Food Safety Risk

Food Safety Risk – Risk Ranger

From Food Safety Centre – the food safety information portal

Risk assessment is a crucial aspect of running a successful, safe food business. The risk assessment process involves methodically describing a food production system and identifying possible points of failure that could give rise to hazards.

An important objective of risk assessment is to provide information that will help the food manufacturer determine whether a pathogen is, or could be a significant hazard in their food production system and how best to prevent the hazard being realised.

Risk Ranger is a simple food safety risk calculation tool intended as an aid to determining relative risks from different product, pathogen and processing combinations. Risk Ranger provides a simple and quick means to develop a first estimate of relative risk. It is a generic but robust model that uses information about all elements of food safety to make risk calculations. READ MORE

Download the Risk Ranger (Excel file – 70 KB).