Sanitation Health Check – Evaluating Your Food Plant Sanitation
November 5, 2025
Production Lines Need To Start On Time
For food manufacturers, nothing drives profitability more than starting production lines on time—a reliability factor that can be worth millions of dollars in recovered throughput each year. In-house sanitation teams often struggle to deliver consistent, ready-for-start conditions, creating delays that compound across shifts and facilities. Outsourcing sanitation can relieve these pressures, restoring uptime, stabilizing labor, and unlocking additional production and profit.
But here’s the truth: not all outsourced sanitation teams solve these problems. The measurable gains come when sanitation is handled by a high-performance partner like Harrigan Sanitation Solutions, where the work is led by Trustworthy Teams, a proven system, and continuous improvement.
Why It Matters
In-house sanitation often gets in the way of on-time starts, shifting attention toward hiring, retraining, coverage gaps, and daily problem-solving instead of delivering the production conditions plants depend on. In the same way, an unreliable sanitation partner hands those problems right back to you—late start-ups, labor instability, and oversight gaps that erode profitability.
The result is simple: When sanitation slips, production slips. When sanitation thrives, so does the plant.
What Works
Here’s what works: a Trustworthy Sanitation Team engaged in continuous improvement. At Harrigan Sanitation Solutions, we’ve learned that real business value comes from engaged teams who consistently improve safety, speed, and reliability.
Our Crew Chiefs lead tightly aligned “Pit Crews” using systems designed to:
- Improve sanitation flow and uptime
- Strengthen compliance and audit readiness
- Reduce labor instability
- Lower sanitation cost while increasing production capacity
Reliable outsourced sanitation offers benefits that many plants simply can’t sustain internally: standardized training, consistent oversight, well-defined processes, and built-in accountability. Additional gains are realized when sanitation not only starts lines on time but, through continuous improvement, compresses “pit time” altogether—unlocking even more production and even more profit.
Our Purpose
Our purpose is simple: build individuals into Trustworthy Teams that deliver extraordinary results. And it works. One customer told us: “Since Harrigan has been here, we’ve hit our production numbers every day. Our teams are less worn out. Our supervisors wish your people were our people.”
The Bottom Line
Outsourcing sanitation doesn’t automatically guarantee performance. Partnering with Harrigan does. Fully engaged sanitation teams, backed by continuous improvement and modern food safety systems, unlock more uptime, safer operations, and real financial gains.
Contact us or reach Bill Harrigan at bharrigan@harrigansolutions.com.
See how your plant is performing—take the Sanitation Health Check.
