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[summargirl]

Hello,

 

My team has asked me what the risk is to having a electric pallet jack on the mezzanine. I was hoping I could get some insight on what the risk would be to food. The electric pallet jack would be on a mezzanine that does not have a lot of room. The mezzanine has two conveyors on it, a lot of expensive equipment and a space between the two conveyors where they would like the pallet jack to be bringing pallets of ingredients through to the process. Let me know what you think.

 

Kindly,

 

Sam

[GMO]

It's a bit difficult to tell but my main concerns from what you've described are more health and safety, i.e. the space sounds tight and likely to result in damage to the conveyors or to the employees.  Of course you could also have damage which results in a food safety risk as well but the health and safety and economic risks seem quite front and centre.

 

I'd go back to the three hazards for HACCP, chemical (including allergen), physical and biological.  Would the action, the layout and the behaviours encouraged by it all result in greater food safety risk with that truck being present?  Are there alternatives which might work better?  

[G M]

The physical restraints and controls that prevent foot traffic from causing contamination should be effective against a powered or unpowered pallet jack too, assuming it is not a stacker or lift type device that can extend beyond the control of kick plates and the like.

 

Like GMO suggests it sounds more like a personnel safety issue.