Risk Mapping

Q. When was the last time you had a fresh set of eyes over your entire manufacturing production line?

Q. Do all your team know the current food safety risks in the process – from incoming raw materials to outgoing finished goods?

Using the comprehensive skills of our team, alongside your knowledgeable production managers and operators, Produco will facilitate a complete assessment of food safety risks to your finished goods from start to end.

The Risk Mapping procedure is highly effective as well as being a straightforward and simple exercise to work through in a group situation.  The process is to walk the line together as a group and identify the risks at each point. From here, the risks are mapped out as a visual record (see Fig 1. below). All your team members get the opportunity to provide their valued and considered input to the location and nature of the possible risks to food safety control.

Working together, the identified risks are assessed and given a rating. The rating can be a simple Low-Medium-High risk scale or can be more complex, depending on your needs.

Once the risks have been categorised, an action plan is discussed and timeframes are assigned to manage the top to bottom priority risks and help you ensure control of your production.

Why get us involved in Risk Mapping?

Our service offers the opportunity for you to get an objective appraisal of the current “overall big picture” of the risks in your process. Our team has previously done the hard yards by living and breathing food safety in manufacturing environments for many years.  

How?

With fresh eyes and objective purpose to help you improve, we will spend time assessing the process, at each step, in real-time, alongside your capable production teams. Our team will manage the project on-site with minimal disruption, meaning your managers and operators can continue to do their daily tasks, yet still be a key part of the project and stay involved in the process.

The Benefits

The advantage of having our team come in is that we know the right questions to ask. We can spot gaps that might get overlooked in the day-to-day running of production.

We can help improve capability and resilience in your business by providing an honest and objective appraisal of the risks of your production.

Getting us to build you a risk map will bring valuable benefits. You will gain a thorough, clear understanding of your risk environment and how individual risks compare to one another. You can use this to strategically prioritise your risks and determine where to use your limited resources.

Outcomes

The final outputs, for you to keep and refer to, include a physical flow diagram (visual record) of the risk mapping process and supplementary report identifying risks and how they rank with recommendations and actions.

The report and feedback will consider the complexity of the production and all factors contributing to your production that could bring a food safety risk to your final product.

We’d love to discuss how risk mapping could work for your business – we offer a flexible, confidential, value-added and friendly service, in a timeframe that works for you.