WorkKeys Practice Test 11

Compliance Notice

COMPLIANCE NOTICE CN-22-07

Subject: Temperature Excursions in Refrigerated Storage

Effective immediately, this notice supersedes CN-21-03. It applies to all staff who handle product labeled for storage at 2–8 °C in Cold Rooms A and B.

1. Monitoring. Each cold room is monitored by a data logger that records the temperature every 5 minutes. The logger alarms locally and sends a text to the on-call QA lead if the temperature is outside 2–8 °C for more than 15 consecutive minutes. Readings outside the range for 15 minutes or less are considered transient and require no action other than the end-of-shift review in Section 4. Facilities replaces logger batteries each January and July, and calibration certificates for each logger are kept in the QA office.

2. Excursions. An excursion is any reading outside 2–8 °C lasting more than 15 minutes. When an excursion alarm sounds, the first employee to respond shall (a) confirm that the door is fully closed, (b) record the time and the displayed temperature on Form TE-1, and (c) without moving product, apply a yellow HOLD placard to each affected rack. Product under HOLD may not be picked, shipped, or relocated until QA issues a disposition.

3. Product outside a cold room. Product that was outside a cold room during an excursion (for example, on a cart in the shipping area) is not affected by that excursion; however, the total time any such product spends outside 2–8 °C must not exceed 30 minutes per shift.

4. Shift review. At the end of each shift, the shift lead shall print the logger summary, initial it, and file it with any TE-1 forms. A missing summary is a reportable deviation.

5. Disposition. Only QA may release, quarantine, or destroy product under HOLD. Operations staff shall not discard product, even if it appears damaged, while a HOLD is in place.

6. Records. TE-1 forms and logger summaries are retained for five years. Remove all copies of CN-21-03 from posting boards. Direct questions to the QA lead.