Safety / Food Processing

Making a profit in the food industry is more challenging than ever. Competition is keen; margins are fragile. Losing a key process, customer or employee can dramatically impact your business’ viability. The risks you face start with the products you accept, continue with the processing that you perform, extend into transportation and follow to end customer use/misuse. To avoid loss, you need a comprehensive risk reduction strategy designed to maximize your profit potential.

Our food safety team has specific experience in the food industry ranging from processing to packaging to wholesale and transportation. This experience includes staff members with production, as well as safety experience in the food industry. Our customer group includes cheese (dairy), meat, poultry, seafood, fruits, vegetables and juices, the snack industry, confection and coffee and wholesale operations, to name a few.

Our specialists:

• Can review all of your operation using our proprietary, state-of-the art hazard assessment tool Zurich Hazard Analysis (ZHA), designed for 360-degree view of hazards. ZHA can be applied to your whole operation or a specific area of concern and has further application to the process safety standard that applies to many operations in the food industry.
• Have product liability expertise and will highlight methods to reduce loss exposure, implement crisis management, develop and implement recall planning, analyze distribution issues, customer and vendor communication strategies, brand protection and the quantification of liability exposure.
• Have capability in Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) certification including verification and validation capability.
• Have certification from the Better Processing School at Davis, California.
• Can help you review and verify GMPs including sanitation procedures.
• Analyze fleet operations including cargo protection. We have various fleet safety training tools including loss data analysis, driver simulation and CD-ROM training that can be fit into your drivers’ busy schedule.
• Analyze workplace safety issues including return to work programs that impact your bottom line employee costs.
• Can access industrial hygiene and ergonomic specialists. This group is known for their pragmatic solutions to real world problems.
• Can assist with property conservation methods to assure protection of your facilities and product. This assistance starts with an analysis of the building/site arrangement, continues with analysis of protection systems and procedures in place and closes with a review of plans in place in the event of a significant loss event.
• Can assist with loss prevention procedures related to activities where customers or others are in proximity to your operations or services.