Glossary · Food cold chain
HACCP temperature alert escalation
HACCP temperature alert escalation is the process of notifying a responsible person when a temperature excursion breaches a HACCP critical control point, and automatically escalating to the next person — and the next — until someone acknowledges and the corrective action is recorded.
In practice
Closing the corrective-action gap
A walk-in cooler at a critical control point breaches its limit. HACCP temperature alert escalation notifies the on-shift responsible person first, in their language. If they do not acknowledge within the configured window, it escalates to the next person and then a supervisor — across SMS and voice, round after round — so the deviation is never left unattended. When a human acknowledges, my-iris resolves the alert and writes a timestamped record linking the excursion, the notifications, the acknowledgement and the corrective action — the documentation a HACCP plan and a food-safety audit expect.
A worked example
From CCP breach to verified corrective action
A sensor at the critical control point detects the limit breach and fires a webhook to my-iris.
my-iris notifies the on-shift responsible person, then climbs the chain across SMS and voice if no one acknowledges.
The acknowledgement and response are timestamped against the excursion — who acted, and when.
The trail is exportable evidence that monitoring and corrective action happened — for the HACCP plan and an audit.
HACCP escalation — frequently asked
Why does HACCP need escalation, not just an alert?
HACCP requires that excursions at critical control points are detected and that corrective action is taken and documented. A single unacknowledged alert leaves a gap: if the first person misses it, the deviation continues unrecorded. Escalation closes that gap by climbing the responder chain until a human acknowledges, so the corrective-action trail is never broken.
What does the escalation chain look like in practice?
my-iris sends the first notification, waits for the configured acknowledgement window, and if there is no reply it escalates — SMS to voice call, then to the next responder, then to a supervisor — for up to ~20 rounds. Each step, reply and resolution is timestamped, giving you the monitoring-and-corrective-action record HACCP documentation expects.
Does it integrate with our existing temperature monitoring?
Yes. my-iris sits on top of your sensors and monitoring system. Any platform that can fire a webhook posts the excursion to one REST endpoint, and my-iris handles routing, language, escalation and the audit record. It does not replace your monitoring — it makes sure the excursion reaches a human and is provable.
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