Practical resources built for food manufacturing engineering
The AFME Resource Library brings together practical templates, tools and working documents designed to support engineers across food and drink manufacturing. Here you will find resources covering maintenance and reliability, engineering audits, asset management, CAPEX and projects, health and safety, food safety and compliance, utilities and energy, automation and controls, engineering management, and people development.
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Practical engineering templates, audits, PM tools, maintenance regimes and management documents for food manufacturing.
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AFME-BRC-ENG-001 Engineering Department Food Safety & BRCGS Compliance Policy
A practical engineering compliance toolkit designed for food manufacturing sites operating within a BRCGS Food Safety Issue 9 environment. The pack provides engineering teams with structured, usable controls for maintenance, temporary repairs, hygienic design, contractor management, utilities, calibration, projects, building fabric and audit readiness. It is intended to help engineering departments demonstrate consistent food-safety controls and provide documented evidence of engineering activities. Which to use: this is the full, joined-up system. The stand-alone FSC-01, FSC-02, FSC-03 and FSC-06 resources are quick versions of forms F12, F01, F02 and F11 for sites that need a single form rather than the whole toolkit.
AFME-FSC-01 Engineering BRCGS Audit Readiness Pack
A walk-round checklist, evidence list and non-conformance tracker so the engineering department is ready for a BRCGS Food Safety audit, announced or unannounced. Engineering features in more BRCGS non-conformities than most departments realise: building fabric, equipment condition, temporary repairs, maintenance hygiene, calibration and foreign-body control all sit with engineering. This pack gives the team a structured way to check readiness, gather the evidence an auditor will ask for, and track gaps to close-out. Which to use: this is the quick pre-audit walk-round. For a full, scored engineering food-safety audit use the Engineering Food Safety Assurance Audit Pack (EFSA); form F12 is the readiness checklist inside the AFME-BRC-ENG-001 toolkit.
AFME-FSC-02 Engineering Hygiene Clearance and Hand back Form
A controlled handover of equipment and areas back to production after any engineering work, protecting product from foreign bodies and contamination. Any engineering work in a food production area creates a risk of foreign bodies, contamination or damaged hygienic surfaces. A hygiene clearance confirms that the area and equipment have been checked, cleaned where needed and accepted by production or hygiene before food is processed again. Auditors routinely ask to see these records. Which to use: this is the quick, stand-alone form. Sites running the full BRCGS engineering system should use form F01 Post-Maintenance Clearance and Release in the AFME-BRC-ENG-001 toolkit.
AFME-FSC-03 Temporary Repair Register and Tag
Control temporary engineering repairs so they are risk-assessed, visible, inspected and permanently fixed before they become a food-safety or audit finding. Temporary repairs keep production running, but uncontrolled ones become permanent and are a common audit finding. This pack provides a simple procedure, a register and a printable tag so every temporary repair is assessed, labelled on the equipment, checked each shift and closed with a permanent fix. Which to use: this is the quick, stand-alone version. Sites running the full BRCGS engineering system should use form F02 Temporary Repair Register in the AFME-BRC-ENG-001 toolkit.
AFME-FSC-04 Glass and Brittle Plastics Register and Breakage Procedure
Register, inspection record and breakage procedure for glass, brittle plastics, ceramics and similar materials in food production areas. Fragments of glass and brittle plastic are hard to detect and can cause serious harm. Sites are expected to minimise these materials in production areas, list and inspect the ones that remain, and follow a controlled procedure when something breaks. Many of the items, such as gauges, sight glasses, light covers, HMI screens and inspection windows, sit on engineering equipment.
AFME-FSC-05 Metal Detector and X-ray Daily Check Sheet
A daily performance and failsafe test record for metal detectors and X-ray inspection systems, with clear actions when a test fails. Metal detection and X-ray inspection are often critical control points, and their value depends on correct set-up, regular testing with the right test pieces and a reliable reject system. Test piece sizes, positions and frequencies must come from your HACCP plan and customer codes of practice.
AFME-FSC-06 Critical Calibration Register
Identify, calibrate and control the measuring devices that protect food safety and legality, with an in-house probe check record and an out-of-tolerance procedure. Measuring devices that monitor critical control points, legality or product safety must be identified, calibrated against a traceable reference and controlled. This includes temperature probes, oven and chiller sensors, checkweighers and scales, pressure gauges on processes and pH meters. When a device is found out of tolerance, the site must assess what product was affected since the last good check. Which to use: this is the quick register for critical devices. For a full calibration audit, instrument register and out-of-tolerance impact assessment use the MAI-02 Calibration & Measurement Assurance Pack; form F11 is the version inside the AFME-BRC-ENG-001 toolkit.
