Hazard Analysis Is Not a List of Everything Scary
Use severity and likely occurrence to decide which hazards belong in a HACCP plan.
A good hazard analysis earns the hazards it lists. The teach HACCP Principle 1 starts with hazard identification, but it does not stop there. The useful work is hazard evaluation: which hazards are severe enough and likely enough in this process that they need deliberate control? This is why a hazard analysis reads like evidence, not anxiety. It connects the ingredient, the process step, the equipment, the environment, and the consumer to a specific safety outcome. The mechanism Use two questions. First: if this hazard reaches the consumer, how serious is the harm? Second: given our product and process, is…
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