issued.
7. Continuous monitoring:
Regular follow-up audits are conducted to ensure continued compliance with hygiene management regulations.
SUSTECH's Services
As an innovative technology service company, we can provide clients with the following differentiated services during the establishment, implementation, and continuous improvement of health audits, combining our technological advantages to solve their problems.
1. Interpretation of Regulations and Standards:
Help businesses understand laws and regulations related to food safety and hygiene.
2. Gap Analysis and Diagnosis:
Identify the weaknesses in a company’s hygiene management.
3. Training and Capacity Building:
Provide training courses for employees on hygiene standards, cleaning and disinfection, etc.
4. On-site audit and improvement guidance:
Simulated audits help clients identify potential risks and optimize management.
5. Comprehensive Solution:
Improve the efficiency of health management by combining digital tools (such as IoT monitoring and online recording platforms).
6. Brand value-added services:
Assist companies in integrating audit findings into ESG reports and marketing communications.
SUSTECH
SUSTECH is an innovative technology service company with artificial intelligence, big data, and blockchain at its core. We specialize in ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) testing, certification, and compliance management, helping companies achieve their sustainable development goals. Through digital and intelligent means, we are redefining the testing and certification industry, making ESG compliance more transparent, efficient, and credible.
Core Advantage: Technology-enabled ESG Compliance
Intelligent ESG Data Acquisition and Analysis
- IoT Environmental Monitoring: Real-time collection of data on enterprise carbon emissions, wastewater discharge, energy consumption, etc., and automatic generation of ESG reports.
- AI carbon footprint calculation: Based on supply chain data, it accurately calculates the carbon footprint of a product throughout its entire lifecycle, in accordance with international standards such as ISO 14064 and GHG Protocol.
ESG Certification and Rating Optimization
- Automated compliance checks: AI compares data against global ESG standards (such as GRI, SASB, TCFD) to identify ESG risks for enterprises and provide improvement suggestions.
- ESG Rating Enhancement Solution: Combining industry best practices, we develop actionable ESG optimization strategies to help companies improve their ESG ratings from MSCI, S&P, and other ranking bodies.
Blockchain-based Evidence Storage and Transparent Traceability
- Tamper-proof ESG reports: All test data is stored on the blockchain to ensure traceability and auditability, enhancing the trust of investors and regulators.
- Supply chain ESG penetration management: Tracking supplier ESG performance to ensure compliance with the requirements of major international manufacturers.
