An Overview of Factory Sanitation Audit

In a time deeply riddled with pandemics and epidemics, there is a heightened focus please globally on disease prevention and containment. Brands, importers and retailers seek assurance that all their vendors and organisations they are associated with all over the world are providing hygienic and safe workspaces to their employees. A factory sanitation audit can adequately help ensure that organisations are following the best hygiene measures and sanitation practices in order to prevent the spread of infections are contagious diseases.

The factory sanitation audits conducted by Corpbizassist in making sure that organisations follow the best hygiene measures and practice citation activities that comply with existing legal and regulatory requirements to prevent the spread of contagious infections or diseases.

A factory sanitation audit is an independent and systematic evaluation which is conducted mainly to ensure that sanitation and cleaning activities are efficiently being carried out as required and as planned. Such an audit helps assess whether sanitation activities being undertaken in an organisation are in compliance with the existing legal and regulatory requirements. Hygienic operations are required to provide assurance that the quality management system is sufficiently working and is capable of delivering safe, sanitary and wholesome products and a similar working environment.

Reasons to Perform a Factory Sanitation Audit

There are many benefits to performing a factory sanitation audit, and some of them are laid below:

• Factory sanitation audit ensures that organisations comply with existing regulatory and legal requirements with respect to sanitation and practice best hygiene procedures.
• It helps verify that organisations are creating and maintaining safe and hygienic working conditions for their employees.
• Sanitation audits also help minimise the spread of COVID-19 or any other contagious infection and disease.
• Sanitation audits help avoid interruptions which may affect the supply chain caused due to pandemics or epidemics.

Benefits of Conducting a Factory Sanitation Audit

There are many advantages to conducting a factory sanitation audit for an organisation. A factory sanitation audit may help in the following:

• Sharing ideas from one organisation to another
• Sharing ideas between stakeholders in similar industries
• Providing a level of comfort and knowledge about the operations of one's organisation
• Staying way ahead of the audit curve

Areas of Focus in Factory Sanitation Audits

While conducting a factory sanitation audit, it is prudent to pay attention to areas that are commonly found to be incomplete or lacking. The most common issues are as follows:

• Complete documentation of various non-routine activities typically requires to be documented in a master sanitation schedule. The work may have been completed, but if it was not done in the daily form, it might not have been documented.
• Sanitising and cleaning of entire factory environment like ceilings, walls, floors, surrounding areas and not just equipment. The focus should be should be on the whole plant and not just on the main contact areas to ensure that procedures in place are followed in cleaning the environment of the factory as a whole.

Corpbiz Assistance in Factory Sanitation Audit

The factory sanitary audits carried out byCorpbiz auditors are compliant with various of internationally recognised standards which include, inter alia, the ISO 9000 standards pertaining to the quality management system. Many of our auditors are experienced, and capable professionals with a proven track record in their respective subject matters, and they undergo regular training and assessment. When an ethical audit is conducted by the Corpbiz auditors, they deploy extensive procedures and comprehensive reviews to gauge whether an organisation is competent and capable of meeting the specific requirements of the company. A factory sanitation audit conducted byCorpbizshall cover the following aspects:

• Overall factory hygiene and cleanliness
• Epidemic prevention and containment control measures
• Hygiene procedures for management and staff members
• Safety measures in communal spaces and working areas
• Emergency measures in place

Corpbiz shall conduct a health and safety survey as a complementary service to the factory sanitation audit. We have developed a framework which involves an assessment methodology which wax by gathering feedback from the employees of an organisation on how safety, hygiene, and health measures are being implemented on other production sites. This further helps in getting a holistic insight into the organisation by combining survey feedback and findings of the on-site audit, which helps anticipate any potential operational and labour risks. It is also a cost effective and quick tool which shall be implemented on-site, is deployed remotely and cannot be accessed physically.

There are primarily two assessments that are available:

1. Worker Impact Assessment- the shall include the following:

• understanding the effect of COVID-19 on the safety, health, overtime, wages and mental health of the employees
• providing insights with respect to practical measures respond to the needs of the employees
• to measure the effect of COVID-19 on worker satisfaction, absenteeism and turnover
• assessing the impact on productivity and labour shortages

2. Management assessment- This shall include the following:

• Assessing the effect of any crisis on operations like productivity, orders, and labour, among other things.
• comparing such results with peers
• Getting insights to engage buyers better
• to predict and prepare measures to return to total operational capacity