Hazard analysis and preventive controls

Hazard analysis is where you work through each step of a product's process and record what could go wrong and how you control it. Crown structures the work, keeps your decisions in one place, and carries them into your PCP document. It lives under Food Safety in the main menu.

Before you start

An approved recipe for the product. Hazard analysis is built around the product's recipe stages plus the standard facility steps (receiving, storage, packaging, shipping, sanitation). A product needs an approved recipe before it appears in the product picker. See Your first recipe.

Working through the steps

Open Food Safety and select a product. Crown lays out its process as a series of steps, each shown as a card with its hazards. You have three ways to handle each step:

• Evaluate hazards: Crown proposes hazards for the step, which you then review.
• Add: author a hazard yourself.
• Mark as controlled: point the whole step at a prerequisite program rather than listing hazards for it individually (for example, a step fully governed by your sanitation program).

Crown QMSAI-proposed hazards, flagged as drafts for review

Recording a hazard

When you add or confirm a hazard, you record:

• Category: biological, chemical, or physical.
• Whether it's reasonably likely, with your justification.
• Severity.
• The preventive control, plus how you monitor it, the corrective action if it fails, and the verification activity.
• The responsible role.

A draft hazard becomes part of your plan when you Confirm it. You can Reject a proposed hazard that doesn't apply, with a reason.

Critical control points

A confirmed hazard can be marked as a CCP with a toggle. Crown records the designation and carries it into the preventive controls section of your PCP.

The matrix view

For a product with hazards across many steps, the Matrix view shows them as a single grid of hazard against process step, so you can see where the same concern recurs and confirm or reject related entries together.

What's next

Confirmed hazards and their controls flow straight into your preventive control plan. See Generating your PCP document, and Setting up a prerequisite program for the programs a step can be controlled by.