Working to BRC audit standards
Food factories audit against BRCGS Food Safety (or SALSA, or an equivalent). The scaffold doesn’t appear as a line item in that standard, but everything around it does — foreign body control, hygiene segregation, contractor management, allergen controls. We’ve worked in enough audited sites to know where the auditor will look and what they’ll expect to see.
The things that matter most on audit day:
- Evidence of foreign body control — every fitting accounted for, every tool tethered, every dropped item logged and retrieved
- Clean handover documentation — when the scaffold came out, what was cleaned, who signed it off
- Contractor induction records — food hygiene training, site induction, PPE compliance
We supply all of that as standard. Our opening foreign body register, closing reconciliation, and hand-over cleaning signoff goes straight into your contractor file.
Programme planning around production
The biggest practical constraint is almost always the production programme. Erection and strip have to fit inside windows that might be 4-hour sanitation breaks or 48-hour weekend shuts. We’ll scope the job carefully at survey stage so we know exactly how much scaffold goes up per window, and we’ll run multiple crews if we have to, to compress the programme into what you can actually give us.
Get in touch early — the earlier we’re in the programme conversation, the better the result.
