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inadequate facilities decline in hygiene
for staff, no lockers standards.
provided to keep 10. Poor preventive
personal belongings. maintenance and
3. Food handlers may not calibration activities
receive proper training, lead to inadequate
leading to failures in temperature of
food safety systems. coolers and freezers
Companies which and other gauges
believe in spending leading to major non-
on training are very conformity especially if
successful in food temperature indicators
safety implementation are critical control
with a strong food monitoring equipment.
safety culture. 12. Major failures occur
4. Inadequate and whenever there is a
untrained internal critical control point
auditing team leads to deviation which can
irregular and lenient even lead to plant
audits which can shutdown.
create a false sense of Thus, it is important
security. to integrate quality
5. Poor redressal management (QM)
of corrective and strategically into operations
preventive actions of companies, it being
(CAPA) and identifying largely based on mutual
issues without root yet reinforcing principles
cause analysis and lead supported by a set of
to continuous failures. practices. Key in determining
6. Insufficient the quality objectives, policy
documentation and responsibilities of a
including poor record- wide range of sectors, QM is
keeping can hinder implemented through quality
tracking progress and assurance (QA), control,
improvement and planning,
identifying recurring providing emphasis to
issues. practice, especially if the
7. Hotels may become primary objective of the
too comfortable organisation is to achieve
with their current consistent product quality.
practices, leading to
For the audit to be
a lack of continuous effective, therefore, it has
improvement. to utilise components like
8. Failure to engage continuous improvement and
staff in the auditing learning, customer focus and
process can lead to a orientation, empowerment
lack of ownership and and teamwork, human
accountability. resource focus, quality tools,
9. Failing to conduct robust management structure,
regular follow-up strategic planning, leadership
audits can lead to a and supplier support.

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