GoHACCP Approach to Food Safety

Our Approach to Food Safety

We believe that food safety compliance should be simple, not complicated and the best way to eliminate complexity as well as ensure all protocols are followed is to use smart technology.

With this in mind, GoHACCP has developed smart technology solutions that create systems that are easy to implement and follow, taking food safety to the next level. Our proprietary technology supports all aspects of your food safety compliance requirements: from creating your food safety management system to training your employees to implement your food safety program along with comprehensive system audits, maintaining and ensuring full compliance to the highest and most rigorous standards.

The first step in food safety compliance is creating a food safety plan, better known as a HACCP (Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points) plan. A HACCP plan is an internationally recognized, science-based food safety management system that emphasizes a proactive approach to food safety and health. A HACCP plan evaluates any and all biological, chemical, and physical hazards that may potentially threaten the safety of the food being produced. To ensure that any hazards are controlled, a HACCP plan establishes critical control points that must be monitored.

The HACCP plan is supported by protocols or Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) that describe exactly how to conduct your process steps in order to ensure proper food safety. HACCP plans should be created by a multidisciplinary team that is familiar with knows and understands the production facility (or restaurant kitchen) operations, following all relevant scientific and legal requirements as well as the CODEX '7 principles of HACCP'.

Food Safety Plan Writing Services

HACCP is a complex method for method managing food safety involving multiple steps and requires both scientific and culinary knowledge. GoHACCP eliminates the complexity with our proprietary AutoHACCP® tool, available exclusively to our scientists. The AutoHACCP® tool enables you to create a HACCP plan faster and more efficiently. 

HACCP Training

Creating your HACCP plan is a big first step and the next step is just as important – sharing your new food safety plan with your staff. Training is crucial to guarantee that all members of your team understand their respective roles and their subsequent impact on the overall food safety of your entire operation. All employees should know what HACCP is and how to conduct their activities to comply with the scope of the food safety management system.

Instead of halting operations for team training and evaluation meetings, we offer automated solutions using gamified training. Touch Recipe® is our proprietary platform that includes dozens of videos and quizzes, designed specifically for each role in your operations. Each of your employees can easily access the system at any time via multiple devices to watch a 2-3 minute video and then take a quiz when completed. This allows all required training to be completed in a timely fashion and on your staff’s own schedule. In addition, all scores and related metrics are recorded and displayed in charts for manager review and training status verification.

Food Safety Compliance Software

Once your employees are familiar with how to conduct their respective activities, the next step is to monitor and record the results. Record-keeping is critical to demonstrate your ongoing compliance to any regulatory authority, verifying that you are maintaining strict accordance with your HACCP plan. During an audit, the inspector will review all food safety records and check that all required information has been accurately recorded in a timely fashion. For a HACCP Coordinator, maintaining all of the records in place and up to date can be challenging. Our solution will help solve this problem by helping to organize your entire operations to meet the standards and protocols of your HACCP plan while keeping all required records in one place, ensuring that your company is ready for an audit at any given time. 

All forms are easily accessible through the app, organized in 'tasks' which enable your employees to review and complete their tasks accordingly, for any given day. Supervisors are able to remotely monitor the activities, verify the records and then send them to the cloud to be accessible for an audit at any time. The compliance dashboard allows for your HACCP Coordinator to review the current status of your HACCP plan and apply corrective actions when necessary, ensuring that your company is always audit-ready!

Monitoring

One of the most critical aspects of food safety is temperature control. GoHACCP has a patented sensor system for continuous temperature monitoring and verification of your refrigeration systems. The temperature monitoring system will send an email alert when the temperature of any unit is out of range, allowing the operator to take quick, corrective actions to protect your inventory and help maintain food safety at your facility.

 

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With our smart-technology solutions, GoHACCP can offer you peace of mind regarding safety audits and, more importantly, the safety of the food products coming from your facility.

Jennifer Medina, Ph.D. in Biotechnology.

"I am in charge of implementing food safety systems such as HACCP and PC plans in both food production facilities and restaurants. In addition, I have been working with several companies in the creation, implementation, training, and audit of their Food Safety Plans to be able to pass USDA/FSIS, FDA, CFIA, and SQF audits."