Pre-Op Job Essay

I could say that I have an interesting job. All though it’s a really stressing job I guess it’s not as bad as being a line worker. When I took this job I did not know all the responsibilities that came with it. There’s a lot of paper work that comes along with this job. Also the fact that I have to deal with all the workers and their attitude. Overall I could say that I like my job and all the paperwork, the production work, lab work, and the early morning for pre-op.
Pre-op is the first thing that we do in the mornings, 2 of my co-workers and me go in to the plant and make sure that all the equipment is clean and sanitized for production to use. There’s about 8 rooms or areas that we have to inspect, but out of those 8 room we swap 5 of them which are the room that have direct contact with the product. The swabs that we do are to make sure that the rooms are being cleaned correctly. We do a complete walk through the plant making sure that everything is food safety ready. One we make sur that everything is clean, we then release the …show more content…
The swabs that we do in pre-op get plated onto a Petri film that, then gets up into an incubator for 48 hours. After the film being in the incubator for 48 hours we take it out and do a micro count. The micro count lets us know if the equipment was washed the right way. If one of the counts is over the limit we let the sanitation supervisor know that way he makes sure that it gets cleaned, then we re-swab the same area. When the re-swab the same area we now have a prof that the issue was taken care of. The swabs that we take get mad by one of my co-works or myself we go on the computer and pick out the areas that we want to swab, making sure that we don’t choose the same ones all week. After we write the site on the sterilized bag, we start making the swabs. We but a sterilized gauze in the bag and then but DE solution. DE solution is a liquid that makes the bacteria show up on the petri