HACCP - Hazard analysis and critical control points

HACCP

Hazard analysis and critical control points, HACCP in short, is a systematic and preventive approach, used all over the food industry, to analyze all the safety hazards and map out critical control points to prevent the product from becoming unsafe. HACCP standards guide setting the critical values and how the monitoring should be conducted as well as recommend to have a corrective actions checklist.

Challenges

• Report blanks are not centralized between different stores.
• Critical control points are often not monitored, or reports submitted at the correct time.
• Paper reports get lost or misplaced and are hard to analyze.
• Updating centralized record sheet blanks is difficult.
• Stored food quality may suffer due to lack of easy to use monitoring solutions.
• Employee training takes a lot of time.

Collect HACCP reports using mobile phones

Miratag enables to collect any type of HACCP reports using mobile phones. Miratag also simplifies and automates the report filling by using NFC tags and Bluetooth sensors including automated temperature and humidity sensors. For example Miratag can be used to collect:

• refrigerator and freezer temperatures
• food quality sheets
• cleaning time-sheets
• etc

Save time on training new employees

• Miratag keeps track of all the tasks that need to be performed periodically, including the need to monitor critical control points.
• Employees are notified when assignments are due by sending a push-notification to the phone.
• Daily list of the upcoming tasks is displayed in the apps calendar.
• Miratag monitors if tasks are left undone and can send out e-mail and SMS notifications to supervisors.

Access all the reports when you need them

• The data collected using mobile applications is sent to Miratag cloud environment.
• The online tool gives a good overview about temperature measuring results and any other data collected using the mobile apps.
• The reports can be exported to PDF documents and Excel spreadsheets.
• The online tool provides flexible options for configuring all the settings including report templates used in the mobile apps.

Provide limited access to store managers

• The online environment can be accessed by office employees, regional supervisors and store managers.
• Each user can only access data relevant to their own store and perform actions that they have been granted access to.

Receive e-mail and SMS notifications

• E-mailed reports provide a quick overview without the need to log in to the online environment.
• E-mail and SMS messages can also be used to receive notifications when:
  • assignments are left undone
  • a report, with a specific content, is posted (for example a cooler temperature is out of the normal range).