Jean Hatton

we have lots of alarm calls from our monitoring company, when staff fill up stocks or audit reagents the fridge is open a bit too ling and the temp rises so they call us. I don't feell that we also need to challenge them. But we do also have local alarms if the temp rises for a short period so I think we are covered.

The whole point of automated monitoring is so that you don't have to do it. Ours is monitored 24 hours and we have 24 hour access on-line to all temperatures. We are called if an air temperature falls out of limit for more than 15 mins. We have air and core montored so we don't even think about temperatures too much unless we are called. The equipment is mapped and services annually.