Vulnerable points first
The standards ask you to identify the points where product could be reached and restrict those specifically. A site-level badge does not answer a room-level question.
Food defence · IFS · BRCGS · FSMA IA
Areas restricted to authorised persons, with the evidence to show it
IFS, BRCGS and FSMA intentional adulteration rules ask you to identify vulnerable points and restrict them to authorised persons. Contractors and visitors are controlled at those points, and never only at reception.
Food defence
Food defence access control and zone restriction
What it demands of physical access
Areas restricted to authorised persons, with contractors and visitors controlled at the identified vulnerable points.
Areas restricted to authorised persons, with contractors and visitors controlled at the identified vulnerable points.
What you put in front of the auditor
Zone-level restriction per person, and contractors pre-qualified before they ever reach the floor.
Zone-level restriction per person, and contractors pre-qualified before they ever reach the floor.
In detail
What this means at the door
Authorised persons, named
Restriction has to be to authorised persons, which means the authorisation exists somewhere as a record. With the training that justified it and the date it ends.
Contractors and visitors at the point itself
Control at reception is not control at the mixing room. The population that matters most here is the one that changes fastest: agency, seasonal, cleaning and maintenance.
Evidenced for a specific day
The audit question is rarely 'do you have a plan'. It is 'prove it worked on this date, for this room, for this person', increasingly unannounced.
How Axxession answers it
Evidence produced as it happens
- Zone-level authorisation per person for the lines and rooms they work in
- Hygiene and defence training verified before access exists, loaded by the agency itself
- Assignment end dates carried on the record. Access closes without a supervisor closing it
- A point-in-time answer for any date: who could enter which room, with which training
Sectors
Where Food defence bites hardest
Axxession gives you the records Food defence asks for, ready to show an auditor. Compliance itself also rests on your own policies, risk assessment and controls. Nothing here is legal advice.
Questions
Frequently asked questions
What do IFS and BRCGS require for access control?
Both expect identified vulnerable points to be restricted to authorised persons, with contractors and visitors controlled at those points and the restriction evidenced. The emphasis is on the specific zones where product could be reached, and never on the site perimeter alone.
Is uniform colour an acceptable zoning control?
It is a visual convention, and not a control. Anyone who puts on a different coat. Auditors increasingly want the restriction enforced at the door and recorded per person.
How do we handle seasonal agency intake?
The agency loads worker details and completed training before anyone travels. Access is scoped to the lines and rooms in the assignment, with its last day already on the grant.
The first step
Start with 1 site and 1 population.
You judge something that runs on your own site. Your access systems and readers stay where they are. If it earns its place, we extend it site by site.
One siteOne populationYour readers stay