Xccelerated Mobile Deployment - XMD
PenFact, Inc.
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Public Health & Safety; Regulatory Compliance & Homeland Security XMD Software
Gives Public Instant Web Access to State Health Inspection Scores The State of Vermont Health Department, as part of Vermont’s Healthy Vermonters initiative, uses XMD Software to inspect all food handling facilities in the state, issue on the spot reports to the owners, automatically schedule reinspections, post the facilities’ scores on its website, and to conduct separate Homeland Security Inspections of the same facilities. The State of Vermont Department of Public Health is charged with inspecting and certifying the compliance with the State Health Statues and Regulations of all producers, preparers and sellers of food in Vermont, ranging across the spectrum - restaurants, manufacturers, ski lodges, bed & breakfasts, camps and push carts. It uses XMD Software to conduct and record the results of each inspection. Using the results, XMD calculates a score, which can range from 1 – 100, and which is posted on the web for public access. Using XMD on Fujitsu pen tablet computers, the sanitarians, as the inspectors are called run through compliance with standards ranging from freezer temperatures to cleanliness, sanitization, and sewage and refuse disposal. XMD takes the results and produces a report issued on the spot the owners. An establishment may receive a passing grade, but still have a “critical violation” of one or more standards. Critical violations must be corrected with a day, or the State could shut the facility down. The State was able to add Homeland Security food safety inspections to this system simply by adding an electronic form that the sanitarians also complete while at the site. Using XMD’s Design Console the form was authored quickly and automatically downloaded to the sanitarians’ tablets the next time that they uploaded the days’ work. Without additional cost, this entirely new function doubled the value delivered to the State by each sanitarian. Using a docking station or network connection, each sanitarian uploads the days’ results to the States custom database – and to its website. The website not only lists the most recent scores and inspection dates for every food handling establishment in the State, it also contains the sanitarians’ comments about failing grades and for violations or critical violations of any standard. The sanitarians select these comments from picklists - preconfigured lists of comments applicable to a particular standard – and XMD automatically uploads them to the web so the public better understands the nature of any violation – e.g., Poisonous and toxic materials must be properly stored, labeled, and used.” XMD also self manages scheduling. Each sanitarian receives his/her schedule for the next day while connected to the database. XMD schedules in real time, so that, for example, if a restaurant has a critical violation, XMD will assign and schedule a sanitarian to revisit the restaurant the next day to see whether the violation has been corrected. Not only does the public now have instant web access
to the latest scores for grocery stores, bakeries, candy makers, and other
food handling establishments, but the State no longer spends money on
mailing or faxing each days’ results for the sanitarians back to
Burlington, the State capital. No longer does the State spend money having
the information on those paper forms typed into its database. Nor does
the State pay someone to schedule inspections. The public reporting and
the scheduling is all automatic. And, the sanitarians not only are able
to cover the ever increasing numbers of food handling facilities in Vermont
without adding personnel, but they do so while conducting the entirely
new Homeland Security food safety inspections, too. Click here for an application note on ISO 9000 compliance Click here for an application note on environmental safety & compliance. Click the Back button on your browser's'
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