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[mahogany5002]

How do i do a simole risk assessment

[Tony-C]

Hi mahogany5002,

 

 

Welcome to the IFSQN forums.

 

As you have posted in SQF Food, here is their guidance on Risk Assessments in Pre-requisite Programs:

 

The site should have a prescribed process for completing and documenting a risk assessment. The following 3 step process is recommended:

1. Identification of hazards at any location or process step. Similar to how a hazard analysis is completed within the food safety plan the site should consider any biological, chemical or physical hazards that could occur and importantly what can cause them. Using descriptions from preventive control methodology hazards that are reasonably likely to occur in the absence of controls should be considered.

2. Evaluate each hazard and how it might occur to determine if there are any controls that are being applied or can be applied to eliminate or reduce the hazard to acceptable levels. This evaluate is crucial so that risk can be assessed in the next step.

3. Estimate the risk of the hazards using a likelihood vs severity assessment or similar type of tool. The definitions for each level of likelihood and severity will be important so that it can be consistently applied. A measurement tool should be applied so that the output can definitively indicate risk level and thereby any appropriate control.

 

You need to define what the numbers mean in your assessment as per above. Attached is a an example of a simple 3 x 3 matrix.

 

 Simple 3 x 3 RA.png   149.4KB   0 downloads

 

Kind regards,

 

Tony

[MDaleDDF]

How do i do a simole risk assessmenD

 

Depending what it is you're assessing you could do it like me.   I have a bunch of tabs at the bottom of my Hazard Analysis in Excel, and whenever I do a RA, I just add another tab, and then I can pop up any RA an auditor wants to see, they're all in the same place, and they all look the same other than the outcome and synopsis of each.   Eazy peezy lemon squeezy....

[Bo16]

We just finished a GFSI audit and the auditor questioned my risk assessment, stating that it sometimes needs to be about what your a doing the risk assessment for, not always adverse health effects or food safety probability.

This make sense to me when the risk assessment is for something other than the food safety/HACCP plan.

What are you trying to assess the risk of?  Almost every item in the audit requires some type of risk assessment to determine frequency (Internal audits, GMP audits, vendor/contractor approval etc.), quality risk vs food safety risk etc.  

Maybe you would have number of findings, number of shipping errors etc.

[Bingo67]

Depending what it is you're assessing you could do it like me.   I have a bunch of tabs at the bottom of my Hazard Analysis in Excel, and whenever I do a RA, I just add another tab, and then I can pop up any RA an auditor wants to see, they're all in the same place, and they all look the same other than the outcome and synopsis of each.   Eazy peezy lemon squeezy....

What data so you have on the excel RA? Can you share the template?