Production staff
Plus a large agency and seasonal population
Authorised only
Authorised persons only, and provably
Food defence is not about locking the site. It is about being able to name who could reach the product. Agency workers, hygiene training and zone restriction, recorded as they happen.
Food Manufacturing
Food defence access control and zone restriction
Authorised persons only, with the proof to show it
Who is on your sites
Overnight cleaning crews
In the plant when almost nobody else is
Maintenance and engineering
Own and contracted, in every zone
Certification auditors
Increasingly unannounced
What you are held to
Food defence · IFS · BRCGS
- Vulnerable points identified and restricted to authorised persons
- Contractors and visitors controlled at those points, and not only at reception
- Hygiene and defence zoning enforced per person, and evidenced
Where it breaks today
- Temporary staff are onboarded at the door by a line manager who needs the line running
- Zoning is enforced by the colour of the coat, which is a control anyone can defeat
- At an unannounced audit, 'who could enter the mixing room last Tuesday' takes days to answer
An auditor does not ask whether you have a food defence plan. They ask you to prove it worked on a specific day, for a specific room, for a specific person.
Food Manufacturing
Scenario
60 agency workers for the seasonal peak
The peak starts in 2 weeks, the agency will send names next week, and the audit body may arrive at any point during it.
The agency does the onboarding
Worker details and completed hygiene and defence training arrive from the agency before anyone travels to site.
Zone by zone
Each worker is authorised for the lines and rooms they work in. The vulnerable points stay closed to everyone else.
The contract end is the expiry
Access is created with the last day of the assignment already on it. Nobody has to close it afterwards.
The audit answer is standing by
Who could enter which room, on which day, with which training, available for any date in the peak.
What changes
- Seasonal intake stops consuming supervisor time on the first morning of the peak
- Restriction to authorised persons is enforced at the door instead of by uniform colour
- An unannounced audit is answered from a screen while the auditor is still in the room
Compliance
The regimes behind this
Questions
Frequently asked questions
How does Axxession support IFS and BRCGS food defence requirements?
Vulnerable points are modelled as zones and restricted per person, and never per site, with hygiene and defence training checked before access exists. The evidence that the restriction worked on a given day, for a given room, is recorded as it happens.
Can an agency onboard seasonal workers before they arrive?
Yes. The agency loads worker details and completed training through its own portal login. Access is created with the last day of the assignment already on it.
Can access be restricted to individual production rooms?
Yes. Authorisation covers the lines and rooms a person works in. Identified vulnerable points stay closed to everyone else.
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