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SALSA approval is granted to food businesses who are able to demonstrate to an approved auditor that they are able to produce safe and legal food and are committed to meeting the requirements of the SALSA standard ongoing.
A control measure is generally described as those actions that can be taken to eliminate or reduce the likelihood of exposure to the hazard or the severity of exposure should it occur, or both.
Risk is defined as the likelihood or probability of a hazardous event occurring combined with the severity or consequence as shown in this article.
A hazard is defined as something with the potential to cause harm and for the harm to occur, someone or something must interact with the hazard.
Risk Assessment and Hazard Identification – if the organisation doesn’t know what the hazards are, or fails to identify them, control measures maybe missed.
A permit to work system is a formal written procedure which is designed to give greater control over tasks that involve inherently higher risks.
A risk assessment is a careful examination of the things in a workplace or activities associated with an organisations operations, which have the potential to cause harm.