Storage and distribution facilities often get handed generic food safety templates built for manufacturing floors. This package was not built that way.

Every template reflects the day-to-day realities of receiving, storing, and moving food products, including the risks that are unique to your operation.

What Is Included in the Transition Change for Storage and Distribution?

1. Food Safety Culture Assessment Plan Template
   1. Your team works across receiving docks, cooler corridors, dry racking systems, and dispatch bays. Your culture plan needs to reflect that spread.
   2. This prefilled template is written for a distribution workforce, not a production line, covering shift communication, temperature accountability, and personnel engagement across multiple storage zones.
2. Management Review and Monthly Management Updates Template
   1. Edition 10 raised the bar on what your annual review and monthly updates must capture under clauses 2.1.2.1 and 2.1.2.2.
   2. This template gives you updated record formats built around storage and distribution performance indicators, including temperature compliance trends, supplier delivery non-conformances, and third-party service provider performance.
3. Change Management Procedure Template
   1. New under clause 2.3.5, and especially relevant when your operation changes storage configurations, takes on new product categories, or switches third-party logistics providers.
   2. This template gives you a documented procedure for evaluating those changes before they create audit findings.
4. Environmental Monitoring Risk Assessment Template
   1. This is where storage and distribution facilities get caught. This template is built specifically for your environment:
      1. Dry storage zones covering pest pressure, dust accumulation risk, and product segregation monitoring
      2. Cooler environments addressing condensation risk, temperature fluctuation zones, and pathogen monitoring near open product
      3. Frozen storage covering defrost cycle risk, door seal integrity checks, and zone-specific monitoring frequencies
      4. Open product areas where exposed food requires enhanced monitoring controls and documented risk justification
      5. Recouped product handling where repackaged or damaged product introduces contamination risk that must be captured in your monitoring program
5. SQF Storage and Distribution Edition 10 Change Document
   1. The official SQFI clause-by-clause reference showing every change between Edition 9 and Edition 10 for your operation.

Who Is This For?

• Existing SQF Practitioners and quality leads at warehouse, cold storage, and distribution facilities across Canada who are tired of adapting manufacturing templates to fit an operation that does not manufacture anything.