THE ISOMETRIX
HACCP INSPECTIONAL APPROACH
Developed to meet the needs of users, IsoMetrix
software has been designed based on the structure of
the ISO 14000, ISO 9000, OHSAS 18000 and ISO 22000 (HACCP)
series of standards, giving users the confidence of
global acceptance.
With IsoMetrixs logical flow of information and
easy to use design an organisation can:
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Improve risk management |
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Enable clear communication across the
organisation |
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Facilitate external reporting |
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Increase efficiencies and reduce costs by
dramatically reducing time spent on data
capturing and reporting |
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Manage stakeholder and customer engagement
and meet corporate responsibility
expectations |
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Protect and enhance company reputation and
brand value |
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Reduce health, safety, quality and
environment risk and incident costs |
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Maximise the value of information |
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Quickly evaluate and understand the status
of risk areas |
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Manage risks across a group and across sites
(i.e. organisation level to site level) |
The IsoMetrix HACCP approach evaluates your products
and the production process. It also provides
assurance that you have determined the hazards
associated with the product and its processes as
well as the critical control points, and that you
are able to control them in some manner. HACCP is a
preventive, not a reactive, management tool. HACCP
is not a zero-risk system but is designed to
minimize the risk of potential hazards.
There are seven principles of HACCP:
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Conduct a hazard analysis and identify
preventive measures. (Prepare a list of
steps in the process where significant
hazards occur and describe the preventive
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Identify critical control points (CCP) in
the process. |
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Establish critical limits for preventive
measures associated with each identified CCP. |
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Monitor each CCP. (Establish procedures for
using monitoring results to adjust the
process and maintain control.) |
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Establish corrective actions to be taken
when a critical limit deviation occurs. |
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Establish a record keeping system |
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Establish verification procedures that the
HACCP system is working correctly. |
The basic use of this approach is to evaluate each
step of your manufacturing process, from receiving
components until distribution, and determine if that
process reduces or eliminates a potential hazard to
the finished device related to any one or more of
these three areas: biological, chemical, or
physical.
Once you have determined your CCP using IsoMetrix,
you then use the IsoMetrix HACCP Plan to look at
each CCP. For each CCP, you are required to define
the Critical Limits for each preventive measure and
outline what, how, how often, and who will monitor
these limits. You are also required to define your
corrective actions in the event that the critical
limits are deviated from, how the information will
be recorded, and, finally, how the CCP will be
verified.
The following is an example of how a manufacturer
could apply the IsoMetrix HACCP approach to review
operations and come up with a HACCP plan that
empowers users, providing instant access to
information where and when it is needed.
STEP 1: Prepare a detailed flow chart of the
operations.
STEP 2: Conduct a Hazard Analysis of the
materials and processes. Remember, this exercise
should be product and process specific, but you
could use the same Hazard Analysis for a family of
products that used the same operations for the most
part if new hazards are determined not to be
present.
The hazards that you are trying to determine and
that should be examined are: biological, chemical
and physical hazards.
STEP 3: Once you have determined the CCP, you
then define the HACCP Plan. This requires that you
define the following:
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Significant hazards |
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Critical limits for each preventative
measure |
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Monitoring procedures including: |
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What will be monitored |
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How it will be monitored |
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Frequency of monitoring |
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Who will do the monitoring |
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Corrective actions to be implemented if a
deviation from the critical limits are
observed |
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Records that will be kept |
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Verification of the process how you will
assure that the plan is working |
STEP 4: Implement the program.
STEP 5: Periodically review the HACCP Plan
and make adjustments whenever necessary.
This system provides the 3rd Party Auditing Body
with a clear, detailed map of the critical control
points of your operations. It indicates what the
company is doing to assure that these points are
being monitored, and what is done in the event of
deviation from these points.
Remember, this approach is not a stand-alone system.
In order to assure its success, HACCP must be built
on a strong SHE program. The main reason for this
approach is that it can be used to focus the 3rd
Party Auditing Bodies attention on the parts of the
process that are most likely to affect product
safety.
By being allowed to do this, the 3rd Party Auditing
Body can forego all the unnecessary learning
processes involved with each inspection and key into
the plan supplied by the company.
On the whole, the IsoMetrix HACCP Inspectional
Approach is one of great value to food, dairy and
beverage producers and suppliers of packaging to the
same. It ensures that a critical evaluation of your
operations occurs and determines what areas need
upgrading and what will happen in the event of
failure.
For further
information contact Steve Simmonds at:
Cell: +27 82 881 9389
Email:
ss@isometrix.com
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