Food Factory Site/ High Care Development

Designing or upgrading a high care food facility is a high-risk, high-investment decision. Getting it right from the start is critical to food safety, compliance, and long-term operational success.

Quality Associates supports food businesses to design and develop high care facilities that meet current regulatory expectations, manage microbial and allergen risks effectively, and operate efficiently in the real world. We bring practical, industry-tested expertise to help you avoid costly design errors, reduce commissioning delays, and build a site that is fit for purpose today and into the future.

This is for you if...

  • You are planning a new build or refurbishment and want to avoid design, layout, or hygiene failures that can cause delays, rework, or unexpected costs.
  • You need confidence that your facility will meet food safety, hygiene, and regulatory requirements for high care or ready-to-eat production.
  • You want a practical, efficient layout that supports clear flows of people, product, raw materials, and waste.
  • You need robust segregation and control measures to manage cross-contact risks, including allergens and microbiological hazards.
  • You want to future-proof your site by building in flexibility for growth, new product lines, or evolving regulatory expectations.

How can we help

High Care Facility Design Support That Meets Food Safety Standards

We guide you through zoning, flow, layout, and hygienic design so your site meets high care requirements and reduces contamination risk from day one.

Construction and Commissioning Support That Ensures a Safe Start-Up

We help you review materials, equipment placement, air handling, and environmental controls to make sure your build is compliant before production begins.

Site Readiness and Validation Support That Sets Your Factory Up for Success

We support you with risk assessments, cleaning validation, environmental monitoring plans, and pre-audit checks so your high care area is approved quickly and operates safely.

High care zoning for ready-to-eat food manufacture is an accepted, best-practice method to manage microbial risks including Listeria monocytogenes.

 Historically many manufacturing sites achieve an intermediate level of risk management, with the significant investment needed to upgrade facilities to the appropriate zoning.

We can prevent expensive mistakes and help you achieve a smoother transition to the appropriate level of risk management by sharing our best-practice insights across a wide array of manufacturing sites.

We can work with your engineering company or involve our engineering partners in your project, whether it is refurbishment or a new build.

The advice we can provide includes the layout of facilities, correct placement of floor to ceiling barriers, flows and management of people, product, raw material and waste, drainage and air handling.

In addition, we can advise on best practice allergen segregation and management required today to prevent cross-contact.

Why Choose Us

Expertise

Quality Associates is a well-established business with significant Tier 1 retail and manufacturing clients. The Quality Associates team have over 50 years combined experience here in Australia and around the world. We have vast experience in FMCG, food production, horticulture, food technology, supply chain management and foodservice.

 

In addition, we foster a culture of constant development of our own resources and the services we provide. We continually monitor the ever-changing food codes and research new and emerging technologies and developments from around the world to ensure the advice we provide our clients is accurate and up to date.

Quality Associates will tailor a quality solution specifically for your business. We provide staff who can work on your site or work remotely. No matter what the size of your business or project we can provide the level of expert resources required to complete the task efficiently and cost-effectively.
 
We understand that timeliness is crucial, particularly with product recalls, that is why we have structured our business so that we can react quickly to any situation that arises.
 
Our training is also available on-site or online.

We have worked for the major supermarket chains and understand the food safety standards set by the major retailers. In fact, in some cases, we help set those standards. That is why we can provide a vital insight into retailers’ requirements regarding system requirements, site requirements, people requirements and product requirements.

We continue to work closely with the major retailers and keep abreast of changes to their documented Quality Assurance Programs. We can provide professional advice on how your products can comply with these requirements to ensure that you can capitalise on more opportunities.

We have carefully structured our business to provide the optimum service to our clients. We are small enough that our clients can always speak to one of the directors of the business, yet large enough to provide a broad range of services that is well beyond the capabilities of a one-man consultant. We also have the resources to undertake even the largest project.

We always strive to provide professional, timely and cost-effective services to our clients. Our staff are trained to deal with your enquiries, promptly and professionally. We value the relationship that we have with all our clients.

We have worked for leading supermarkets and food manufacturers both here in Australia and around the world. We are proud of the positive outcomes that we have delivered for those clients, and we would welcome the opportunity to provide a similar outcome to your business.

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