Risk assessment for food safety
Food safety management should be accurate & need too much care on each stage that started from raw material to finish goods after storage process, foods safety and its care of the storage is necessary and more important that identify risk of the manufacturing area that risk need to identify and controlling to maintain quality of food product reason is that food’s end users are humans that any kindly harm can damage company reputation and possible that fetal problems can be created due to quality is down in food produced.
Simple steps for risk assessment:
Identify the risk
Frequently visiting, walk around all the plants and floor and identify what could reasonably be expected to cause harm to food products, or categorized as hazards in terms of food safety system. Ignorance the trivial and concentrate on significant hazard cause serious rejection of product.
Determine incident / event
Analysis team should ask the questions or discuss the issues occurred in the food plant floor, what really happen? Or what could happen at time and place? Identify possibilities of event occurred within the workplace.
Who is responsible and how?
It is not game of blame, but is matter of fact finding, the results depend on the fact finding and further analysis, plant improve as well personnel training is depending as appropriate outcomes from it.
Decide which product may be affected and how?
In the food industry, identify the product having the change of affects should have identified on priority by analyze the information related to product ingredients and other mixing elements. Team of the public, people you share your workplace with, if any change they may be affect product by your activities. Ensure that peoples who having limited works with production lines like cleaners, visitors and maintenance peoples who may not be workplace at all the time because it can be affect the production lines.
How can the risk be controlled?
Risk Assessment and determination of controls:
In the food industry identification of hazards is necessary or initial stage of the safety concern, once all hazards are identified, it is the responsibility of the safety team to evaluate the risks by using the specific tables or risk matrix and comply the risk prioritization for the completion of risk assessment for determination of control measures. When the risk assessment processes are finished, the control measures for the identified hazards should documented using the control measures.
Residual Rating:
Risk Assessment / Residual Rating
| Particulars | Risk | Mitigation | Risk Assessment level | Contingency Plan | Whom to communicate with |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Risk Level Possibility
| Level Rating | Risk Possibility |
|---|---|
| 0 | Not Likely |
| 1 | Less Likely |
| 2 | Likely |
| 3 | Moderate |
| 4 | Most Likely |
| 5 | Extremely Likely |
Review the risk by looking at the situation which the control measures implemented, has it reduced the risk to an acceptable limit? See below tables describe how to risk assessment needs to perform by simple analysis of each activity / performance:
Risk assessment is necessary to controlling on factors that affect on food chain or product quality. Risk assessment required controls fields are below:
- Process steps
- Hazard Details
- Hazard Analysis
– Probability
– Severity
- Control Measures in Place
- Probability of failure of Control measure
- Consequences in case of failure
- Feasibility of monitoring
- Specifically designed?
- Synergistic effects?
- Impact on hazard control?
- Position within food chain?
- Overall Rating
On base of the risk assessment, which part of the manufacturing unit / part of process are risk to critical situation can be raised. Risk assessment of food safety format is ready made available for download with below links:
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