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South Texas Behavioral Monthly Dietary Department Safety Meeting Purpose: • To provide procedures for ensuring pots and pans are properly sanitized before being reused. Department present: • Dietary Department Summary of discussion: Mandatory dietary department monthly safety meeting discussed proper sanitizing of pots and pans. Dietary Director Dorothy Cantu explained verbally that sink No. 1 is a wash sink, Sink No. 2 is a rinse sink and in Sink No. 3 sanitizer in hot water must be prepared. She explained clearly that sink No. 3 is the sanitizing sink. She explained that she wanted sink No. 3 to have enough sanitizing solution to read 200 PPM. Testing of sanitizer in water must be done with Hydrion Papers QT10. Mandatory testing 3 x per day and 1 container of 100 strips would last for one entire …show more content…

And that testing solution should have a ph of 7.5 or lower. If results were less than 200 PPM more sanitizing agent needed to be added and then rechecked. If results were more than 300 PPM more water needed to be added and then checked again. Once sanitizing levels were checked they needed to be indicated on the log form. Lastly, she went over wearing of proper slip-resistant shoes in kitchen. Outcomes: The dietary staff received oral explanation, educational handouts, and were allowed to provide verbal feedback to the Director of the Foodservice kitchen about the following plan to make sure that sanitizing of pots and pans was done efficiently and effectively. All dietary staff employees were present at the department meeting. Director of Foodservice kitchen was clear and explained pots and pans procedures accurately. Staff received instructions well and were motivated and encouraged to wash, rinse and sanitize pots and pans correctly. Effectiveness of meeting: • The dietary department workers are now using each compartment sink for its individual purpose. Wash, Rinse &

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