Bridging the Gap: Ensuring SOP Compliance in Refrigerated Case Cleaning

Clean refrigerated cases protect the public from dangerous pathogens like Listeria, salmonella, and E. coli. That’s why you craft your equipment standard operating procedures (SOP) so thoroughly. When followed, these steps keep refrigerated cases for produce, dairy, and meat clean and in good working order while protecting shoppers from dangerous pathogens.

But is your SOP being followed?

You’ve put hours into fine-tuning every detail of your food safety program, but in reality, cleaning cases is a cumbersome, time-consuming process. Following your SOP requires many steps, different chemicals and tools, and multiple trips to the back storeroom. Managers can have trouble finding time to schedule the work. Hourly employees, particularly those not well-trained in the hazards of cross-contamination, may end up taking shortcuts. The combination creates dangerous conditions in the refrigerated cases throughout your stores.

This can be particularly damaging at a time when the public’s confidence in the safety of food has hit record lows.

At Kaivac, we see this as an opportunity to reinvigorate food safety programs, turning your refrigerated case cleaning SOP into boots-on-the-ground reality. This team-based approach to cleaning is faster, so managers can fit it into the schedule, and easier, so hourly employees will engage and do their best work.

The Refrigerated Case Cleaner from Kaivac brings your SOP to life. This all-in-one equipment standardizes your process so refrigerated cases are completely cleaned to your specifications, and on your schedule, every single time.

The Refrigerated Case Cleaner from Kaivac removes the disconnect between your procedures and what’s actually happening in the field. It puts the right tool, supported by KaiNect™ app-based video training, in the employee’s hand so they can get this important job done quickly and safely.

Cleaning with the Refrigerated Case Cleaner takes about half the time of conventional methods, making it easier for managers to schedule. It also extends the life of valuable equipment while cutting down on the need for expensive service calls.

But, most importantly, the Refrigerated Case Cleaner keeps equipment and shoppers safe from dangerous, food-borne illness.

Learn more about grocery cleaning tools from Kaivac here.