Juan DeVillena, operations manager for Wayne Farms LLC , provided an overview of the areas he considers to be part of “A Plant Manager’s Dashboard” during his presentation at USPOULTRY’s 2015 Poultry Processor Workshop , held at the S herato n hotel in Atlanta, Ga. DeVillena discussed sanitation, human resources and labor considerations, safety, regulatory aspects, production, yield and environmental aspects. “All of these areas are what goes thro ugh my mind and must be addressed daily ,” remar ked DeVillena.
In her presentation on “Sanitation...Lessons Learned,” Melissa Raybon, plant manager , Fieldale Farms Corporation, reviewed how the company controls Listeria monocytogenes in its processing plants. Raybon observed that the cleaning of equipmen t is essential and reviewed some of Fieldale Farms’ sanitation procedures. She described the zone cleaning system that the company has implemented and stressed the importance of verifying zone cleaning and freezer integrity on a monthly basis
Tom Sammon, project manager, Georgia Tech Manufacturing Extension Partnership, gave a presentation on “Team Member Safety” that focused on a safety - integrated process improvement approach . He observed that for most businesses, safety and health programs are competing with the operational functions of the organization and resources. Sammon reflected that a solution to this problem would be to integrate safety and health problem solving into the continuous improvement process
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