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Pre-Start Check Sheet: Grains Weigh Up

by Mark Franke, from the Community

Use this pre-start check sheet to prepare grain weigh-up operations. Verify work area safety and cleanliness; confirm bins emptied and cleaned; inspect sieves, knives, and scoops; check sieve integrity and screens for foreign matter; ensure pallets are guarded; file traceability forms; clean and calibrate scales; store tools correctly; inspect ingredient tubs and Sulo bins; and capture supervisor signoff. Designed for food and grain processing sites aligning with BRC and GMP.

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Pre-Start Up Checklist: Ingredients Weigh Up
This pre-start up checklist helps food manufacturing teams verify safety and quality controls during the ingredients weigh up stage. It covers workplace safety checks, BRC-aligned quality steps, sieve integrity, tool condition, and screens free of foreign matter. It also confirms ingredient prep, traceability documentation, scale cleanliness, and correct tool storage, with supervisor signoff prior to production.
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Pre-Start-Up Check Sheet for Mixing Area
Use this pre start up check sheet to prepare a mixing area for production. Verify key safety controls such as mixer and hoist guards, lockout tag absence, and emergency stop condition. Check for housekeeping hazards including slips, trips, and falls. Confirm quality and hygiene steps: clean mixer, beater, lid, hopper, sieve integrity, dough skip and underside, and control panel. Ensure tanks and ingredient vessels are empty as required, valves are closed, lid seals are intact, and no foreign matter is present. Includes supervisor sign off.
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Foreign Object Bucket Checklist
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Pre-Start Up Check Sheet for Baking Area
Use this pre-start up check sheet to prepare an industrial baking area for production. It guides operators through critical safety and hygiene checks across moulder, prover, oven and depanner. Confirm guards and emergency stops are intact, verify no lockout tags or maintenance is in progress, and clear slip, trip and fall hazards. Assess cleanliness of shelves, conveyors and floors, remove waste dough and product, and check lights, covers and sensors. Includes supervisor sign off to document readiness and accountability. Ideal for food manufacturing teams standardizing start up procedures, meeting GMP and food safety expectations, and improving equipment reliability and product quality.
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Pre-Start Up Checklist: Ingredients Weigh Up

This pre-start up checklist helps food manufacturing teams verify safety and quality controls during the ingredients weigh up stage. It covers workplace safety checks, BRC-aligned quality steps, sieve integrity, tool condition, and screens free of foreign matter. It also confirms ingredient prep, traceability documentation, scale cleanliness, and correct tool storage, with supervisor signoff prior to production.

by Mark Franke, from the Community

10+

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Template

Pre-Start-Up Check Sheet for Mixing Area

Use this pre start up check sheet to prepare a mixing area for production. Verify key safety controls such as mixer and hoist guards, lockout tag absence, and emergency stop condition. Check for housekeeping hazards including slips, trips, and falls. Confirm quality and hygiene steps: clean mixer, beater, lid, hopper, sieve integrity, dough skip and underside, and control panel. Ensure tanks and ingredient vessels are empty as required, valves are closed, lid seals are intact, and no foreign matter is present. Includes supervisor sign off.

by Mark Franke, from the Community

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Foreign Object Bucket Checklist

This Foreign Object Bucket checklist helps teams document and manage foreign object findings across manufacturing sites. Record buckets and bins by area, confirm they are free from contamination, and maintain a monthly register for traceability. Support FOD programs and GMP compliance in food and grain processing by inspecting zones like premix, pre weigh, packing, control rooms, warehouses, and labs, and include glass spill checks where relevant.

by Anastasia Gornova, from the Community

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Pre-Start Up Check Sheet for Baking Area

Use this pre-start up check sheet to prepare an industrial baking area for production. It guides operators through critical safety and hygiene checks across moulder, prover, oven and depanner. Confirm guards and emergency stops are intact, verify no lockout tags or maintenance is in progress, and clear slip, trip and fall hazards. Assess cleanliness of shelves, conveyors and floors, remove waste dough and product, and check lights, covers and sensors. Includes supervisor sign off to document readiness and accountability. Ideal for food manufacturing teams standardizing start up procedures, meeting GMP and food safety expectations, and improving equipment reliability and product quality.

by Salendra Kumar, from the Community

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