Elements and Performance Criteria
- Set up refrigerated storage rooms
- Shelving or other appropriate material for storage of product is placed into refrigerated equipment rooms to allow even flow of refrigerated air throughout room and between products.
- Door/closing alarm system is checked to be fully operational.
- Lighting is checked to ensure safe working conditions within the closed room.
- On/off switches are checked to be fully operational to ensure that the cooling system is not inadvertently switched off.
- Air curtain or plastic strips across the door of the storage room is operational, to ensure minimal temperature fluctuations.
- Temperature probes or temperature data loggers are used to check and record temperatures of the storage room.
- Maintenance requests are made in a timely manner to appropriate personnel.
- Place product in refrigerated storage rooms
- Product is placed in the refrigerated storage rooms in a timely manner on its arrival at the workplace.
- Temperature of warm product is reduced before being placed in the refrigerated storage rooms.
- Product to be placed into the refrigerated storage rooms is checked to ensure that its label is intact and legible.
- Product without adequate labelling is set aside and reported to the appropriate person.
- Chilled or frozen product is placed on shelving or other appropriate system to ensure that correct air flow is maintained to keep product at the required temperature.
- Product is placed and stored in rooms on a 'first-in-first-out' (FIFO) basis and in a way that its label can be easily seen.
- Fresh product is stored in a way that ensures that there is no contamination from one product to another.
- Product is stacked on top of other product making use of load-shifting equipment and safe manual handling procedures.
- Maintain stock in refrigerated storage rooms
- Stocktake product
- Clean refrigerated storage rooms