Elements and Performance Criteria
- Review mill plan and flow diagram to ensure all logistics and support services are correctly identified
- Ensure incorporation of grain and other materials receiving locations in mill plan
- Ensure incorporation of all grain, flour and by-product storage facilities in mill plan
- Review mill flow diagram for inclusion of all break and reduction system equipment and intermediate storage facilities
- Ensure incorporation of all administration, maintenance, utilities and storage areas in mill plan
- Identify directly milled and blended flour products in product flow diagrams and relate to storage and despatch facilities
- Support product flow through mill
- Review facilities and set operating procedures for grain receival according to mill requirements
- Ensure operators have required training and test materials for testing grain
- Ensure storage availability for received grain, including any divisions
- Confirm intermediate storage requirements based on forward production schedule
- Establish product handling, storage and despatch procedures for just-in-time customers according to safe work practices
- Establish product handling, storage and despatch procedures for daily, weekly or other regular deliveries
- Identify any non-standard storage and despatch requirements
- Establish and supervise inspection and cleaning regime for bins and silos
- Establish and supervise temperature and moisture testing for storage bins and silos
- Establish mill stock control system
- Integrate warehouse control and information requirements with mill management and control system according to workplace procedures
- Ensure customer orders are passed as soon as possible after receipt to production, storage, and transport departments
- Establish bin stock measuring frequency and method to meet mill stock control requirements
- Set and monitor weighbridge operation and recording procedures for all bulk inward and outward grain and mill products
- Identify locations for automatic and manual recording of internal product transfers
- Establish authorisation and access procedures for use of additives and adjuncts to meet mill stock control requirements
- Supervise blending of flours to meet orders
- Supervise internal transfer of flour to holding bins
- Determine if volumetric, on-line or batch blending is to be used
- Determine formula for required blend, including any required additives and adjuncts
- Specify flours to be used to most economically achieve required formula according to flour blending requirements
- Supervise blending operation, including data entry into batch or process control computer
- Supervise transfer of blended flour to packing, despatch or storage
- Supervise product despatch
- Set and monitor ‘give away’ margin above minimum weight in packed flour
- Supervise operation of bag and sack packing, and closing equipment
- Determine, where required, if enterprise or contract vehicles are to be used
- Oversee bag, sack and bulk flour despatch as appropriate according to workplace practices
- Supervise packing and despatch of by-products, including palletisation of wheat-feed according to workplace practices
- Manage work health and safety, mill safety, security and regulatory procedures for mill or area of responsibility
- Establish or review perimeter security according to mill safety standards and security regulatory procedures
- Confirm site access control point for all vehicle and pedestrian traffic
- Review adequacy of truck holding and turnaround facilities
- Establish or review site work health and safety plan and procedures
- Ensure personal protective equipment, pedestrian walkways, and other pedestrian safety procedures are known and followed
- Review fire protection plan and fire protection facilities, including location and type of extinguishers, suppression systems and alarms
- Review visitor reception, registration and escort protocols for visitor access to non-administration areas
- Establish compliance procedures for environmental, food safety and other regulatory requirements
- Review mill dust control procedures
- Review equipment and storage cleaning schedule and procedures for dust control effectiveness
- Arrange regular inspections for potential ignition sources to meet safety standards
- Review current dust control and dust explosion relief equipment and arrange for any required maintenance or additional dust control/dust explosion relief equipment according to manufacturers’ specifications
- Establish training in dust control procedures for all employees and contractors
- Manage pest control procedures
- Review site pest control plan to meet production and food safety requirements
- Ensure all employees are trained to identify signs of insect, rodent and bird infestation
- Establish inspection, sampling and testing regime for all equipment, storage areas and all inward and outward goods
- Determine cause and type of infestations
- Specify appropriate control measures for insect, rodent and bird infestation
- Supervise protection of employees, community and product during treatments
- Ensure compliance with regulations and environmental guidelines
- Establish pest reporting and treatment recording procedures
- Manage contractors for mill or area of responsibility
- Establish and maintain schedule of contractors and their capabilities for services not performed in-house
- Confirm procedures and delegations for engaging contractors
- Develop site access register for contractors according to workplace requirements
- Ensure contractors are briefed on all mill regulatory and commercial requirements